New Patchwork Satchel

I love it! Its just perfect;) I am absolutely in love with these new bags. How much fun I am having using random scraps and piecing it all together ! I will be spending the next month getting ready for my show at the Nevada Museum of Art and I cant wait to add these to my collection of bags to display! I am very excited.

Busy Busy!!

I am planning on doing what I can with the black flower bag today, but my schedule has been so full the last few days that I haven't had much time to work on anything for my shop. I am just about to make the liner and should be able to get it done today, hopefully.

I have a quilt meeting tonight and would like to bring my pet portrait to share and it is no where near done:0, but it is a start. I am working on the bleaching of the fabric now for the dog and will be applying that today.

Another project: I was inspired by my mother in law to try a traditional quilt for the fall, this will be my first. We are doing the same quilt and should be fun to see what each of us comes up with and share them when they are done. I picked out some fabrics yesterday and will be working on it in my spare time. Here is a a picture of the mini quilt I will be doing in this magazine.

I also started weight training again and will be adding that into my schedule as well. Yesterday was "Day One". It's lots of work, but I am excited about getting back into shape again and feeling good. It's been so long that I forgot how much I love it!!

Hurry Up and Grow

The first bloom appeared on my sugar snap peas today and that means only one thing:) ....Peas will be arriving real soon. Everything is starting to take off and things in the garden are looking good. This has been the easiest thing to grow so far. I am having a problem right now with something eating my sunflower tops and making all my zinnia flowers leaves look skeletonized. What a waste! I am not too happy about this. That is the very reason I started growing and planting excessively. I don't use pesticides so not everything survives and to avoid too much disappointment I grow more than I need and it has been working out so far. Once the plants get a good size, the pests usually don't bother them anymore. Its this in between stage when everything is tender that they get chomped and I wish they would hurry up and grow!

Whats happening with my latest project? Well, I applied stitching around the bird and I am beginning to sew around each leaf now. It is progressing slowly but I am hoping to get much more done tonight.

Progress

I am starting to think about a border now and thought it would be nice to add multiple colors in random sequence around the picture. I will start to stitch everything shortly and will add details to the bird, like his legs,wings and eyes.

Random Project

Not sure where this idea came from. I visited a friend this afternoon who is a big inspiration to me! She gave me some great advise on the girl in the garden fabric collage I was working on last week so I will be attempting to quilt it soon. I don't consider myself a quilter but I do like the art quilting and love to experiement with fabric collage. I was thinking about a butterfly project today and suddenly I thought of this image. I am making the tree out of some scrap leather I just used on another bag in progress and I am finally using the pinking sheers I bought to create some flowers and leaves. The leaves in the tree are a combination of leather, ultrasuede, denim and upholstery. I painted the background in a golden yellow adding texture and was thinking of applying some copy in some bright colors. This is a combination of a couple sketches I had drawn up a long time ago so I am glad I am playing some more. I didn't really plan on doing a project like this and it is completely random, I have to say that even without thinking the paints ended up in my hands and I had to just go with it.
This will more than likely become a wall hanging. It is amazing at where a little inspiration will take you.