New Work

Cappuccino, Prega! is now hanging in the restaurant and receiving lots of compliments. I'll Take Mine Black! is still waiting for its finishing touches. I've done a bit of embroidery on it - Portuguese Stem Stitch along the small placemat, colonial knots along the edges of the cup, and some running stitches and colonial knots along the edges of the saucer. I also did a crazy quilting seam motif along the seam separating the table and the wallpaper. It's still missing something, and I'm waiting for it to tell me what it is. I'll let you know.

In the meantime I've started some small floral pieces - again, I think they'll go nicely in the restaurant and will fit in the shadow boxes I had used to hang my journal quilts. Here's what they look like so far:

These aren't original designs; they're from a Quilt University class with Debbie Babbin. These classes are really helping me spend quality time in the studio and I'm learning a lot about color in the process. Next steps are thread painting the flower and leaves, adding a bit of texture, and then calling them done. The finished size is 6" x 8".

Time to move my chair from my desk to my sewing machine!