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