On the Design wall

"Galveston Chair" is on the design wall (the purple, green, and red at the top aren't part of it). The blue green background looks pretty dull here but will be brightened with quilting. The old red ties will be cut out more around the pattern to have less red showing; I like the movement they add. I'm thinking there will be some marsh grasses in the lower right and maybe a few shells.
Getting this up is good. Most of the day was focused on bookkeeping and taxes so I'm glad to have some creative progress.

Rainbows for Monday morning.

This is the first week day after the time change which always throws me off kilter. This morning is starting off extra slow. I'm recovering from weekend babysitting duty.
There's a damp wind which I hope brings much needed rain. Here's a bit of fun & day brightener: find the colors of your rainbow at http://spacefem.com/quizzes/rainbow/. Mine is violet. That's not too much of a surprise but it would be more true if there was a nice green thrown in to the mix. Maybe I'll do some dyeing today to balance out the necessity to work on taxes and bookkeeping.

Miss Me?

I hope so. Hard to believe it's been over a week since I last posted. I've found that I like blogging and it helps me focus on art but the last 10 days was been anything but focused. First K&I ran off to Austin for a quick visit. We got to see the first video sonogram of grandchild #1 - exciting and fun. On the 23rd I had the embarrassing experience of getting a nasty bug right in the middle of teaching a class. The students were wonderful and carried on quiet well. I'm sorry that my pictures of their work came out about as fuzzy as my head. The blurriness of head and body lasted several more days.

Happily, the next time I looked out spring was on it's way to Texas and I recovered sufficiently for a trip with 3 girlfriends trip to Karey Bresehan's Creativity Center in La Grange. She hosted an open house for Virginia Spiegel and Carol Moore who had been there during Feb. making fabulous fiber art. The day was wonderful. Virginia Spiegel has great posts on her blog about the work she did and Kay Sorensen, among others, has great posts about the day. Karey was a generous and gracious hostess and it was a picture perfect spring day; unfortunately I didn't get good pictures. It was also fun to meet many fellow art quilters from quiltart list and I hope there's another such happening next year.
The "4 fast friends" finished off the trip with dinner & PIE at Royers Friday evening; a sleep over at a fun little B&B near Round Top and a visit to Antique Rose Emporium before heading home on Sat. We packed in a good bit of inspiration and are already talking about future adventures together.

Now I'd better take that inspiration to the sewing machine to have some work of my own to share.