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Showing posts with label green. Show all posts
Showing posts with label green. Show all posts

Monday, December 6, 2021

December remember

So ,  remembering  that i had been making stars blocks of red, green and off white  fabrics randomly and stashing them in an empty valentine chocolate box during the past year,  i finally put them together and  she is now under the darning foot of my Bernina 830 record and almost finished.  The strawberry fabric you see is the backing as this is not a Christmas quilt, i did not use any Xmas fabrics, just pulled  R/G/W fabrics from my collection accumulated decades ago. Am  almost to the hand stitching the binding. part, the home stretch, and then to make a label, then she will be done . This quilt is about 54 inches square and was a bit of a wrangle under the domestic and well aged Bernina, Bernie. i do have one a bit older and she is  known as Bernadette. i name my cats, my cars,  currently Ruby Ruby, and  sewing machines that i have become fond of. My oldest singer featherweight 221 is  known as Peppy Dora" as my mom gave it to me long ago. Oh and i always sew barefooted.






Saturday, July 27, 2013

Sweet smelling Saturday

Saturday's  sweet smelling surprises
 
Often the white flowers are very fragrant and heady to make up for their lack of color or did I read that or dream that ?
or perhaps learned in Dr Horace Clay's Botany class in 1980 something?
 what about the white pluemria lei that was placed around my shoulders the first time I set foot in the Hawaiian Islands, the one that said welcome home
 in invisible words only I could hear.
 
Even the papaya blossom so fragrant and enticing to the bee
smells like heaven on earth to me.
 



Spider Lily 's  white flower with stamens of a pinkish hue gives off a perfume not yet possible in bottles.
 
White or butterfly ginger ( Hedychium coronarium)
 
 
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else.
Georgia O'Keeffe
 
Butterfly or white ginger is another favored and fragile flower found in my yard
this time of year.
Each evening we pick a handful and fill the house with the most divine fragrance.
 
I am recovering from  last weekend showing at the
  taking  plenty of time to smell the flowers deeply.
Mahalo to all
new and returning folk, who came by to say HI
 and visit and to purchase  my fabric art!
Aloha, Sonja

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

easy seeing green!


Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Wholly Cuckamonga Batman!

                         
 the cucumber trade
with artsinthecards 
as is summer,
is almost over with my entry .
i tend to take a bit longer than usual as i have a few ideas stewing already
or i don't sign up.
all the ideas looked good in my art part brain, pretty good.
i will attempt to descirbe what i was thinking ..about the cucumber as a color prompt.
Green was top of the list.
well, it was the list.
then there is "cool as a cucumber in a bowl of hot peppers" a beasty boys lyric.
then Patty sent that frog card
and my imagination turned a corner.
My new mantra became
"Wholly Cucamonga Batman, it's easy seeing green!"
i just had a time of it getting my eye glasses the correct strength, but not too strong.
(my very first pair of prescription glasses
 came with red frames and i always loved them.)
i am seeing pretty good now with my new pairs of glasses.
while thinking just what my card might look like, i took a cucumber end slice, mixed some golden and navy ink and started stamping card stock for
 back of cards and envelopes.
(this round i used old stationary envelopes instead of a sewn up calendar pages.)
for the lens fabric i took more paint and finger painted circles on cotton then i sprinkled salt into center and let it dry.
i cut out the circles and placed them on background cloth and free motion sewed the lenses in place and doodled out the red frames.wabi sabi.
i added a bit of red paint and a bit of glitter paint to the frames and i was almost done. to get a bit of a shine to lenses, i painted a few coats of min wax over them.
i sewed backs to fronts after a little trimming to 2 1/2" by 3 1/2"
which is the standard size for ATCs artist trading cards
.

i hope you like my new cool shades of cucumber
 and the remains of your summer
.
what color are your glasses?