Category Archives: Out and about

Ginny sculpture celebration


Today was the celebration of this sculpture being shared with the people of Seattle.I saw the drawing in my visit to Ginny’s studio and home earlier this year.7yrs in the making this moving sculpture downtown makes a great statement about Seattle.

I was 2 miles away creating tactile art

East to West

DC was amazing.Fantastic city.Will drip pics and experiences over the next few weeks-it will take that long.
The most amazing news was that I’ve been accepted to study fiber art at the University of Washington in the fall.
For now this is my fav image From DC.

Old Friend New Place

I’m in Washington DC !
I gave an interview this week and talked about story-telling art.Today we explored DC and what was the first thing we came upon-a Moore sculpture.

I’m amazed to be in DC and even more pleased to see my favourite sculptor.Here’s a more traditional view tourists and cranes so strangely  like another city

Found a friend !

Found Ginny’s piece on a Saturday morning drive through Seattle ! Brightened up my Saturday-Yes that’s Seattle and it’s sunny.Hubby was driving and got a long look from pedestrian as I got all excited, squeaking about Ginny’s pictures on her wall.

Best thing is I’ve discovered I can print images ATC sized .That opens a whole next opportunity and finally an excuse to explore our printer paper stash ( yes I have one of those too)

10 cents fun

Not temperature but book sales !
Today the teen needed airing.While I’m trying to make black and white christmas ornaments for submitting to a crafty mag-where do I end up but at the library.They were having a 10 cents end of the month sale.

This iMy first ever altered book.Text reads “I woman common”The book is a history of William andThe bottom shelf had old bound copies of Punch magazine.There was Jan-June 1967. This

This was my first big altered book project my “I” book .The Punch book covers  a significant time frame for me as I was born during this period.As with all altered books Punch sits in a special cubby waiting for the muse to be so that I have to alter them.I’ll dip into the text and try to understand the cartoons some are timeless, others need decoding for political and social context. Book trawling  probably the slowest part of the art I make but as most of the books are over 40 yrs old it seems fitting.

Why we do

This morning was a unique occasion the chance to visit the home of an inspirational couple.The docent family shared their home and art.One of our new graduates Katie explained that this was the most important part of being a docent and gallery duty was just an extra bonus.That and the gentle arm stroke from an honor docent who simply said “glad you decided to stay around” made my day.

Thought I’d share the flowers in my deck garden and flowers in my crafting space.Must be summer time.

Not crafting in a straight line

Earth Day Inchies Swap-Chin up Liz

So this weekend found me in Eastern Washington over the other side of the Cascades in the warm Walla Walla sun.

Perfect weekend for crafting, relaxing and eating amazing home-cooked food.I created two summer dresses for the young lady of the house.Free-knitted up my naughty supplies from Pike while the household slept in on Saturday morning into a small purse.The  inspiration can from the magazine I purchased on Thursday “Haute Handbags”.

We played with vintage crocheted dollies to make clutch bags.A nice way to remember a great Grandma.

Then I used all my dress making skills to create a a linen summer print tote and a couple of grocery bags.I left the house with one cut out next to the sewing machine for our host.Apologies to the rest of the household that all the crafting bins had been out and explored !

Missing Link

I was sure I’d posted this but it seems not.

This is one of my early quilts in the current series and the quilt that gave me the confident to work with the visually impaired to share art.
Today found us again at Seattle Art Museum were the wonderful Access docent group supported us in a tour of Nick Cave’s Journey to the Center of the Earth.
As ever these great docents added that extra dimension to the Art that makes it so rewarding for visitors.
I was way too indulgent in Pike Place Market after but we’ll see more of that later.

Special thanks to Kimberley of www.drivensimple.com for her pieces of tumbled glass we’re going to have fun with those.

Think Pink !

Can’t share this yet as it goes in the mail tomorrow but I made a totally pink jewelery quilt on Friday.
Great fun but i learnt that Seam to fuse is tough to work through by hand not an experience I’ll repeat.
Saturday was spent watch hummingbirds fledging at Nisqually Nature Reserve.
More pictures can be found here on Hubby’s website http://wildoutdoors.smugmug.com
http://wildoutdoors.smugmug.com/Photography/Hummingbirds/17062117_Z5x7hs#1292154500_6bWCfVg

Finally able to post !

This is Flowermouse’s swap and I posted it here as I really liked making the Art quilt.i have been exploring using Lutradur as a fibre.This was the first a many experiments.I used white gesso to paint the squares.Then applied metallic water colour. pencils,damped with brush to release colour.Blasting with a heat glue to achieve different effects.