{quirky house...}

Well here it is.  The quirky little house quilts.   All lined up

and ready to be attached as soon as I get to the hardware store.

So I can't hang it on the wall yet.

It's a fun piece that gave me a chance to try some ideas out for putting

quilts in frames.

{roof top bird...}

Final photo for the roof top frame

of my 3 part house.

It's quilted and ready for its frame along with the door knob and window photos

 from the last couple of posts.

The frames are painted but I think I am going to grunge them up a bit first.  

I will have the quilts in their frames soon.  And will post maybe yet this weekend.

I will also need to finish the backs neatly once the quilts are in their frames.

I have a couple of ideas for that too which kept me awake last night thinking about it.

It will require a trip to the store first.

{We Are Nourished...}

by earth's beauty

{ok, I couldn't wait...}

I had to "fix it" now.  (see previous post for the source of my obsession)

After making a latte I had a

couple of more minutes in me to give it a quick try.

It worked and I do like it better

{Windows, Windows and more Windows...}

So I had an idea.  Now that I have quilted and framed the little photo quilt

from this post.  Which I like well enough but it's not wow!

The photo is a door knob which is a part of a house.

I thought why not make the whole house.

I would make 3 separately framed quilts that would  be

hung together as a single house.

The bottom would represent the door

The middle frame would be a window

And the top triangular frame the roof.

So here are the candidates for the window quilt

This top photo, which was the last one I created has the lead at the moment

After creating the photo below I created this one which was the fave when I did it.

But after creating the top one I don't like this one so much.

These two were the first and last I created.  The photo above was

the one I liked best but I had a hard time getting much color in it.

After playing with the other two photos I came up with the one below.

Which has a close lead for favorite.  Later I may try and

sharpen it up a bit before I decide which one to go with.  OR not -

as this one  looks kind of dreamy

the roof photo will have to wait.  I need to get off this computer.

It's a love hate kind of thing

{Why I Wake Early...}

Why I Wake Early ~ Mary Oliver

Hello, sun in my face.

Hello, you who made the morning

and spread it over the fields

and into the faces of the tulips

and the nodding morning glories,

and into the windows of, even, the

miserable and the crotchety –

best preacher that ever was,

dear star, that just happens

to be where you are in the universe

to keep us from ever-darkness,

to ease us with warm touching,

to hold us in the great hands of light –

good morning, good morning, good morning.

Watch, now, how I start the day

in happiness, in kindness.

{new fiber experiments...}

So you might ask what is all the PSE about from

a fiber artist's blog?

This is why.  I am building a inventory of altered

photos to use in my fiber art.  The  altered photo from last

week has now been printed on a sheer fabric shown below.

As I am in the experimenting what if-ing stage and I didn't have

any freezer wrap on hand to adhere the sheer fabric to for

printing.  So I used an image transfer sheet instead.

It came out a bit raggy and was distorted after transferring

to the sheer fabric.  But it ironed out flat.  So all in all not to bad.

The raggy part has an appeal all to itself.  Which I like.

Below

is the original altered photo transferred to cotton fabric, pieced

to create a mini art quilt top.

I usually print directly on the cotton fabric but again

experiment what if-ing with new things I did a transfer instead.

It does change the hand of the fabric more but again not

necessarily a bad thing for my purposes

Below

 is the mini art quilt with the sheer fabric image laying over

the top of the cotton fabric image.

 This process is known as a holographic looking image.

I am not sure this is the best photo for this process as the original

photo already has sort of a ghostly affect to it.  The sheer may just

be too much.  Then again I haven't worked with this before so I'm

still not sure which I like best.

Either way I will be quilting the top here soon.

{glad I stuck with PSE...}

I have wanted to do something with a door for a while

but had many failed attempts.

Finally I have one a really like

I have already transfer it to fabric and will make a small

art quilt with it.

I like this so much I think I will make a new blog banner from it.