Violets Mini Quilt

Here is the quilt that I mentioned in the previous post. It's for sale at http://www.wmarlaine.etsy.com.

I'm not doing nothing!

When I don't post to my blog for a few days, I feel like I need to post something. I've been working on some hand stitched quilt blocks that I'm anxious to have complete. When I have one done, I'll post a photo here. The block is three dimensional violets growing in small pots. I'm remembering how much I enjoy any quilting hand work I do. If only there were more hours in a day and years in a lifetime.

A Cool Website

I found this artists work on Etsy and followed a link to her website. These little beaded art pins are gorgeous!

Art Quilt Pins

Freestyle Beaded Pendant

SOLD - December 2007



My inspiration for this piece was the coppery yarn I used. I was fooling around with it twisting a length of it in my fingers and then placing it on the navy hand dyed fabric background. This is one of my favourite colour combinations and is a traditional old French combination: brown and blue...in this case copper and navy. When I had the yarn formed in a way that pleased my eye, I selected a palette of seed and bugle beads to use to anchor it to the fabric and just let intuition guide me. In other words, allowing the artiste in me free reign.

The piece had been simmering In my studio for a few weeks while I puzzled over how to finish it. Finally, last evening, I was finally inspired and completed it. The seed bead picot edging was something new I tried and I'm very happy with the result. The necklace portion includes the seed and bugle beads as well as some larger glass beads.

Mountains on the Mainland

I'd forgotten that I had this piece finished until I photographed another that I just finished last night. It's a miniature piece of art, created using hand dyed cotton fabric and a variety of seed beads, bugle beads and chips of semi precious stones. It was completed entirely by hand.

My inspiration for this beaded pendant (which is just the right size to hold a credit card) was the view from my livingroom window. I overlook ocean and outlying islands to the east as well as the mountains on the mainland. The colours of the mountains change constantly as well as the highlights and shadows, depending on the quality of light. How fortunate I am to have the palette of the universe to inspire me!