November Review

Gelatin Prints

Rayna Gillman's first book
 Create Your Own Hand-Printed Cloth
came yesterday and so I was inspired to do some
 gelatin printing today

Design Wall

Here is what my design wall looks like at the moment.

The small pieces on the left are some designs done with Paintstiks.

 At the top and on the right are some monoprints and in the middle,

I have the strip pieced experiments.
Just wanted you to know I have been working!

Sewing Strips

12"x15"

Rayna Gillman's new book, Create Your Own Free Form Quilts came the day before Thanksgiving. I had a hard time baking my pies! I just wanted to play with strips. Rayna's book is fun to read as it makes me feel like we are just having a conversation. Have I done strip piecing before? Well yes, but this is a different way to approach it and I am having a ball. I have sort of been hanging on to my hand dyed or printed fabric--afraid to cut into them, but after I read what Rayna says about the great garage sale in the sky, I cut right into several of them. Big fun. So I made the piece in the photo (no title yet) and hand quilted it last night. I started sewing more strip sets this morning. Oh and printing some fabric.........   

New Stamps

I wanted to show you some new stamps
and the fabric I printed with them.
Aren't they fancy?
And very expensive!
Styrofoam packing for a painted wine glass......

Ripple

I am really beginning to question my sanity. I have several interesting and creative projects in work and suddenly I decided to crochet a blanket. Have I been reading too many blogs?  Several people I follow have been making
                                        Ripples.
At any rate, I had this bag full of magenta acrylic yarn that I bought at the thrift store for $2 (I was disappointed to find that it wasn't wool) and I have been trying to decide what to do with it. This seemed a good project for it, but then of course I had to get MORE acrylic yarn to make up all of the bright colored stripes I wanted to do. Sigh.....I had no idea it would end up being so big! Still, it is a mindless project and relaxing. Maybe I will even finish it!

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