Ending on a Sunny Note

Ending the month, that is.  I've been thinking; isn't it odd that we can -- at the very same time -- wonder if winter will ever end and where December, January and February went?!   (C'mon now; you know that's true -- that's exactly what we do!)

To end the month on an appropriately sunny note (whether it's sunny where you are or not), here is the last of my "Quilty Vitamins":

"Sunflower Sunrise"!  This is a pattern  from Letitia Hutchings via Mount Redoubt Designs, for a lovely hanging -- a bit three-dimensional -- that finishes at 18" x 42".  (I tried to find direct links to both Ms. Hutchings and www.mrdquilt.com, but cannot.  Mount Redoubt's website is apparently undergoing a make-over so if you want to view it, try it and see...)

And the winner of this bit of sunshine is... L.E. of Elly Knits!  I will be in touch with her...and hope that she enjoys quilting as well as knitting.  If not, perhaps she has a friend or family member who quilts...

I'm off to a slow start today, as I was home late from the wonderful "Evening with C.S. Lewis" at Deer Park Alliance Church in Red Deer.  This was part of a fund-raising tour for World Vision, for which David Payne, the actor playing Lewis, is a spokesperson.  In addition to Lewis, Mr. Payne has portrayed the apostle Paul (as he was while under house arrest in Rome) and Aslan the Lion in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.   If you get a chance to see one of his productions, I highly recommend you do so! (See the link above for tour dates.)

So now...I must get back to the studio.  More later!

The Thing About WIP Wednesday...

is that while I'm Working on what's In Progress, I often don't stop to take a photo! ;-)

Thanks to all of you who left kind words about the miniature I finished yesterday.  These pieces are all 6.5" x 8.5" with matts that finish them at 8" x 10".  I got hooked on making them after I did the piece for "Santa Fe Spotlight", the silent auction being held at the SAQA Conference there at the end of April.   Seems I couldn't make just one!

Here's the one I've made today -- shown in it's matt, but it's not actually mounted, as it's not quite finished.  If you look closely at the bottom right side, you'll see tiny seed stitches in the green grass.  A bit more of this work needs to be done around the trees and to the left side, but I'm off to Red Deer shortly to run some errands, followed by a one-man production, "An Evening With C.S. Lewis" featuring British actor David Payne, so the rest of the hand-stitch will have to wait until tomorrow.

Trio II (c) 2013

Look familiar?  ;-)  It's a mini of my Final Assessment Piece...after a fashion.  More of arlee's eco-dyed fabric for the tree trunks (though not the same fabric as in the larger piece) and my own hand-dyed fabric for the sky and the grass.  (Oh, and those golden "hills" -- trees, in real life -- in this morning's post?  arlee's fabric too.)

And so I'll close by linking to WIP Wednesday on The Needle and Thread Network...and hope to take some time to look at all the posts there...tomorrow, with a cuppa.  Ciao!