Imitating nature

We had our first snow this week.
The first day was good for making snow people.

The second day was crisp and cold. 

If you looked carefully you could
see the actual flakes.

Like tiny little crystals.

 Sugar frosted trees.

And an already fun game is so much better in the snow.

Thanks for visiting and I hope you are enjoying the season.

In the pink-

More pink for our 'Breast Friend's donation tree.

It was nice to use the donated pink fabrics from our generous quilting friends.  

We asked for scraps and got so much more.

Sort of like the story - "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"

I'll use the remaining pinks to make a comfort quilt for donation, maybe two.  

We used some felt.

And made a few bucks for the tree . . .   

. . .  he supports her when she gets 'it'.  

And she supports him,

because he can get 'it' too.  

 Every tree needs a simple skirt.

Pink corduroy with fused snowflakes.

Laura made us this pretty lady for our tree.

Our topper didn't work out as planned, so maybe she'll sit the top.  

I think she'll work perfectly.

 The workshop has been busy and fun.  

One last thing to do . . . 

My friend Donna gave me this pretty swatch and asked if I could make something special with it.

I will.

Tonight we set up our tree and the festival starts tomorrow.

If you are in and around the Blackstone Valley I hope you will attend.

You can find it on Facebook (which I don't have, but I think you can search)

Trees for Hope Festival

40 lighted, decorated trees will be raffled by ticket raffle.

All proceeds from the event go directly to the 

Oliva Fund for Cancer at Milford Regional Medical Center.

The Fund provides support to individuals and families undergoing treatment for cancer.

Trees for Hope Festival 

December 7, 9am-7pm

December 8, 9am-1pm

Saint Gabriel's Church 

151 Mendon Street

Upton, MA

Tree for Hope

-all decked out in pink-

 Sharon and I are donating a tree to the

Trees for Hope Festival. 

(info below)

We've made lots and lots of ornaments for our tree.  

All pink; support for our girlfriends.

We call our tree 

"Breast Friends"

. . .  we all know someone . . .

Our friend Joyce taught us how to make these cute folded stars. 

 Several Guild members donated pretty pink fabrics and made stars for our tree.

Thank you ladies.  

Friends supporting friends, it's a nice thing.

Barb made us these tiny pinwheels.  So cute.

 It's been fun working on this together.

Trees for Hope Festival

40 lighted, decorated trees will be raffled by ticket raffle.

All proceeds from the event go directly to the 

Oliva Fund for Cancer at Milford Regional Medical Center.

The Fund provides support to individuals and families undergoing treatment for cancer.

Trees for Hope Festival 

December 7, 9am-7pm

December 8, 9am-1pm

Saint Gabriel's Church 

151 Mendon Street

Upton, MA

The Understory

Today is the Artsquared online art quilt challenge group reveal. 

It was Donna's turn to pick the theme.

Donna chose 

'element'.

Many elements make up the rainforest. 

The understory is the middle of the forest between the canopy and floor.

  The piece is small, 8 x 8" but, a good exercise.

I'm enjoying working out the kinks in the background piecing for larger work.

The elements are all raw edged. 

When finished I wished the blue frog was three dimensional. 

Oh well.

Check out the other element pieces over on the artsquared blog!

Butterfly Garden

Have you ever visited a butterfly garden?

It's a mystical

magical place.

There is lots of green

lots of flowers

and lots

 and lots

of color-filled butterflies.

You'll be reminded . . . 

. . . but don't worry, they'll touch you.

If you can, you should visit a butterfly garden.

The butterfly garden was inspiration for my Art Squared Challenge.

Visit here and view the other artists interpretation of

mystical.

Fall back into blogging....

It's been quite awhile since I've put up a blog post. For no particular reason, really. But I've been busy; quilting, puttering, enjoying,the usual stuff...

Today is a gorgeous day in New England. Blue sky, crisp air and sunshine.  Fall is in the air today after a huge heat wave this past week. Waiting for my son's baseball game to start I was cleaning out some pictures on my phone,

when I remembered I could blog from my phone. So here I am....

This is my friend Glenda's quilt I quilted for her in the summer. 

Thanks for stopping by- Happy quilting !

spring is in the air

Handmade silk fibers and silk bark make up the bird and tree.

A few summers ago the kids and I took apart a baseball to see how it was made under the leather.   Hundreds of feet of string!  We tried measuring it but quickly gave up when we found it went on and on.  We wound it around a stick and saved it for something later...

And here this little bird finds her nest made up of that very baseball string!

This little project started as a doodle, practice piece.  Once the fabric was filled with quilting, I then added the tree with the bird and nest.

 Happy Spring Quilting!