My saviour, my dishwasher

According to Riscy. 

I eventually found some black electrical tape to assemble the template for one of the background elements (fingerprint) in my new piece 'Imprint':

 
Not very exciting at this stage unfortunately.

I normally prefer to keep my mess confined to my workroom,  however it seems I am incapable of getting up from the cosy couch recently.

So if Claire won't move to her workroom, the work must move to Claire.  I have set myself up, temporarily, at the dining room table so I have easy acess to music, movies, tv and, most importantly, heating.  Already it has been effective, I am happy to get up of my butt and work.

Tonight I want to talk about something that has revolutionised my life. 

 
Yes people.  It is the dishwasher.  I almost don't know what to do with myself now I'm not procrastinating about dishes and stressing over the state of the kitchen and waiting for Riscy to bail me out when it got out of hand.  The most depressing thing about dishes is they they never stop, it was all so tedious.  Not anymore.  Life is sweet.

Template for the fingerprint background of my new piece Imprint

One of the things I recently learnt about being a Type A personality is that we don't particularly like to dwell in the the planning phase of a project.  I do like planning and plotting, but it must be a short in duration.  I am a woman of action and adventure... although the action and adventure should also end fairly quickly or I'll lose interest and move onto the next thing ;-)

These three came from a set of tiny scribbles I blogged about in March last year.  They are fairly simple compared to the other two pieces and I think they would hang together nicely as a triptich.   I suspect that I'll be keen on 'simple' after cuting the other two designs out, so I have no problem including them in my Batch of Five. 

Ok, so Yippeeee.  I'm into the next phase.  Choosing fabrics and dyeing if required.  I'm actually hoping my tiny stash will do the trick.  It is far too cold to dye here at the moment!

And a Triptich.

Spooky

Design 2 - Loy Yang.   This is a design I have been working on (on and off) for months.  I think the final piece will actually be quite psychedelic in colour - greens, blues and oranges.

I am planning to make this quilt quite large. Just for fun.  I feel this piece could come across too earnest or something if I do a plain two colour treatment.  I got sick of presenting plain black and white cutouts here on my blog so I've started using different colours here... not because all my next works will be brown, I just prefer looking at a softer cutout image.

Can you see I am getting more and more ambitious with my plans for cutting.  We are talking serious scissor time here.

Loy Yang is one of three brown coal fired powerstations in the Latrobe Valley.  Loy Yang Power Station is closest to my town.  Apparently Loy Yang means Big Eel in the local Aboriginal language ... and Traralgon (the town where I live), means River of Little Fishes, which is where I got the name for this blog :-)

So far, my idea of creating my work in batches is going well.  I have taken some serious time with the computer and my photgraphs and the ideas have started to develop and flow properly,  which doesn't happen if I go at it in fits and starts.  The funny thing is that the more I look into my stock of photos the more I see, even  from the same series of photographs:

 
Aren't these clouds fantastic! The same clouds were also present in the photo I used for the cutout for Loy Yang but they detracted from my main purpose there.   For those who are wondering, I played with contrast then inverted the image to get the glorious orange.  I then coloured the ground blue for contrast.

Cutout design for Loy Yang