WIPs Landscape Quilts

I have 5 landscapes of Rocky Mountain scenes underway at the moment.

I finished 10 landscape cards that I made mostly to try out my new sewing machine.

                                                new Bernina especially for free motion

Works in Progress and Some Finished Objects

I finished the quilting on a landscape I started last year. This is the view of McGillivary hills from the Pritchard area.

mug rugs underway on my little loom

3  chenille, supplementary warp scarves waiting to be tagged

another warp ready to go

Thompson Valley Potters & Weavers

Last Saturday was the Thompson Valley Potters and Weavers Guild sale downtown.


The show was very well attended and people were coming in and shopping all day. I did well and was excited because I sold lots of big items ( as well as other items), including my long "Tranquille Spring" fabric landscape.  I also sold the expensive puff chenille poncho like the one I gave to Corrie. I only made 3 and now they are all gone.


The people that bought the big landscape, also bought a smaller Kamloops Lake landscape and were sneaking around buying  the Tranquille one as a Christmas gift for a woman from Vernon who fell in love with it. It's the biggest peice of art I've ever sold. I just tried making the bigger peices last winter to see if I could do it and managed to get 3 out of 4 peices finished . Two have now sold. It's nice when people appreciate your work especially art.

I always sell lots of weaving but the landscapes are more fun!


Now I just have to weave more scarves for a few galleries that want my work before Christmas and then I'll have time to play again!

Finally Finished

I finally finished three  out of four of my landscape projects from this spring. They are stretched around artist canvases and stapled at the back. I work on a muslin background and use steam- a- seam to fuse fabric pieces down. I mostly work free -form from photos and don't cut pattern pieces. The sky is hand painted with Seta colour fabric paint. I find it easier to find skies in the colours that I want if I paint them myself.  The pieces are free-motion stitched  with invisible and decorative threads. I used angelina for the mist on the mountain and added beads and embellishments.

These two are from a picture from the Dallas- Barnhartvale nature park looking towards town.

This one is 36 x 12 and is a from a picture that I took last February of Kamloops Lake looking toward Mt. Peter and Paul. There was skim of snow on the hills.