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COMMENTS CLOSED - Thanks everyone!

It's a Saturday post and you know what that means... a surprise giveaway!

I'm participating in the Quilting Gallery's Blog Hop Giveaway and I'll be drawing on September 4 (my birthday) to give YOU a present!

I'll be giving away a copy of:

and four fat quarters of Kona Solids!

If this is your first time here, I hope you'll have a look around and maybe come back again - and please have a look at all the great blogs on the blog hop.

To enter the drawing, like my Facebook page and after you've done so - leave a comment here letting me know.

Good luck, and have a great time on the hop!

ETA: Please be advised, if you've "liked" my page and have neglected a step along the way, I won't get a notification from Facebook, and I don't get it, you're not eligible for the draw. Please ensure I get that notification if you want to win!

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Finished!

Although BSP said this piece was like champagne, to me it seemed like the way an aria would look if you could see it as it came out of someone's mouth - so I called it Un Petite Chanson (A Little Song). However, I should have called it "Rorshack Test", given the comments this week as I was making it! :)

BSP seemed quite confused by this piece, feeling that it was quite a lot outside my usual oeuvre - but to me it seems very much like Flotsam Meets Japan - only in a more monochromatic palette.

One of the things I love about this piece is that it can be hung either way, depending on how it will fit in your decor!

So pretty - even if I do say so myself!

Have a great weekend and I'll see you on Monday with more new beginnings!

Linking up with the Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday, hosted this week by Amy at Craft Shenangians (what a great name!) and Off The Wall Fridays - a new link party for fabric artists.

So, on Monday I showed you a piece of rust-dyed fabric and some hand-dyed fabric that I was making into a little pretty. I started quilting it, as you can see ...

These are some of the fun shapes that I'm working with!

I'm joining in on the fun at WIP Wednesday with The Needle and Thread Network. Come and see what other Canadian fiber bloggers are up to!

Do you remember when I made Ontology of a Rabbit? The background fabric in it was a piece of rust-dyed fabric. I knew immediately what I wanted to do with the rest of it so I decided that it was time to put that idea to the test!

I also had a piece of hand-dyed fabric from Vicki Welsh that was a lovely complementary colourway - and combined it with the rust-dyed piece to make something cool.

I fused them both and began cutting them out, ironing them on, and now comes the labourious process of stitching them all down with invisible thread.

See you Wednesday!

Ta dah!!! lol Okay, maybe I shouldn't toot my own horn, but I LOVE this piece - and I love even more that it's made from fricken paper towel that should have been tossed out! (Or I guess, should never have been tossed out. )

I quilted it to a piece of red wool serge (the stuff the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's uniforms are made out of - for no good reason except that I had an appropriately sized piece on hand)

and then cut out bits from my Japanese papers and stitched them.

With addition of some wooden beads, I called it "done" except that (having planned ahead) I had purchased some ready-made canvases to fuse the whole thing to, as I didn't know how well binding a paper towel would go!

I used my gold leaf marker to "paint" the edges of the canvas, and then I really *was* done.

Yay!

P.S. joining in the fun at Mama Love Quilts through Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday go check out the fun!

I actually got this idea from Deborah O'Hare over at Quilt Routes (exhibiting at Booth O14 at Festival of Quilts, this week). Some time ago, she talked on her blog about saving her paper towels for future use in her art. (What she does HERE.) http://quiltroutes.blogspot.ca/2011/09/scrappy-journal-part-1.html I thought it was a cool idea, even though I didn't think I had any intention of working with paper - but decided nevertheless that I would dry out every paper towel I used when I was painting, and save the pretty ones.

I've got a pretty good stack of them now, but when I saw THIS one, I was all... hoooolllyyyyy mackeral. That thing is GORGEOUS. So I had to make something out of it!

There was a big hole in the middle of it from my rubbing during clean up, so I trimmed it out and seamed it up. ( I guess I should add here that it has to be really good quality paper towel to hold up to quilting and stitching.)

I also made a little trip to the The Paper Place and picked up a bundle of some lovelies - including this 6 x 6 sheet of gold with lettering above (If anyone knows what that says, let me know!)