Oh My! It's been awhile.

 There hasn't been much studio time the last few weeks.  Not sure why, but maybe life got in the way.  We've been very busy getting ready for winter, to the extent we can.

The Virginia Creeper piece is finished and has been entered in a gallery show for the month of December.

I did find some time to work on the small quilt made with the Kaffe Fasset Fabric.  I'm very much loving the design, even if I can't take credit for it.   It's now quilted and ready for binding.  I still don't know if I will donate it, or maybe keep it for any potential Great-grandbaby.  Not that I expect any in the near future.  It's about 36" square.

 In terms of future work, I must confess that nothing is lurking at the back of my mind.  I do want to re-make the whitework feather quilt I made earlier this year, as I wasn't happy with the final result. But I have a hunch my brain is going to insist that I re-draft the pattern.  Not that I'm adverse to that, but I know what a demanding, time-consuming process that is.  And, in  a dark, musty corner of my mind, is the knowledge that I have a gallery show next May, the one that has been short circuited twice by Covid.

New work

 In my last post I mentioned that I had donation quilts on my mind again.  I was also itchy to work with the Kaffe Fassett fabric that I bought a couple of years ago.  I had seen a quilt on the internet, but I have no idea where, and it was some time ago, but it had been sketched out, so there was a reference.  The first efforts didn't work well, and there was a lot of ripping out to be done, but yesterday I managed to get the first two 12 1/2" squares put together.  3 more done today, and the pieces cut for the last 4.  So it should be put together in a couple of days.

Last month I took a zoom workshop with Dawn Piastra on using Inktense pencils with fabric.  I took several pictures of  the Virginia Creeper vines, in wonderful autumn colours, in the yard, and drafted a design for using the pencils.  Here is a photo of the work in progress.  The paler leaves in the center have just been coloured, but the brighter ones around them, is the finished colour, after the pencil has been activated.

Here is the full image.  I will have to heat set the ink, and wash the piece before finishing it, probably as a wall hanging, although I'm considering a cushion.  It is about 16" by 24".