I am making myself dizzy with all the busy-ness over the past couple of days. Some weeks are boring but this one definitely has NOT been! :) Starting with the end of my day yesterday, let me share some photos with you.
Last night the Baltimore Modern Quilt Guild met at a member's home and shared with one another our Kaufman Charm Challenge quilts. Some were finished (you can see mine here if you don't remember what I made:) and some were still Works In Progress (like the one made by our hostess above). (See, wasn't that a clever segue into Wednesday WIP? LOL) Here are the others we saw:
This project will be pretty bright and happy when Sharon finishes it! We convinced her (fingers crossed!) to join the two halves of her blocks with random color matches (instead of the way this photo looks). ;) Go, girl!!
This is Mary's WIP for the challenge. She is working in the style of a contemporary painter whose work she admired at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts recently (I can't wait to see the finish!:).
We met in Owings Mills, MD - an area I am largely unfamiliar with. Because I was traveling at the peak of rush hour, it actually took me 57 minutes to cover the 14.8? miles from my store to her house. What a nice area it is up there (western section of Baltimore County)! :)
Before I went to the meeting, I spent some time working at my store and then some time trying to finish my Work In Progress. Pretend it is still Wednesday, here's what I am struggling to get in the mail. :)
I joined a fabric postcard swap on 3 Creative Studios (the swap theme is Buried Treasure) and am almost finished with my cards to mail. I went looking for some clear envelopes to send them in yesterday (with absolutely no luck) - I once bought a package of 50 but have used them up. (sigh) My postcards are too dimensional and I'm afraid they will get eaten by the Post Office Snail (a.k.a. sorting machinery).
I wish I could share with you how wonderful these cards _feel_! The top layer (through which I have cut to reveal the underneath fabric) is made from my first Nuno felt results. Soft and luscious and wonderful to sew/embroider on. These pieces are definitely still WIPs. I need to finish adding some beading and then trim and bind them so I can mail them off to the other swappers. :)
No end of fun! I was so tired by the time I got home last night around 10:15 p.m. ... my direct creative effort for yesterday was writing/drawing a half page in my daily journal. Then I fell into bed. (whew!)
:) Linda
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