So hi there. Yes - in case you were confused, you are indeed at Kit Lang Fiber Art, and that is indeed, a quilt that I made. :)

Although my pieces are usually more vibrant and strong, spoken in voice that's confident, and this is a quieter voice that I'm not quite comfortable with; I'm using this particular challenge to push myself; learn as much as I can and trust myself as an artist/maker - even if that means I venture into territory in which I'm not particularly comfortable.  After all, doesn't art (even sometimes, really good art) come from a place of discomfort?

So, I'll be exploring on Fridays - trying out different things (like hand painting my own fabric and *gasp* hand stitching!) -  and I hope you'll enjoy seeing what I do.

http://kitlangfiberart.blogspot.ca/2011/01/come-and-take-walk-with-me-exploration.html

I don't know what this quilt will be called when it's done, but the whole time I was working on it tonight, the song "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars" was on loop in my head.  It's a beautiful song, so if it develops into an ear worm, at least it will be an enjoyable one! 

These are two of the four blocks for my first bed quilt of 2011.


While making these blocks (and some friends) tonight I discovered an ironic fact.  As you become a better quilter, you use the stitch ripper more. (That Universe.  So funny! S/he must have her little jokes...)

This quilt's gonna be a beaut! The next set of blocks are going to be a deeper version of the silk charmeuse and an irridescent silk taffetta in the mirror blocks.  Only 36 more blocks to go!

On Friday, I'll show you the first of my journal quilts. 

So, what are you working on?

This is my final piece in 3 Creative Studios' 2010 Art Quilt Challenge Group.

When we got the challenge word "destination", I immediately thought about the plans BSP and I have for our future.

ETA:  some folks have been commenting that I work really fast.  I don't, actually.  I work a lot, and I work hard.  I put in 30-40 hours a week on my quilting in addition to my day job and spending time with my family. So, I don't sleep.  ;)

Today is the second birthday of my blog.  My "blog birthday" also marks my quilting experience, and though it seems hard for me to fathom, my blog is only six months older than my quilting experience.  So I have now  been quilting for 2.5 years.

Okay, I know I'm early, but I'm so sick I don't think I'm going to be able to any proper posts before Saturday.

So Merry Christmas, happy holidays, good solstice, all of that.

See you next week!

Not to mention the achy flu symptoms.  *le wah*

And so, though I planned to have a finished art quilt to show you today, I'm going to be posting a couple more of the stockings I've entered in the mini-peep boot contest that Lizzie House is having.

This one's my favourite - faux pony and sequins and beading, oh my!  It's not quilted like the first one was, but I still think it's totally cute.




And speaking of "totally" - I am TOTALLY addicted to making these little numbers.  I want to make 20 or so of them and do a whole mini tree of them next year.  BSP thinks they're great fun and agrees that we ought to have a mini-stocking tree.  (You'd only know how amazing that agreement is, if you knew we already have four Christmas trees which get put up every year.)



And then I made another quilted one, which I had to bead just cuz they're saucy that way.  :)

I have one more that I want to make for the contest (a shimmery baby blue number) and I have until the end of the day tommorrow to do so - however, I've been so sick I literally haven't been able to stand for more than five minutes and get dizzy and nauseous if I do so.  Not to mention, that if I say more than three words I start coughing up my lungs.  *le wah*



Off to the doctor tommorrow for me; and maybe if I can, another mini stocking for the contest.

Hope you're all doing much, MUCH better than I am (it took me two hours to make this little post!) and I look forward to talking to you all later in the week.

Cheers,

Kit