Wind dancing

February almost. Our winter weather has been so mild it feels as if spring is here all ready. But it is really a black and white world still. the grass has yet to green up. The trees are stark and bare against the sky.
Oh but that sky can be so blue! On the sunny days. The sunny days are also the colder days. So very deceiving! Yet, cold is not so very cold this winter. I am happy for that.

I am stitching away on the last of my Pay it Forward pieces. Once all that is finished and they are on the way to new homes I am turning my sights towards the stack of unfinished works.
Not to say that I will be finishing some or any of them.
Some will be altered. Some tossed aside.
I am just itching to try some new things out.
Some people start the new year off with a resolution.
 Or a word for inspirations.
A word I can live with.
Resolutions will be revolutions.
Rebellions.
I am going to
 FORGET ALL THE RULES.
Now there are some who would say that should be easy for me...
              shhhhhhh.
I hear rules in my head when it comes to art.
to quilting.
to fibers.
So I am going to turn a deaf ear to them all.
and do what ever my heart wants.
frayed edges? Oh hell yeah!
big stitches? you betcha!
weird stuff that doesn't belong attached to fabric?  yessirree.
Paints inks threads beads crayons will come out to play.
I am going to experiment, branch out, play play play!
So that pile of unfinished fiber objects will grow. That much I am sure of.
I am going to be like a feather in the wind.
land wherever I land.
and dance right there
until a wind sends me
elsewhere...

Finished!

ahhh finished! Baby Shelby now has her quilt.  A twinkle twinkle star quilt. Her big sister can sing the song to her because she knows it all by heart now.
With this finished I have pulled out some other unfinished works and will be trying to get them all done.
If I did resolutions at all, and I don't, this years would have to be to finish up unfinished works...
I have set the pile up on the work table where I can see it. I have finished one of them all ready and will be sending it off to a new home this week.
Also finishing up the pay it forwards... nearly done there.
It feels good to clear up the odds and ends.

january

This is January!?

It has been in the 50s' all week. No snow. Not a blizzard in sight. Climate change for sure. I do know that the long term look of this is not good , however I am really enjoying this warm winter.

A trip to the beach this weekend  for some photo ops resulted in a calm lake and tons of people and dogs about.

No snowy beach, smashing waves of ice, no drama...sigh.

just very

serene.

so nice.