Trinidad, CA

First morning on the Pacific coast

Bad blogger...

...better at playing with projects than I am at recording my progress :)

Shades of violet: El Santuario de Chimayo and the Cowboy series

About a year ago, I was toying with light and shadow, by layering various shades of violet tulle combined with stitching.  It was meant to be a simple exercise of experimentation, in which I wanted to avoid detail, suggesting the subject using shape and shading.  My subject was the Southwest, and I've named this my Cowboy series.  There are two single panels, one of Tucson and one of Zion, and a five-panel desert scene.  The final piece in the series (and the first of these pictures) is the chapel at Chimayo, New Mexico.  Although I started it with the same idea of using primarily light and shadow, I allowed myself to add more detail with stitching in this piece, and have only recently completed it.

Poppies!

My garden is glorious with them this year!

Completed blanket top

I finished sewing together the blocks for my "Endless Stairs" blanket today, and laid it out on the bed to see the results.  I'm pretty happy with it, especially because my kitty Monkee likes it...that bump in the lower right hand corner is her, already using the blanket to make a tent :)

Double Delight

Flowers from my new rose bush, Double Delight.  The flowers are a creamy, pale yellow with a pink edging, and they have a delicious fragrance :). Also, a pendant necklace I made with an evil eye amulet I purchased from a Turkish imports shop in Columbus, OH and beads from the 2013 Tucson Gem and Bead show.

Pieced flannel blocks

Ready to assemble. Five each of twelve different combinations, for a total of 60 8" blocks.