Monday, February 23, 2009

Catching the comments.

Thank you for all the comments. I forget to read them but glad that people are seeing them. To answer a couple of questions the little faces are glass beads that I found in the bead shop in Queenstown, New Zealand (www.queenstown-nz.co.nz ) when I was there in August last year for a conference. Unfortunately I only bought 10 of them but I have an idea for a different face for the January piece so hoping that inspiration will come for another month.

I have had lots of fun doing the backgrounds that I think the beading is covering it but I am also learning how to put less into the background. I have found in my stash several other things that might get used for backgrounds so my idea of having 12 peices the same size is officially flown the coop. I like the way I have finished the november piece with the machine stitched edge and the fact it is not square I found hard to work with initally but put the scissors away (I kept trimming the edges) as the perfect, logical me was coming out and I was forgetting the creative part of the process. I am looking foarward to stitching on the february piece and have decided that my calendar is obviously from Mars or PERN (Practically Earth Resources Negligble - for Anne McCaffrey fans) as it is different ordered to the Gregorian Calendar in my day job.

3 comments:

pam T said...

I think your backgrounds are great - I am anxious to see what you do with them!

KV said...

As a devoted McCaffery Pern fan, I loved your comparison!!! Those Pern books helped get our boys to become great readers when they were younger . . .


Kathy V in NM

Robin said...

I'm intrigued with your "invisible" piece and with the patchwork backgrounds. What an interesting process it must be to work on more than one piece at the same time. I always finish one before I begin the next. No reason... just how it happens. Thanks for posting your inspirational work!!! Robin A.