This time I chose to use another of my ‘recycled’ fabrics for my August journal quilt.  I pulled out a piece of ‘fabric’ created from fused shopping bags and created my artist trading cards for the FAN retreat in September and some ‘inchies’ and squares that are incorporated into this piece.  Nothing goes to waste! My Inspiration August proved to be another crazy month!  I chose ‘T’ for a number...

  The technique I chose for this month’s journal quilt can be found in the book Layered Textures: New Surfaces with heat tools, machine and hand stitch by Kim Thittichai.  I think I will be dipping back into this book again for techniques to try.  Faux Chenille is one of the Recycled Layers ideas that I was drawn to while browsing the pages.  I’m also working on a series featuring recycled… materials but more on that to...

Back home tonight. What a busy ten days we have had. First a smooth flight with wonderful views of clouds and the fields and forest below as we flew west . . . Then a walk down Stephen Street in Calgary under wonderful blue skies . . . a rodeo in Airdrie . . . a visit to Drumheller on a day when the thermometer registered 40 degrees Celsius and a brisk dry wind was blowing . . . An afternoon in Banff amidst the glorious Canadian Rockies . . . A...

We arrived in Calgary last night to a warm welcome from the ‘grand-dogs’! This morning we are taking a lazy start as we are still on Ontario time and our planned trip downtown is best left until after the morning rush hour. I wonder what adventures today will hold. The last couple of weeks were a real scurry and culminated in a marathon photography session so I could record the T-shirt quilt before it was packed for delivery. Here...

  Earlier this spring I had the opportunity to buy an embellisher but had little time to play with it. Now that the exhibition work is completed, I was able to use one of the recent rainy days to play and here is one of the first pieces I completed. Because this was strictly experimental I just used materials that were easy to access – quilt batt trimmed from the edges of the T-shirt quilt, some odds and ends of wool and scraps from...

The last two weeks are a blur! Work on the quilt progressed quickly once I worked out a system and side two only took a day and a bit! By trimming and aligning logos that were similar in width and then grouping them into piles so that the lengths came out to approximately the 55 inches less the number of borders required – I was able to create the strips to be joined together. I found that I did the sorting after adding inner borders to...

Today was one of those glorious summer days – warm without a lot of humidity, a light breeze blowing and bright blue skies above. Don and I joined friends for an early morning walk that developed into a tour of the classic car exhibition in the local park. I think that everyone is eager to be outdoors after a month of rainy days. The participants were busy giving a last minute polish to their vehicles in hopes of catching the...