Autumn Color

Although we don't get much autumn color in Central Texas, the red oaks are turning a beautiful shade of red right now.  I will enjoy the color while it lasts.

Calavera

I just finished working on Calavera.  It's a wallhanging I made in response to the Austin Area Quilt Guild's challenge on using the color wheel.  I decided to make mine monochromatic (which could include black and white).  Of course I didn't get it done in time to submit it, but I really like it.  The flower is made of batiks in the style of the Mexican crepe paper flowers.  The beads at the bottom and on the flower are clay beads I bought a few months ago at the Austin Bead Show.

Please forgive the quality of the photos--I will eventually buy a good camera.  In the meanwhile I just play with my iPhone camera.

Houston Quilt Festival & Make It University

I've returned from the Houston Quilt Festival inspired to create.  I had enough time to see every quilt exhibit, peruse and on occasion purchase some of the many vendors' fine wares, sew two quilt tops for Project Linus, luck into three (count them, three) Make It University classes, volunteer at the SAQA booth, and play with my newly bought wares in my hotel room with my roomies, quilt artists Barb Forrister, Kharon Clark, and Marge Carson.

I didn't take very many photos since I was too busy enjoying myself.

Pokey Bolton of Quilting Arts Magazine starting a demo at Make It University.  I don't know how she managed to keep her energy up for the duration of the quilt festival.  She and her staff were amazing.

My Candy Apple quilt at the Misty Fuse vendor booth.  Iris was doing a very brisk business in the booth.

The fabric postcard I made in Leslie Tucker Jenison's class.  Leslie is in my friend Barb's art quilt group in Austin.

Art Spark Theatre Drawing Challenge

I found this challenge through a posting on the Spirit Cloth blog.  Art Sparker posted this unfinished drawing and asked readers to finish it.

Here's what I came up with.

It was lots of fun.

Driving home the sun was setting, dropping from the cloud cover to the horizon.  It was raining on me.  Was I in the rainbow?