Inspiration from rust - again!

How about this for inspiration!

Last month a collegue brought this in for me, knowing that I have an obsessin for rusty objects. He'd found it on a beach (he beachcombs for wood which he creates into wonderful objects) and thought of me! We think it was some sort of support for a post. When he found it, it was the other way up but when he gave it to me I turned it upside down and immediately saw a bird. I then "acquired" a tripod from a science lab and the garden sculpture was born. Even the tripod has rusted nicely in the few weeks it's been outside. My collegue admitted if he had seen the bird I might not have got it!

I think now that I will have to create something inspired by my new garden sculture. Watch this space!

More postcards

I've been having a clean out and found some half made fabric postcards so I finished them and will probably put them on my Folksy store. I've neglected it recently and feel the need to go back and try again.

They were made with some scraps of blue batik fabric that I had left over from a quilt I made last year.

Journal Quilt Project

I've signed up for this year's Journal Quilt Project with the Contemporary Quilt Group. I've recently become a member so thought it was a way to get involved. It has to be 10" x 10" and for the first four months must inlcude a circle.

As this month has been so grey I felt the need to reflect this in my quilt. I also used the phrase "behind every cloud, the sun is shining". All the fabrics are commercially bought but I have added various media on top. The left hand panel is over printed with circles using bubble wrap to represent the rain drops. The centre panel is printed with a block made from string which I made when doing Creative Sketchbooks - this represents the bare trees that contrast against the grey skies. The final panel was over printed with grey and silver fabric paint which had been painted on to bondaweb. Each panel was then free machine quilted. The silver circle is layers of silver and white organza.