Busy-Busy

It's not that I've had nothing to blog about, I've just been BUSY! Busy with the business of quilting. I was overstaffed the last 3 days I was scheduled to work at the hospital, but I've been working every day on customer quilts. I turned 3 quilts over to Margery Waggood on Sunday. They all turned out well, & she was very happy.

Last Thursday my Calendar Girld group met at Margaret Gingerich's. Here she is showing a piece she did in a class recently.

She wasn't quite happy with it. We discussed it, & thought maybe a bit of green in the upper left corner might make it better balanced, so she thought she might have some beads that would work.
She also did this , inspired by a photo she took of some lichen.

Her husband Nelson, took a class on inlaying in wood. This was his piece.

It was so light & smoothe. It was amazing.

Friday I had Kate & Boots, 2 of my Embellishment students over for a catch -up class. We squeezed into my studio & played for a few hours.

Boots used all sorts of techniques she had never tried before. We all had a lot of fun.

I did another book cover collage, layering it togehter for my demo, then quilted it later.

It's from my own hand painted fabrics.

I did a lot of heavy quilting on it. Minuscule feathers around the edge are less than an inch wide.

I also finished quilting my friend Kate Gardner-Chandler's yellow-black & white quilt. My eyes felt strained after quilting white on all that yellow. I had trouble seeing what I was doing.

I practiced my feathers a lot on this quilt, & I see a big improvement.

I have to say thanks Deb G. for recommending Kim Brunner's DVD. It worked! I really thought I knew what I was doing, then I watched her DVD & learned a lot in the first 10 minutes! I was amazed.