Cyanotypes and ice dyed fabric

It's National Old Time Fiddle Festival here in Weiser this week, so I've put in some volunteer time listening to the music. I work in the judging area checking the tabulation of the scores, so I get to hear the music but not see the contestants. Earlier in the week the very small fry were the contestants and today it was Seniors. So I've heard quite a range of skills and music.

I've pulled out some cyanotype leaves I did last fall and put them together with the ice dyed fabric I did a few weeks ago.

Then decided it needed an ice dyed backing fabric.

Now I have to decide how to quilt it.

2019 Daily Stitching #2, days 76-82
Getting closer to the end

This week it was stars, bars and z's all done with running stitch.

2019 Weekly Leaf, week #25
Red Solar fast on white cotton sateen, a bit of green Inktense blocks used on the leaves and a great red and green variegated pearl cotton from Valdani.

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

It's Fiddle Week

It's a busy week here in Weiser, the National Old Time Fiddle Contest is taking place. This happens the third week in June every year and it runs on lots of volunteer hours. I finished my stint of hours at noon today. For the past eleven years I've been a checker, I check the tabulations of the judges scores to make sure everything is correct before it is input into the computer. I sit with the person that tabulates the scores in a little room, we get to hear the music but not see the performances. The judges are in a bigger room next to us and they also hear it but don't know who is playing.

Back in May 2010 there was a contest held to decorate large plywood fiddles, I participated and won the contest. If you go back thru my blog archives there are several posts about decorating the fiddle. Here I am with the finished fiddle.

And here is how the fiddle looks today hanging from a power pole.

The decorated fiddles are hung on power poles on the town's main streets and near the contest site for the week of the contest, so every year I search mine out.

On Saturday there will be the annual parade and this year I'll be walking in part of the parade handing out Library bookmarks. The things you end up doing when you're a board member.

I put together another donation quilt top last weekend, it's waiting for a backing and quilting.

2018 Weekly leaf #25

Before Stitching

After Stitching

2018 Daily Stitching #2  days 22-28

A lot of french knots

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