Update: No I haven't disappeared off the face of the earth

It has been two months since I posted.  We returned from one trip (California) and went on another to New Zealand.  My excuse it that I just spent the whole time between trips getting over the first one and preparing for the next.

But then, I got to looking at my picture library, and I realized that I do have SOME works to report, two finished and three more "in process".  I know I took pictures of these projects, but I'll be darned if I can find them on  my computer.  ERG.  I guess that is the major drawback of digital photography, so many images that one or two small ones are hard to find.  I'll keep looking, or just take more to post here.

The Dream Harbor quilt and the Deer Lake quilt are both the kind of project I envisioned when I started this blog.  Small pictures made with pieced and ironed on fabric, embellished to show some detail.  I love them both.  Dream Harbor was a picture I saw in my mind as I was waking up one morning.  Deer Lake is from a photograph I took when Nick and I stayed at Deer Lake one spring.  Both of these are finished, bordered, quilted and ready to hang.  And now I am wondering, did I complete these prior to the beginning of this year, and that is why they are not listed.  The photos are labeled October 2011, so I am including them.

Deer Lake quilted wallhanging

Dream Harbor Wallhanging

Then in California I started several projects.  From Lytle Creek, I took many pictures and came up with this.

 Since I took this picture, I have added striping on the road (white fog lines, and center double yellow line), but it is still not completed.  It is fun though, and even in this incomplete stage, it makes me happy to look at.  I started a similar wallhanging showing Morongo Canyon, with a walking trail and large tree in the center.

I also started a wallhanging based on a picture my grandson sent me of a bonfire on their property.  This one really excites me, and I do hope to have that finished soon.

Another project is a color study, which seems to be part of a series I have been doing using pieced curves.  I saw a wall painted several shades of orange with black silhouettes on it.  I wasn't struck by the picture, but I did like the color scheme.  So I went to a local CA fabric shop and got three oraange fat quarters, dark orande, medium orange, and beigy orange.  In the original the last was beige with just a hint of yellow.  Then I combined these with pieced curves, and came up with something I really like.

I wish I could show it to you.  I saw the picture earlier, but have looked and looked and it has dropped off the face of the earth, or at lease, out of the Pictures file.  It's probably only a temporary condition, and it will reappear when it is good and ready.  Meanwhile, I am going to actually DO some sewing, not just blog about it.  I'll have to post pictures later.

Hope that is okay with you, and I hope you are doing things you really like to do, and not just reading blogs (unless that is a favorite activity of yours).