Distractions

In a couple of weeks I will be hosting our local SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Association) group and we will have a part of SAQA's traveling trunk show here. This means that Studio B needs to be cleaned and organized somewhat so that we have a spot for  the trunk show. We are also going to be doing some indigo and eating lunch. I've been gradually organizing and putting things away and have made some progress but I keep finding things to play with. Last weekend I was putting some paints
on the shelf where they belonged and in the box with the paints was a pile of 4 inch squares of white fabric fused to flannel. Now this box has been sitting here waiting for me to put the contents away since the end of 2016, they were the leftovers from the daily stitching of gelli prints.
The paints got put away and as I picked up the fabrics I had this immediate urge to dip them in indigo, so the organizing stopped and the play began.

This is how they looked while they were still wet after rinsing.

After ironing I played with a few setting options, but haven't made a decision yet.

Does anyone have a favorite layout or suggestion?

2018 Weekly Leaf #35

Before stitching

After stitching

2018 Daily Stitching #2 days 92 -98

I thought I had fixed my problem with not getting comments sent to my email, but it only worked one week, ugh!

I'll be linking up with "Off the Wall Friday" and "Slow Sunday Stitching"

Stitching between the hexagons

Studio time this week was minimal, but I did get some more hand stitching done on the 2 indigo and hexagon pieces. The first one has all the blue lines stitched and I'm now adding triangles in the open spaces.

The second piece now has the hexagons appliquéd on and a row of stitches between them.

The color is truer in the first photo.

2018 Weekly Leaf #34

before stitching

After

2018 Daily Stitching #2, days 85 - 91

I'll be linking up with "Off the Wall Friday" and "Slow Stitching Sunday".

More indigo

While sitting in my chair working on my daily stitching, my container of vintage drapery silk samples  caught my eye and I just knew I had to try them with some indigo. Within an hour I had these hanging on my design wall.

Now I must confess that I do things like this all the time, look at them and not know what to do with them, fold them up and put them away. This time I posted this picture on instagram, made a comment about what am I going to do with them and Sue Reno responded with a whole list of things I could do with them. One of those was to use the fabric as background for appliqué, which is something I rarely do, but for some reason it stuck with me. The following morning I started pulling things out and after making a bit of a mess found some silk hexagons that had been prepped for stitching about six years ago, a few were just the right color and I had the start of something new.

The piece on the right is just pinned together. The piece on the left has the hexagons appliquéd down  and the hand stitching has begun.

Two of the other pieces are very light weight silk and will become scarves, the rest have been folded up and put away for now. I do have more of the samples and will most likely be dipping more into the indigo pot.

You can find me on Instagram as @thrulindaseyes

2018 Weekly Leaf #33

I've started using the botanical prints I showed last time.

Before stitching

After

2018 daily Stitching #2 days 78 - 84

More french knots this week.

I'll be linking up with "Off the Wall Friday" and "Slow Sunday Stitching"

Indigo, Cyanotype, and Botanical prints

I've had a fun week of printing leaves for my weekly leaf series. First I did several botanical prints dipping the leaves in a copper solution before steaming. These are all on silk broadcloth and the copper gives a much more delicate look than my usual iron dip. This group is ready for the next five weeks of stitching.

I also did several cyanotypes using green fabric treated with the chemicals.

This group and the next will be used later in the year for the weekly leaves. The next group was an experiment with soy wax, stencils and indigo.

I had made up an indigo pot because I wanted a piece of indigo blue about 24" square, after I got that done I decided it was play time. I let some local friends know that I had a pot ready and they were welcome to come play and this morning that's what we did.

We played early because the temperature this afternoon are supposed to be 108 degrees, way too hot to play. The square piece I did is below, underneath the rusted piece I'll be stitching to it.

Last week I promised to show the quilts that were at the Fair.

2018 Weekly Leaf #32

2018 Daily Stitching #2, days 71-77

More background done and a french knot spiral, it's over half way done!

I'll be linking up to "Off the Wall Friday" and Slow Sunday Stitching"

County Fair Time

This week is the Washington County fair in Cambridge, Idaho and I spent the day yesterday as one of the supervisors for the intake and judging of flowers. This is my second year doing this and it's a fun busy day. This year I even entered some of my herbs, coleus and a house plant and they did well. Earlier in the week I took a couple of quilts up, they both got blue ribbons and special awards. I meant to take pictures, but got busy with my job and forgot, so maybe next week.

My hubby is healing well and the staples were taken out on Wednesday and he is progressing very well and most of my nurse duties are finished, except for driving him to appointments.

2018 Weekly leaf #31

2018 Daily Stitching #2 days 64-70
 I filled in the blue of the x shape and more background stitching.

I'll be linking up with "Off the Wall Friday" and "Slow Sunday Stitching", check out what everyone else has been stitching.