Stashbusters

Each Month we receive two colours and of a word of inspiration which we can use if we need to.  The piece is 8" square.  

January - rusty orange & lavender and the word was circle..

February - we had red and dark blue - didn't use the inspiration word - can't remember is now.

March - olive green and sun yellow.  Inspiration word eludes me.

April - rusty orange and brown.

May - Sky blue and forest green.

June - Indigo blue and brown.

Enjoying this challenge - some months it's easy & other months, the inspiration 

comes slowly.  Thanks to Brenda Wood - 2Sew Textiles for making this so much fun.

 

Hi Again!

It's always hard to fit everything you want to do into a very busy life.  I've finished my stint as President of Qld Quilters and, despite a few withdrawal symptoms, am looking forward to perhaps, getting more sewing in - time will tell.

This year was the 40th Anniversary of Qld Quilters and everything focused a round red, ruby, 40 - you get the picture and the above was my entry into the Challenge "Celebrating 40".

 At our Art Quilt Group, we've had various Challenges and the above represents a song.  The challenge was to depict a favourite song, movie or book - we had some great entries.  Just in case you don't get it - mine was Green, green Grass of Home - home is there on the LHS.

Today

Saw one of my old quilts being used at my Mum's Aged Care Facility by one of the residents.  Think I made this in the early 2000's as an entry in the annual fabric Challenge for Qld Quilters Inc.  Val is enjoying it at the moment.

Flowers from the ginger in our back yard.

Our orchid that just hangs around in flower.  A really great splash of purple.

A quilt finished.  Hand stitching, hand quilting & I'm happy with it.

I called it "Thunder Eggs"

 

Qld Quilters March Meeting

Above are some of the members' quilts from Show'n'Tell - a talented bunch.

We had speakers from Qld Women's Historical Assn and they brought along a couple of antique quilts.  This crazy quilt was beautiful and created a lot of interest.

 

SOTA23

The theme for this year's exhibition was "Flora" and there were size restrictions.  The top one was called "My Flora" - imagined bacteria in my gut - wasn't accepted!  Don't think that it would have looked good in the exhibition with most artists probably using flowers or pretty things as their inspiration.

The bottom one, "Poppy Fields" was accepted and I'm really pleased with it.  Collaged background and poppies vliesoflexed & stitched.

No quite sure what to do with "My Flora". It's 15" x 15". 

 

Boro - in essence

My T-shirt was too loved to throw away when it developed little holes - boro to the rescue - nobody notices the repairs until I point them out.  I only point them out to friends who understand the need to repair/enhance loved clothing.

 

CONNECTED by THREAD

Broadstrokes Textile Group's exhibition - Connected by Thread - opens this week.

This link will take you to the catalogue - if you can't make it to the exhibition

https://broadstrokestextileartists.blogspot.com/p/connected-by-thread-catalaogue.html

Below are some of my pieces from the exhibition.

Book of Months

Portrait of One Lady

Fruit and Flowers

Meditation 1

White Jar Collection.