on my way home

wow it  is august all ready. tomorrow i will finally be on the last ride home. taking the bus from chicago to oshikosh in the morning.

haven't done much this week. its hard to sew at my daughters. Lighting not very good. Not sure where the week went.

Miss seeing my dad every day and perhaps am having a big emotional let down. I need to reconcile in my mind alot of personal thoughts about ageing, mortality, and how i am currently living. The life you are given goes so fast. Wow like a tornado really. here and then gone.

Hopefully will get re-charged when i get home and finish projects. Like down sizing--mostly need to get it done and quit feeling over whelmed. (that results in doing nothing)

Nobody wins

The George zimmerman trial has been on my mind.

I have one opinion-Zimmerman was told during his call to the police-we don't need you to do that.
In other words stay in your car, the police were on their way.

He followed Trayvon, he confronted Trayvon and killed him.''

Something is very wrong with the justice system.

so
One dead 17 year old kid. George Zimmerman made a very bad decision when he did not take the advice of the police.

The other thing that really bothers me is the press and coverage of this trial. Every station on tv from Orlando ran this trial all of them every day from 9-5. Also CNN ?? The part that bothers me is the idle speculation from so called experts the TV stations hired. The only experts on the outcome of this was the jury. This is not news. It was just absurd. Then at 11 pm each night they would run additional coverage going over the days events. It was sickening all of these opinions which all in reality meant nothing.

Perhaps the demonstration now should be by all white crowds carrying the same signs that the black demonstrators are carrying. Maybe sadly a white crowd would have more impact. Racism or a sad comment on American society. very much justice blind and gone awry.

i am heart broken for this country and most of all for Trayvons family.

what"ifffing white on white

Went back to Jude Hill's blog and decided to do the white on white. although trying to get pictures is hard.

amazing so many colors of white.

 These are so dependent on texture. Happened to have some stamped images with me so added these to the first piece. Not sure where else this is going or if  I really like it. Using what I have with me....In another few days to Chicago and then home. Wow been gone a little over 2 months.

 This one is even harder to see.

 Back to some hearts as am not coming up with any images. Have to wait and see what else comes about.

tree themes

 Have always admired Ericka Carters Quilts and of course Ruth McDowell. Working in a more abstract way this came about. The fabrics are some of my hand dyes. The backing, top pieced fabrics and batting were put together and pinned. The stripes were added and the whole thing was a quilt as you go. This method worked so continued on creating the quilt sandwich and then added the top elements. I started to use yellow in the centers and then built out from there. 6 inch stripes and three inch.

 My yellow window was the start and then more stripes added on.These three were from 2009.

This is a whole cloth dyed background that had multiple shadings when it came out of the dye bath. So it became the background.

stuff worked on in florida

Went to Best Buy and bought a card reader--enough is enough. Wow it works instantly no fighting or fretting with the usb cord from the camera much less windows.

 Hand piecing hexagons--these are just sort of an on going project. one of these years maybe I will have a whole quilt.

 Have been trying to do one flower each day--by the time i get back to Wisconsin these will be put away again. UFO's Ufo's Ufo's--

 Took some pictures of the three low volume pieces I finished won here. I spoke about them in another post.

recycled wool prison blankets

 I have a embellisher machine and started messing around with wool and yarns. Using a cotton batting as a base different yarns and wool roving  were added for texture. Additional embroidery was done over the surface to create these mini landscapes. This piece is very heavy and a nice way to use up what was thrown away.

The camera card did not have any close ups?? will have to add some at a later date. Beading was added to the organic tree structure. When this was close to completion additional pearl cotton quilting was added so the backing would be tacked down.

After I get back will have to get some close up's.

recycled wool and embroidery

 This particular piece is done and only have in process pictures. The pictures at least give a sense of where this was going. will have to take a finished picture and add it after I get home.

 After making the scenes for the small tri-fold bags i applied the same ideas to a larger piece. Beige / Tan wool background with a shiny polyester fabric for the main background. To this multiple layers of silk and polyester scraps were added to form the hills. The yarn is a heavy wool couched down to form a tree figure.

a gold colored thread, it was like a metallic was used for the running stitches in the blue part. regular pearl cotton was used to quilt the wool background.