The wee charm on this piece was resurrected from my jewellry box. Back when I was a Serious Runner (30 years ago) I wore this on a chain around my neck and was rarely without it. The cute tape with footsteps on it was a recent find (Wednesday) at a scrap-booking store in Stettler (Pages in Time -- sorry, no website to be found).
But the focus of my work this week has been the 12" square piece I've been working on for the SAQA Western Canada exhibit, "Meet the Best of the West". This piece hasn't come easily to me, as regular readers no doubt know. I've struggled and sampled my way through it, fighting the Voices In My Head every step of the way to get my vision from photo into fabric. I began to make some progress, though, when I began to hand stitch on the piece. Here's just a taste of it:
While I've stitched I've been taking in online Inspiration to Quilt Expo -- interviews with the nominees for "Most Inspiring Teacher of 2011", quilt galleries, a demo area and of course a merchant mall -- and some more episodes of The Quilt Show, which I absolutely love.
Third in the embroidery line up is a project about which I'm not prepared to say much, but here's a peek:
I'll tell you this much: it's red-work. This is the first of six embroidered blocks, to be assembled into a quilt with six red-and-white pieced blocks, plus sashing. Stay tuned...
And for a break in the evenings...some knitting on the Dr. Who Scarf, on which I'm making very steady progress:
