WISS

As you can see, we finally got the new floor down last Wednesday! Unfortunately, the molding and threshold haven't been done. Our contractor swears we are first and foremost on his list for tomorrow. Let's hope so. Steve won't let me put the kitchen table or the butcher block table back in until it's finished.


I've actually accomplished quite a bit this weekend. I rushed home early Friday and made Steve's Valentine card. Yesterday I made two cards for birthdays next weekend - mil and niece. They are already in the mail.

A couple of weeks ago I made a donation piece for the Salisbury NC animal shelter's auction which will be held March 7th. It was very cute and when I showed some people at work, one fell in love with it. She has an old Pug and asked me to make another just like this for her. Warhol Pugs - who'd a thunk?

I played with the photo (from a free-use website) in Photoshop - desaturated it and then played with the hues to get the 4 colors. I arranged them in Adobe InDesign, printed it out on fabric, and fused on a batting. I played with a variety of thread on a practice piece until I found the colors I liked and then threadpainted them using 2 different thread colors on each - a light and a dark. I couldn't decide how to finish it, so after putting on a backing and doing a pillowcase turn, I painted a canvas black and stitched the piece to it. I think that was just the ticket.

I also made some more leaf cards. I scanned some leaves back in the fall and printed them out on fabric to make cards and a donation piece for Alzhimer's. I printed some out today and stitched around them with copper metallic thread. Now I'm going to play with some beads on them to give the impression [hopefully] of water droplets. We'll see!