Art Quilt, Journal Size, Quilts

Icecap Melting and Energy = Color = Energy

Guila Greer

I am so loving doing these journal quilts every month. Thank you Eileen (from Quilter’s Studio) for the demos and the inspiration!! I’m doing things that I never dreamed I’d do (painting) and have new confidence doing things that I’ve done before and needed motivation to pull out of my bag of tricks again.

This one is called Energy=Color=Energy and I had fun working improvisationally (is that a word) to create a feeling of energy and movement.

We did one using Angelina fibers – can you find the angelina? This is a little reminder of global warming called “Icecap Melting”

Accessories and Ornaments

Projects Completed Recently

Guila Greer

So here we are halfway through January and I feel halfway recovered from the holidays. Actually I’m pretty much caught up except I started to really clean my home office (translation = throw out junk) and it looks messier than ever. I picked up a couple of wheeled carts from Staples and they are proving to be very useful for storing all my specialty papers, labels etc.
OK, so here’s how I did on the holiday sewing/knitting prep. Most of the sewing got done; very little of the knitting. The cute hat for my great niece was finished but I did something weird and it’s not getting on anybody’s head – very tight carryover of color change yarn I think.
This is the tote bag that I made for Grandma Betty’s caregiver.
I’ll post photos of some of the other completed projects.
Life

Help – what to do first?????

Guila Greer

So here I am sitting with my laptop instead of with my knitting or at my sewing machine. There is so much to be done over the next month. Maybe if I make a list it will somehow make it more manageable. Or, heaven forbid, it might be too scary.
Let’s see: sewing projects: 4 way placemats for DS and his family and for DM; doll dresses (already cut out); finish wall hanging for DDIL; make tote bag for DMIL’s caregiver.
Knitting: hoodie for DGD1; sweater for DGD2; doll dress; cute toddler hat for DGNiece.

But what I REALLY want to work on is my journal quilt for this month’s demo class. It needs to be completed by a week from Saturday. This month we’re incorporating foiling into our journal quilt. Last month it was Shiva paintstiks. I can’t wait to see what she’ll demo next time.

And I want to finish my wall quilt – a hollow cube arrangement in batiks.
And to get a couple of pair of socks knit up.

Well, time to do some knitting.