What's new under my needles?

Sisterly Love!   

My sister, Barb Squire, and I are working on her quilt together.  She embroidered  all of the white squares and I am putting it together and quilting it.  I left the piecing simple because I want the embroidery to pop.  I will be purchasing wool batting to make sure it happens.  It will be a little bigger than a queen with a drop, just in case it gets passed down to someone with a kingsize bed.  We plan on entering it into the Wood Country Fair Grounds.  I have pieced it with my 780 B Bernina Sewing Machine and it will be quilted with some traditional feathers and echo quilting on my Sweet Sixteen Handiquilter.  

How special is the sissy quilt!  

 The quilt below is for myself.  It is greys, browns and off whites large pieced roses.  It is a contemporary kingsize quilt.  It will be quilted with the rose like quilting with echo quilting around the large pieced roses so they pop.  Yes, I like think to pop and I like quilts to be soft and not too much quilting.  I hand based this quilt using Sharon Schamber method.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhwNylePFAA   My quilts get ruffed up alot and moved around between the time I finish the top and start to quilt, especially the kingsize ones.  Sometimes I wish I had a long arm and I could put it downstairs or rent one at my favorite quilt shops, but I don't want to spend that kind of money.  I do not want to make money just quilting.  Putting my tops together and designing them are the favorite thing I enjoy so much.

What is under your needle today?   I am sorry that these quilts are going to someone already, so they will not be in my Etsy Shop.  But please go to the website and see what is available. https://www.etsy.com/shop/justforyoutoo?ref=hdr_shop_menu      Thank you.

Look around, there is ART everywhere!

WHAT IS ART? 

 

Art to me is beauty, something to look closer at, something that makes you think or wonder and something that makes you want to touch it.  It is a bird in flight, the sun glowing in the morning, a leaf budding, a flower unfolding, the sound of the ocean waves against the sandy shore, the taste of a morel mushroom for the first time, the tingle of your first kiss that you will always remember.  the feeling of being grounded and back home again when you visit your old hometown or the sound of a crisp bell with different tones. To me ART encompasses all our senses: visual, smell, touch, wonder and hearing.  

This picture was taken in South Carolina at Huntington Beach State Park.  This little gal was in the wet lands protecting  her nest.  I love her orange feet and blue head and her eyes.  This picture invokes in me the smell of salt water, the quiet of the wetlands, the wonder of the bird's nest and the feel of the sun on my face.    This picture will become an art quilt someday. 

My cats are always a source of ART to me.  Their funny antics, the look on their faces, the shapes of their bodies the feel of their silky coat and those cute little pink ears. 

Music is ART.  It evokes feelings, sound, drama, bass that you feel in your soul, the grandness of the peristyle and the uncomfortable seats.  

  Are ya sitting at the train track, waiting for the train to pass.  Open you window, listen to the sound of the track as the train passes over it, hear the blowing of the warning horn, smell the metal and look at the surrounding safety lights.  This is ART to me.  Can you see this as a picture, an fiber art quilt, painting or a 3-D toy. 

A different scene.  Peace, closing of the day, Good night feeling.  Smell the lake, feel the cooling of the earth, listen to the ducks. Day is done.  This is ART. 

What is your idea of ART? Would please share it with me?