More Postcards

Since I'm doing a postcard exchange I need to keep busy making them until I'm finished. With these 8 I am now 1/3 finished! I want each to be different so I can challenge myself to try new things and each recipient will receive a 'one-of-a-kind' piece of art from me.

Small Quilts

I've enjoyed doing some small quilts recently. They are fun and quick to create plus they give me the opportunity to try a different technique on a small basis.

These are two postcards I've made:





Grapes of Plenty

Nebraska Sandhills Sunrise

These two I made for the Tiny Textiles Challenge:

That Blazin' Sun

4 1/2" x 7"

Newest Star on Broadway

6" x 9"

Wild Friday Night

September 16, 2006

Weather-wise anyhow. Lots of thunder, lightning, hail, buckets of rain. One bolt of lightning banged right overhead and we wondered all night what it hit. This a.m. we couldn't find a thing that was touched so I'm wondering if it wasn't lateral lightning? It was loud and the entire yard was white. Today and into tonight we're under a tornado watch.

I finally finished a queen-sized bed quilt I'd begun last winter but got very tired of all those points and repetitiveness of the pattern. The past few years I've gotten more into smaller wall and/or art quilts. Not that they're any easier to complete, but more satisfying as I work and finish them. Last week I finished a 24" x 36" quilt for Project Kid Comfort that depicted Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale, The Nightingale. Who knows what is next?

I'm thrilled that I will be taking some art quilt classes at QSDS next summer with Esterita Austin and Katie Pasquini Masopust. I've long admired their work and couldn't believe my good fortune to find them both teaching at the same time. That bright spot will help me get through our long, cold, prairie winter not far off.