The next Big Thing

The next Big Thing that is going to happen in my art life is that we are lucky enough to have Rosalie Dace coming to li'l ol' G-town to give a THREE-DAY workshop. I'm actually more excited for this than you can tell! We are going to be looking at the work of Paul Klee. More about this when it happens!

Kittens

For those readers who are not particularly keen on pets in a quilting blog, I do apologise.

We are thoroughly enjoying the kittens. One went to a new home, but we are still looking for homes for another two. We will keep the remaining two who are pictured below.
We have to keep Smudge (named for the black spot on his nose - hey it's better than Spot!) because as you can see he is already quite an accomplished Quilt Inspector. Since this is the quilt I am currently working on, it lies on the couch a lot and he keeps it warm in between the times I work on it.

Brain is also a boy (so named because.... I don't know, actually. I think the girls thought he was brainy because he was adventurous very early on.) He looks rather strange with snow-white whiskers against a black face and usually has a permanently-surprised look on his face.

Smudge is very flopsy when he is asleep or relaxed, which makes for a continuous stream of cute kitty photos on the camera, which I promise I will not subject you to!

Pinky and Three await adoption. Anyone?

Inno 2007

These are some photos of my Innovative Threads entry for 2007. They are only detail shots as the big pictures all came out blurry. I still have not found my camera cable to connect my camera to the computer so I took my memory card out and put it in my daughter's camera and used her cable - a bit circuitous, but it worked, to get the photos here. For some reason, this is entirely hand-worked. It was just too fiddly, with too many twists and turns, to do on the machine, and there are lots of beads, which also makes it hard to do on the machine.

More Dyeing

This was some dying I did a while ago, but thought I would show here. I only managed to take one picture before Three (of Five, a StarTrek reference for those in the know) came along and plonked herself in the middle of the picture. She looks scared out of her wits, but that is her usual look.

I swear, cats look to see where YOU are looking and then go and sit right in your line of sight. And then they pretend not to care.

I'm back

Gosh, I see it has been over a month. Things are vastly improved with me, I am happy to report, AND we've just finished another trial, so I'm cruising a little at work, just doing updating and things that can be accomplished without time pressure (what a pleasure).

I managed to send in an entry for Innovative Threads 2007 (only just - can you spell P-r-o-crastinate?) but it's in; hold thumbs for me! I've also done a few other things, but seem to have lost my camera cable, so the photos are trapped on my camera! I need to do some concerted tidying and housekeeping to see if I can locate it - an art quilt blog without photos is hopeless :)

I've decided I have WAY too many unfinished works and it's time to get some discipline and do more completing. This means digging up the UFOs and slogging at the machine. Really must investigate how I can get hold of some talking books.

The kittens are growing and growing - we still need to find homes for 2 more and we're keeping 2. Anyone want a kitten? :)