I have completed my march piece for Sharon B’s Take it further challenge. I have created a little world where I can sit and enjoy the moment and contemplate the small details. See this post for my original thoughts on the challenge.
I have finished my Joyful wallhanging, and it has truly been a joy to work on through the cold gloomy days of the end of
I am not yet sure I am going to like the final product, but I am having fun with the execution of this piece.
Sharon B has posted her March Take It Further Challenge– “Do you notice the small moments, the details in life? This months challenge is to do just that- Pay attention to the tiny details. Sometimes the small things become emblematic for something larger.”
My first thoughts on this were to go totally blank. I am not always a very detail oriented person. Then I thought to take a close up photo of the details of something and do that up in fabric– Quickly rejected. Then I reread the challenge and the moments part grabbed me.
Life is made up of so many moments- both good and bad and I started
I have been working this weekend on the class exercises for the Playing with Lines and shapes class I am taking with Lily Kerns at Quilt University. I grabbed some of the bright scraps sitting by my sewing table from another project I am working on and embellished the piece with beads and a charm. It was a lot of fun to work on. I struggled with the binding on this piece and after the third redo just left it alone. It is frustrating that a little task like this that I have done hundreds of times before can still trip me up. So far these class pieces have all been done in a 4″ x 6″ format but I am hoping to develop one of them into a larger scale piece.
