Sunday Art Work Mom and Amy and Alcohol inks

What a fun Sunday. We had a mini art show when Mom and Amy came for dinner. They spent this afternoon exploring their new found favorite medium--alcohol ink. They are working on acetate and are looking forward to using some sort of masking materials. I don't have much of a clue how it all works but they do and that is what counts. Hope you enjoy the pretties.

Amy's painting in progress. She didn't have enough time to finish today, but is excited to work on it soon. 

This is a closeup of part of Amy's painting above. It shows the detail.  Amazing detail isn't it?

This is Mom's work in progress. She used alcohol inks for the background and then will paint the elephant.

This is Mom's first alcohol ink painting. I wish my phone camera could capture all the nuances of color. Maybe my new phone will produce a better picture. It is so pretty in real life.

Here is a closeup of all the detail in Mom's painting. Amazing is all I can say.

This one is Amy's first alcohol ink painting. The detail is easier to see because you guessed it -- a closeup.

Another Little Dress for Africa

Another Little dress for Africa made with love by Mom, with an extra large pocket because mom said she always loved to have a pocket for treasures. She has made many of these dresses and now excited to make many more in the near future. A family from our Quilt Guild will be traveling to Africa and will hand deliver dresses and shorts. Mom is branching out to make shorts too as soon as we get the details. Yay Mom

Another adorable dress 

NYE Mystery -- Suggestions for quilting the 9 patch blocks

Today is a pretty Carolina sunny day. Am waiting for kids and mom for Sunday dinner. Dinner is in 3 crock pots. So just a few last minute chores and we will be ready to enjoy. 

This is the top my daughter pieced from our current New Year's Eve mystery. I am finally getting around to quilting it. The backing is the same blue paisley fabric. I love her fabric choices. Mine is top is not nearly as wonderful. My fabriccs were from my stash and her's was brand new. In fairness Jen didn't have any fabrics that would have worked so she really did need to go and purchase new.

I have quilted the sashing and like it so far. but I cannot decide what to do in those 9 patches. Any suggestions? Any suggestions? I would appreciate your input.

Love the sub patterns especially these cute polka dot squares.
Happy Sunday,

Quilted chair cover

Our middle daughter Amy needed a chair seat cover for her burgundy leather recliner. I an happy with the quilting and had a ball with the free flowing patterns.  The deep burgundy color was not captured in the late afternoon sunlight, but I love the color in the picture too. The piece is about 33"x34".

Orca Bay Mystery Quilt Progress on December 8th

 Clue 1 was 224 quarter square triangle units. They were fun but pretty overwhelming to begin with. I just kept matching them up and before long they were all done and ready to go. I started using the strips and sewing pairs together but wound up using triangulations. I don't really have scraps to speak of and have taken the challenge to use fabrics only from my stash. So far so good.

 Clue 2 is made up of 72 string pieced blocks. They are the cutest little things and I can see why people get addicted to making scrappy things....I can see placemats, wall hangings and window treatments in my future. Yay for scraps!!

Clue 3 are half square triangles 350 units--I made 360 since I used Triangulations and did 15 pages of 24 units each. Love Triangulations. I am happy with the number of fabrics I have. Some day I will do a full on scrappy quilt, but this is a wonderful way to delve into the Scrappy Kingdom.

You are welcome to join the festivities, you can find us at http://quiltville.blogspot.com/p/orca-bay-mystery.html

We have people from Norway, the Netherlands, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, South Africa and the UK in addition to lots of us here in the States all participating in the challenge.

Hope you check out Bonnie's blog with all the pictures we are posting each week.

Till next time...

Orca Bay Mystery Quilt Progress

I am participating in my first ever Mystery Quilt. Bonnie Hunter is an amazing, talented and generous quilter. She is also the Queen of Scraps. Every November she hosts a mystery quilt challenge.
The exciting thing is that this is a scrap quilt with many, many little pieces.
I have been saving scraps for over thirty years in hopes of doing something with them...someday.
Someday is here and I am enjoying the challenge.
My colors will be purple, pink and green with beige backgrounds.
Progress is pictured above.
You are welcome to join the fun, you can find it here: http://quiltville.blogspot.com/p/orca-bay-mystery.html

More little dresses for Africa

Mom has been at the sewing machine again and look what she has created. One cuter than the next. These will surely bless two little girls somewhere!!