I had all my posts for this week planned and just as I was ready to hit "publish" this morning,  I said to BSP, "Is it Wednesday or Thursday today?"  I was going to publish Thursday's post. And then I couldn't find my Wednesdy post. But it turns out I forgot about Wednesday. Poor Wednesday!

You know, for a first effort at painting on cloth, I'm pretty chuffed with this result!  I was just kind of playing with the paint on the cloth, trying to figure out what it would do - not really trying to achieve anything in particular, so when the "plain" cloth as it was, was so clearly meant to be this ...


all I needed were my charcoal sticks (the bottom row in the pic above) and some pastels (top middle section).


And of course, some thread!




As I added the charocal and pastels to the piece and it revealed itself more fully to me, I thought about time.  How it moves, how we think we are standing still in it, and yet it changes us without our even knowing, moving us along to a place that's new.  If we resist that movement, standing firm in the place we've claimed, it will wear us down until we no longer exist.


But if we embrace it, let it take us where it will; we will all be made softer, purer with age ... and the kindness of erosion.

So, I've continued to work with fabric paint, this time without the soy wax.  I ended up with this:



But I didn't leave it like that of course, I went to work on it with the tools you see under it in my drafting table (yes, those would be fugitive media items!)....




and after some judicious application of charcoal and pastels, I painted over it with the 50/50 blend of base extender and hung it up to dry.  Finished piece tomorrow!


And as for the winner of the tote bag and the name that quilt contest:

Shimmerwood Forest wins!  Email me at kit.lang.ltd@gmail.com with your colour choices and your snail mail address!



And Ms Lottie - you too win a prize, only because you had me giggling so hard.  I very nearly named the quilt "Robert" because it tickled me so much!

So you win one of my little lunch bags - they're plastic lined with a drawstring top and button closure.





Let me know what colourway you'd like at the same email address above.

Congrats to the winners!

Wanna see what $385.46 worth of thread looks like?




And THAT's not all of it (love those luscious turquoise blues - one's a heavy mercerized cotton, and the other is a poly);



this mixed soft set,

I'm not sure whether I've ever shown you this little guy - it's a quilted tissue cover I made to go with those little paintings - together they rest on one of the walls of my cubicle area.  The black background is a heavy (HEAVY) satin, and you may recognize the bird as being cut out from the immensely popular "bird" fabric that Ikea had a couple of years ago.  I still have a precious yard of that left.

And here's my list of why I love Fridays:



(card from Blyberg.net).

Next week, I'll have a finished art quilt to show you, a finished quilt, a fabric painting technique and one last giveaway (a fun one, I promise!); over the weekend I'll do a couple of slice o'lifes - should be a great week.

See you tomorrow!  Or not, if we're raptured... if we are, thanks for the memories!  ;)