A Beautiful Day in the Ozarks

 
We drove home through the back roads this weekend just to reval in the beautiful weather. When we see the deserted homes and barns, we fantasize as to how we would restore them. There are some beauties here, but they are deteriorating fast.
 

 

Arden’s Art Quilt

 
This piece is coming along. As pictured, all the pieces have been sewn together, onto the batting, with machine satin stitch or fancy machine embroidery stitches. Now I’m ready to apply the backing which I shall do using Melody Johnson’s Escape Hatch Finish. Then I’ll do quilting and embellishment. There will be no brown [...]

Purple Boot Print

 
 After talking via the web with artist friends, Mary Alice and Nancy, I’ve started over on Arden’s art quilt. Thank you, dear friends. I think I’m on a better direction. I just pulled this purple print of the purple boots onto purple fabric. Think that’s enough purple?? Nah. I love my thermofax almost as much [...]

Two Bog Bunnies

 

You must meet my friends, Nancy and Rob Krampf (see their Easter Album). They are newly weds who seem to be having the time of their lives. Nancy is a mixed-media artist (no web site yet) and Rob is a science educator. Nancy loves to “decorate” and is an excellent party planner. This is the first [...]

Arden

Remember the purple boots? I’m making a piece that’s a prayer/homage/shrine/whatever for my recently deceased daughter-in-law Arden. Although she had a struggle with her health and sadness in her life, she was greatly loved by family, friends, and co-workers. She once gave a friend a pillow with the words, “You’ll always be my best friend [...]

Spring Flowers

 
The other day I crawled around on my hands and knees taking pictures of my tulips.  I love the way the above tulip is backlit. The next day the weather was gorgeous but too wet to work in the garden, so I jumped into my truck and drove across the lake to the State Park [...]