Wendy, beautiful piece, great fabrics.

Kathy

Wendy, I think it looks lovely as it is. Well you haven't got any water tumbling down the cliff side in your original picture, so that won't work. Perhaps you need a dog in it to liven it up

Geneva, congratulations on the newist members of your family.

Dorothy love your camping photos.

I'm not going to be a help, as I'm liking it the way it is,, but I can empathize with you. When you want more if something and it's playing hide and seek with your eyes! Take a chocolate break and put your mind into something very unrelated, then come back and see if it speaks to you about what it wants.
Enjoy the process, I sure am enjoying watching over your shoulder!!
Luann

We took a slice of landscape to make the quilt. This was my inspiration photo of my friends farm in Australia. Before you say it I omitted the dog.



And my quilt so far. I have to add stems to the waterlilies and some leaves then beads and sequins but could do with some advice on how to liven it up. Perhaps I should add some red to the green areas. The triangles represent the petals fading and drifting away. On our tutors quilt she had put squares and bling to represent water tumbling down a cliff face.

Dorothy thanks for the pics,I'd benxious camping with your neighbours

Geneva great news another little one. Enjoy the wedding, will you get to meet the new baby?

I did the circle with ordinary embroidery foot and zig zag stitch and wound my way out. I've only used the cording foot for the leaves and tendrils so far.

I've been playing with my piece from Sunday today and realise the bottom has wandered too far to the left so I cut some out, zig zagged it together again from the back and quilted some sari silk over the join. Living dangerously

Geneva, congratulations on the new addition to your family!!!! the fringe on the shawl is 1/8" satin ribbon. Have fun at the wedding

Karen, love the little one's outfits! Very cute.

Lotti, your pictures always make me say wow!

Wendy, I like your little piece. Very nice. How did you do the circular cording?

Dorothy, I like your shawl. Very pretty. What is the fringe?

Off for a family wedding this weekend! Giving the art quilt away. And, our nephew and his wife had their baby last night! Yay! They are the ones I made the rainbow baby quilt for.

Happy, happy times!

geneva

Wendy..that looks like fun!
Karen..the outfits are sooo cute! So are the kids
Lotti...love the pics:)

fab - thank you - great pics

couple of pictures from camping

This is a native American fancy dance shawl that I made about a year ago, now I am going to make the cape that goes with it....again, flying by the seat of my pants as I really don't know what I'm doing, but hopefully it turns out

Wendy, I like it.

Wendy, I like it.

Thanks it needs lots more working on. We used Temtex or similar as a stabiliser so no hoop was needed after all!

I layered pieces of hand dye then strips of different colour sheers and machined it down with various fmq designs then added bits of painted lace from old tablecloths and wedding bits (provided by tutor) and stitched into it and added scrim somewhere along the line. I finally got to use my cording foot to do the circle over the scrim that's something like the sun and corded the leaves in the bottom right. Stitched more random shapes as scattered flowers and that's about it so far. Phew

Wendy,
Your piece is way cool!! That's the most up to date phrase I've got. It's probably ten years old by now,, LOL
Your piece is very nice. What is the base fabric? And did you hoop it with that 6 inches or find a larger one?
Where did your embellishments come from? Oh, too many questions I suppose, but I'm very interested in the process.