Masking Tape Collage: left overs from a painting

Number 1:  I found the missing quilt tops in my box of handspun yarn.  So I'm happy now :-)

Number 2:  Dijanne reminded me to mind my values.  Yes the fundamentals.  And yes I had neglected them.  So even though I had decided to ditch the purple fabric already, the choosing of the new background was a bit more focussed than it would otherwise have been. Thanks Dijanne.

Below is a progress shot of the laying out of the quilt.  I was trying to get things square at this point! 

Number 3: Today we picked up the drawing by Ilse van Garderen which I purchased recently.  It is now hanging in our lounge/dining room.  We are thinking it needs to have a spotlight.... The house stuff never ends.

Number 4: I have three quilts ready to ... quilt.  How exciting!!  How scary.   Quilting used to be my favourite, most prideful quilting thing.  But now I have adoped these spare applique quilts to explore, I am petrified about how to proceed.  I used to love encrusting my work in stitching ... layers of stitching.  But I can't do it to these quilts.  This is the real struggle for me.

 

Number 5:  It is raining.  A wondrous miracle... even for us here in Gippsland. It has been a very dry spring.

Number 6:  I ripped up the painting I had been working on, I'm going to continue to draw and paint onto the ripped up paper then sew it into a book... eventually :-)  I had taped around the edges of the paper with masking tape, I cut it away today then collaged it into my journal:

Number 7:  We mulched half the garden this weekend.

Number 8:  The next couple of weeks are going to be crazy at work, an unfortunate, but unavoidable fact.

Number 9:  Riscy is finally getting us geared up for a summer of kayaking :-)  Hopefully there we will be practicing our capsizing rescues this week on the Hazelwood pondage.

Number 10:  I have been knitting up a lace shawl:  Peacock Feathers Shawl, a pattern by Fiddlesticks Knitting  It is quite absorbing until I make a mistake and need to unpick.  I'm ignoring the fact that I need unpick a row or two now, before I can proceed. 

Number 11:  I have also washed, carded and I'm currently spinning some yarn to finish up the Elizabeth Zimmerman Yoke Jumper I started earlier this year.  I want to finish it so I can start another spinning/knitting project.

Half layed out

Three quilt tops ready for quilting