Spring Projects

My calendar tells me it's Spring.  The view out my window is pure winter.  It snowed all day yesterday, although it was melting about as quickly as it was falling.  This morning we had four inches of snow.  Again.

In the studio, flowered quilts are blooming.  "Singing Tulips" is hanging at "Let's Quilt" in Oregon City and I missed having it on my wall, so I made it again in slightly different colors.  I've declared it to be spring inside, even if it doesn't look much like it outside.

I started painting some canvases for painted quilts yesterday.

As you can see, they aren't too exciting yet.  I've gotta start somewhere.  And I find that starting is the hard part.  Once I get going, they kind of take on a life of their own.


This one hasn't got a name yet, but started out as leftovers from my first painted quilt.  Now that it's quilted, I like it better than I thought I would, so it's next in line to be framed.

"Campfire" isn't quite finished.  I'll be hanging it on the design wall to kind of let it soak in, so I'll figure out what it needs.  Sometimes, I just know what to do next.  Other projects wait a long time to tell me what they need to be.  This one appears to be shy, so I'll just be patient.  (You might want to note that last bit in red someplace as patience is not my most obvious virtue.)

On the other hand, "Campfire's" alter ego has a name and knows just what it is - "Birds at Sunset."

I'm still a couple birds short of a flock, but getting there.


Now I have to get back to the sewing machine and make the most of the cold weather so I'll have time to give the yard some much deserved love when it warms up.  Sometime.  THIS spring.  Whenever it gets here.

Candy