Hi there!

I wanted to share my latest obsession. My friend Gretchen taught a few of us how to make these bowls. They are made from clothesline and are addictive. I've made two. They are about 7" wide and 1 1/2" high.

These are the tops and the bottoms of the bowls.














Aren't they fun!

Hope all is well with you!

geneva

Yoo Hoo mug rugs are back in the show and tell section. Fabulous thank you anyone from TQS who reads this xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Great quilts, Geneva and Sharon, How wonderful to share your work! I wish I were close enough to see them in person!

Geneva, those quilts are over the top beautiful!! What an honor, and so well deserved. Congratulations!

What fun Geneva they are lovely.

Lotti, you are so correct about the cataract surgery. As far as surgeries go, it's very simple and painless and the benefits are amazing. My husband is amazed at how well he sees and how it has changed his life. 25 years ago and more, blindness was all that could be expected. And thanks for the information about the farfara! I love that name!

I belong to a small quilt group, we call ourselves the Gang of 5. We decided this year to try new techniques. Each of us would come up with something and we would have 2 months to make it. They are small pieces. Reminds me of our mug rugs. The first go around was my idea. It was fusing torn batiks to make a branch/tree. I made mine to be reminiscent of Van Gogh's starry night. I'm not as pleased with it, but next time I would know how to do it better. Always learning!




Then our next technique was making waves by turning under the curves, pressing them, and sewing it down to the next layer. It was fun. I added some embellishment for fun. And of course "whizzed around the outside edge" ala Wendy's instructions.




I'm also working on a bedrunner for my niece. I am ready to quilt it now and as usual I am stumped. But I will figure it out!

geneva

Thought I had already posted, but it seems to have disappeared into the ether...

Geneva, wonderful quilt show, great to see such a collection of quilts altogether.

Heather, i'm so glad your son is back among the living humans - hope the full recovery goes quick!

Geneva, good to read that your husband's cataract surgery went well - so great when sight can be restored - there are certainly great things possible with today's medical knowledge! Just a hundred years ago so many older people were reduced to near blindness which today can be fixed in a short surgery procedure.

Thanksgiving for the compliments. Yes I do use telephoto lenses but many of the animals I shoot are in enclosures where I can go in or near but the animals can decide how close to me they come. As I often spend an hour or two in the same enclosure just waiting and watching them, some sometimes accept me and trust me. The owls especially often fly to sit down on a post or fence right next to me (if I'm patient, quiet, wait a very long time and there are no or few other people around).

It's not a dandelion, it's a Tussilago farfara, commonly known as coltsfoot (in the daisy / Aster family). The stem is very scaly and they don't produce any leaves until the flowers are gone. One of the common names in Swiss German is 'Ziitroeseli' which can be translated as 'time rose' because they are a harbinger of spring. Appearing in mountains areas as soon as the snow is gone and the sun warms the area for a couple of days - often appearing in the rocky border at the side of the road when everything past the border is still covered with snow.
I love them because they bring the sun into the landscape when we most need it.

Have a great day everyone :0)

Geneva...LOVE your quilts!!!
Lotti as always, the pictures are awesome...the owl made me go awww

Dorothy

Thank you everyone for all the nice compliments. It was so awesome to see all my quilts together. I love color!!

Sharon, you will do fine! Keep at it!

Lotti, I love your pictures. I've always wanted to ask, how do you get so close to those animals? I'm sure you use a special lens, but still. It seems as if they could reach out and get you! I love how you took pictures of dandylions. Here in the US dandylions are a sign of neglect of your lawn. And I have always wondered why. I realize they are a weed, but still. Anyway, thanks for the eye candy.

My husband's cataract surgery went well. Yay! He's amazed at how well he can see! (I hope he doesn't notice too much that I look older than I used to! )

hugs to you all.... geneva

Geneva, congratulations on the wonderful exhibition of your quilts--such talent and diversity of designs and techniques. What a treat to see them on the Forum and so glad you had a great time!

Sharon, congratulations on your upcoming show--look forward to enjoying seeing your quilts too.

Lotti, welcome back and just loved seeing your photos, as always--such a talented photographer, always leaving the viewer inspired!

Wow . . .Geneva!!! I loved being able to see your quilts. All are just lovely and wonderful! Of course, my favorites are all the ones that shout with color! Lotti, your photos are amazing! You capture the best expressions with the animals and the floral photos provide such detail! I'm enjoying the row reveals too.

Geneva, what a wonderful display of all your hard work and gorgeous quilts! Absolutely stunning!!

Lotti love the photos, as usual; you are so talented!

Barb & Dawn, I received your rows and they are amazing! I really will take photos soon....over the weekend my middle son decided to come down with Influenza Type A, and my oldest had his cough return with a vengeance, so we sought a repeat chest x-ray to make sure it wasn't the pneumonia coming back (got the all clear this morning), but that has kept me busy tending 2 sick teens and entertaining a forlorn & lonely younger one who misses his big brothers (who are of course home, but mostly sleeping...).

Today the flu child woke up sounding human again, and the coughing-but-not-pneumonia-relapse kid shared the surprising news he hadn't coughed yet, at all, all morning before he left for his class, so (fingers crossed) maybe we are on the mend.

Luann, I'll photograph all my rows together and post, as I don't think I kept up with my album and then I lost many of the individual photos when our computer crashed last year, so a new group shot will be best anyway. Good idea.

What a treat this morning finding all this beauty here.

Geneva your exhibition looks wonderful, thank you for sharing it with us. Your quilts are amazing and look so good together, all that lovely colour. Congratulations

Lotti thank you for your fab pictures, you catch such lovely moments with the animals and such detail with the flowers, I love them