My second “Summer Where I Live” was about 12″ x 15″ inches – but I didn’t like it. My solution for that was to cut it up into pieces, bind those, insert eyelets into the corners and connect the sections with copper chain. I still need to decide how to hang it. Maybe on a small branch? Commercial and hand-dyed fabrics, Shiva paintsticks, pigment ink, metallic ink, machine quilted with cotton, polyester, and rayon threads.
The first week of June I had the privilege of attending an Art Quilt Retreat at Ricky Tims’ Studio in La Veta, Colorado. What a blast! There were nine of us attending that week, and we really bonded. Ricky and his partner Justin are the warmest, most down-to-earth people you would ever want to meet, and they treated us grandly. Our group named ourselves the “Nine Hoz Quilting” (long story and not what it sounds like) and are planning to meet again in La Veta next July. Meanwhile, we’re having our first challenge – a mini-quilt entitled, “Summer Where I Live.” I ended up with two.
Here is the first – commercial and hand-dyed fabrics, machine pieced, hand appliqued, machine and hand quilted. Approximately 8″ x 10″:
Just finished my contribution to the Fiber Art Traders Triptych Postcard Trade. The theme was “Your Vision of Home.” Mine is called “Cat House” because “Home is Where the Cat Is.”
And this is how it looks inside:
In the last fourteen months, old age and illness had reduced us from a six-cat family to just two felines. We were feeling seriously under-catted.
I had mentioned to my husband that I would love to have another male orange tabby. They are known for being especially affectionate, good-natured cats.
It must have been fate! Just a week or so later, one of his co-workers told him that her neighbor was trying to find a home for a wonderful cat she had taken in but couldn’t keep. Winston had been abandoned by his people when they lost their condo in a foreclosure. Unbelievable!
So he has come to live with us. Welcome, Winston!
Winston the Happy Camper
