sailing and (e)mail

Above picture shows what the mail brought me this week. Vicky had a leap day give away which I won. She send me a fat quarter of her handdyed fabric and a template with butterflies. I am certain that I will find good use for these goodies. Thanks Vicky!
Also I got this week an email letting me know that one of my quilts is selected by jury to be exhibited at the International Exhibition on Textile Art "Scythia7" in the Ukraine in June this year. Another country to add to my list of where my quilts have been shown :-).

A few days ago I showed the first layout for my black and white quilt which I am making for Pamela Allen's class. After her critique I made some changes to it, like a different fabric for the palm trunks and added some rigging to the sailing boat. I rawedged all the pieces, trimmed the quilt a bit so that it is now 20"x20", quilted it and added a binding. I am calling this 'Sailing to the tropics'.

beach and sailing boat

This week I worked on 2 quilts at the same time. One is the black and white sailing boat of which I showed a picture earlier this week. Some small details have been changed to the original lay-out. The other quilt is for the beach theme with the Challenge quilts group. On both quilts I only have to add the binding and the sleeve. Expect pictures later this week.

Sailing

At the moment I am taking Pamela Allen's class Think like an artist. For the first lesson we have to make a still life using only black and white fabrics. No rotary cuttor or templates are allowed, everything is free style handcut. This is a picture of my first attempt. I guess I will have to make a few changes to it before I can start stitching because when I look at the picture I realise that it is a bit difficult to see the boat and part of the trees.