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Finding your inner Dr. Seuss

I just started to work on this new section of the drawing book that I have so successfully used to draw squiggly critters. Drawing buildings is SO different than drawing people or animals - especially whimsical people or animals! But I am trying. My first effort has way too much going on but it was a great experiment and effort just to get over my clumsiness. I did really enjoy using my new set of Prismacolor pencils to add the color - reminded me of kindergarten!
My second drawing has some very specific problems - note the red shadows on BOTH sides of the purple thing - what was I thinking? Good learning experience though.



And the last one I sort of like. I seem to have a fondness for floating Swiss cheese planets - maybe that could be a quilt? We will see.......

Butterflies in the Garden

So what do I do when I am not quilting? Lots of strange things - but this week I made 10 butterflies to go on table displays at the Trout Unlimited fundraising banquet. I cut up some beautiful notecard watercolor photos of a butterfly (from Heron Dance), fused purple batik fabric on the back, added beading wire for antennae with tiny blobs (don't you just love these "technical" terms?) of Stickles glitter glue on the end to make them sparkle. Always having fun....
Barbara

About Between Sets

I love this quilt. I sold it to a good friend and am just tickled that it now lives in his house.
The black and white fabric for the jacket was a skirt that I found at a rummage sale - it was a really ugly skirt but a really great jacket because the black and white squares are some sort of sparkly little squares that in real life catch the light beautifully and add a lot to the quilt.
This quilt was in the Arkansas Governor's Calendar in 2008.

Between Sets

About Andrew

Andrew is a very large quilt (for me anyway). It is about 30" x 48". Do you recognize his face? Look at a $20 bill..... Yup. There he is.

Andrew