Favorite Place

My list of favorite places is long and sweet and, while none of them are in Kansas, they all look a lot like home.  I chose to illustrate the first backyard I remember with the view from my bedroom window.  The woven background represents a patchwork of backyards mine was part of.  The tree was an ancient, gnarly, Golden Delicious.  Perfect for climbing, hiding, reading.  Of course all this brought to mind ( to haunt me!) Yeats' "Song of Wandering Aengus" and "the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun."  As much as I like the poem, I soon regretted choosing metallic fabrics as they are so difficult to work with and to photograph.  I fused two pieces of fabric back to back, cut out the shapes and tacked them onto the quilt with handstitched stems and veins which worked fairly well.  My favorite challenge thus far as I revisited a very pleasant time and place.

The Four Elements - Judy

I really tried to work with the alchemical elements but my brain kept swerving off toward the actual elements.  So I ended up with curvy logs representing four earth elements as building blocks, occurring in veins.  This piece is a journal page, hence the odd shape.  The backside didn't work out according to plan, but I posted a photo of it on my blog if you'd like to see.  I really enjoyed the improvisational piecing and have been working on two additional pieces since finishing this one.