Sanctuary finally Finished

Sanctuary, or Is It?


I've been working on this piece for a while had it almost finished when I put it aside to spend this past week with our family.

Sanctuary came about after we had been to Harbor Island, SC to stay with friends.   There is a bird sanctuary within walking distance of their home.  Often we sit out on their back porch when the sun is setting and watch the birds fly over our heads on their way to roost.

We often go down to a landing for a little bird watching.  Sometimes the nest are close enough to see the babies.

Birds are not the only animal we see at the sanctuary.   Great big and tiny alligators.  Turtles and a few snakes.

I chose to add the alligator to show that sanctuary doesn't always mean  "A place of refuge or protection".

More on the construction in the next post. 

A day of Sewing and Unsewing

It's been one of those days. The quilting process is far from my favorite part of making a piece of fiber art. I thought I was really making progress today, the top of the quilt looked quite good. It was only after I quit for the day that I found all kinds of weird things going on behind the quilt. Just finished taking out all the work I did today. Not happy! This makes me really want to stop and create a new top but I have to get over my reluctance to this process, so I will continue again tomorrow. I did stop at the end of the day to put together a few things to take to NC with me. It looks like we are returning again soon and I really need to have something to keep me together. Bear with me, Blogger has updated and for some reason I can't get paragraphs to come up in my message.

Home Again and Working in the Studio

It is so good to be back home again and to have time for working in the studio. I started Sanctuary quite a while back. I put the layers together ready to quilt and haven't had time to do so. I often put off the quilting part since it is not my favorite process. I didn't do that intentionally this time but life has had other things for me to do.

I'm hoping to finish the quilting this week because I have an exciting new project I'm ready to begin. I've know since Jan. of 2010 that I had to have a challenge finished for Sept. of 2012. Our HiFiber group is putting together a challenge for "The Artist Lost" in Seneca to run the same time our local quilt guild, Lake and Mountain Quilt Guild, has it semi annual show. The challenge is called "Strip". I have been drawing a blank on what to do but think I have finally had the inspiration. I'm ready!