Catching up

Hi!

It's been a long while since I posted. Foot surgery primarily has kept me away.

So now I want to share what I am in the process of doing.

My current project is Christopher's quilt. I have only just begun to get to the sewing machine - a week or two ago, and I nearly have his quilt top put together. He helped me with some of the design work and then I got it up and running the past couple of months while I was laid up. I have been photo documenting the progress so I will share a couple of the pics with you as it proceeds.


I first went to Kinkos and had them blow up my drawing to a life size scale and proceeded from there making adjustments as I went. It was only after I got the basic design up on the wall that I realized some of the background design wasn't gonna work, so off I go with ferreting out new ideas.


The pale moon and shaft of light I had planned on to add drama, wouldn't work with a stormy sky, so out they went and in came the lightening and clouds

The black sky was too stark and the other got very busy. Changed the wing color as well and finally got to my design .


I am currently finishing the front wing and will finish the dragon itself in the next couple of days.

This is a large quilt and I don't have access to a long arm machine that I know of so I will have to work it up in sections and hopefully be able to get it together. My goal is to get it done by the end of the month...but I still have to do taxes!

While I was down I did do a lot of jewelry and wire work and will post some pics on that page soon.