Field Trips in Fiber - Adventures in quilting, hand dyed fabric and fiber art.

Hour A Day Quilt

One last thing to post today. I got my version of the April Quilt For An Hour project loaded on the longarm. Since it's going to be a male QOV, I decided to quilt it with the Square Spiral panto. I think it's a good design for a masculine quilt. I wasn't going to bother to post a photo but realized that with the new camera I can finally show the accurate colors of this quilt! I will be so happy to have these fabrics out of my house! I've never been so disappointed with a fabric before. I know that these batiks are very popular with lots of quilters but I'm willing to bet they haven't washed them yet. The colors fade horribly after the first wash. My own hand dyes hold up better than this. I think these may actually be painted rather than dyed. Oh well, live and learn!

"Air" Postcard

The Quilting Adventures postcard swap theme for this month is "air". This one was difficult for me. I'm not particularly thrilled with what I ended up with but I ran out of time! I decided on "clouds" as my inspiration and call this one "clouds are jewelry for the sky".

Here's the card and how I made it

Birds and Dogs

I posted  the other day about my baby bluebirds and our visiting dogs. Today the third dog also came.

He's my favorite and we call him "Buddy". We don't know his real name. He's been around the barn a few times and is starting to have trouble walking. We see him less and less often. We first met him when he and Girlie had a Groundhog treed on our property. They stayed after it for hours - until DH finally got them away from the tree. We later discovered that fresh Groundhog is one of his favorite treats. We weren't too happy with him the time he dragged parts onto the front porch to eat. He didn't do that again! When he's lounging in the grass and you walk up to him he rolls over to be ready for his belly rub!

Postcards Received

I have received several postcards in the past few weeks. It's time to catch up on sharing the photos! It's such a pleasure to get art in the mail - so much better than bills.

Baby Bluebird Update

Look how much the baby bluebirds have grown in two days!