Wisdom & Beauty

Today I’m in the process of wrapping up some things that have been waiting for me. My felted pins will find their new home in our local gallery Artist Alley. I’m excited about this, its another first step to really being professional with my work.

Another thing that I’m doing is getting all my donation quilts ready to go to Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative. You have to register your quilts first. Of course, other things have always been in the way, so today is the day I registered them. I also scanned the pieces so Ami can have them uploaded to the web site more quickly. Of the work that I did for AAQI this summer, there are two that I really enjoy. I would like to keep them…but they need to be somewhere else.

The quilts belong to a 2-part series I made. With both quilts I quilted plain white muslin and then colorized the quilted fabric with water color pencils. A little spritz of water and the tie-dye effect appeared. The fabric was nice, but it needed something. I hand embroidered flowers and then added rubber stamped words to express the emotion.

There’s something about the color and simplicity of these quilts that I find striking. I am also becoming intune to using words on quilts. What a way to get people to think. Of course, that’s only what “nanette says.”

They’ll be off to Flint, MI soon. I hope they bring joy to the next owner and lots of money for AAQI.