Go to my blog for further details.
neki desu
This blog is intended to be a summary of the monthly challenges offered by Sharon B on her blog, In A Minute Ago. It is a place to showcase the final pieces done each month.
Lock stitch sampler, on silk, embroidered with fancy threads, wool, silk ribbon, matches.
More on my blog.
I chose a cellphone pouch for me this month using the color palette. More on my blog
9" finished size square - Muslin, cotton scraps and batting
Read more about it here.
Just to let the group and Sharon know that I am still there. I am currently doing 2 projects but finding the time to complete with the irregular hours of my job, is a challenge in itself. Hopefully that will be resolving itself in the next week and I will so have these done to show.
I see myself as a craft-worker. By accident I create sometimes something what could be art, but I don't look at myself that way. I am a craft-worker and that is what I can.
The May colors are very feminine and while working on this piece , also on mothers-day, I would like to dedicate this page to all mothers.
The lace in the upper corner is one of my first bobbin-lace pieces I made, I have cut it in half now to emphasis the feminine look.
On the back is a sort of poem, a free translation:
Mothers-day.
Everything you really love
will always give warmth,
also when it is gone.
It 'll always be a part of you,
a piece of your life.
This piece is 14.5 x 17.5 and is a mixed media piece. The background fabric is hand painted. The snow on the right branch is the plastic snow that is used at Christmas for snow on Mini villages or scenes. It is glued down and then covered with white tulle. The snow flakes under the tree are snowflake charms. The flowers and grass on the bottom are free motioned as are the lines on the tree trunk. This was a tough challenge this month, and if I hadn't made the commitment to finish each months project, I would have stopped about 3/4ths of the way.
More detail is available on my blog at:
http://megabqfabricchallenge.blogspot.com/
I have also blogged my thoughts on the May challenge. I can't wait to start on this one.
Hi.
Blogged about the work i've done so far here
Won't include any image here to save bandwidth :)
neki desu

Take It Further - May
Originally uploaded by Pins and Needles
I had a hard time this month, deciding how to illustrate my thoughts on May's theme. I could put it into words, but how to put it onto a crazy quilt block???
But here is my finished piece - my blog describes how it relates to the theme of artist/crafter/whatever.
Jocelyn
http://pinsneedles.wordpress.com/