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More Gnarled tree postcards, wanted to use up some gold fabrics……so it kinda looks like fields of wheat or some type of crop.

I am working on more black stitched line drawing postcards……here is my first, a Tiger Lily that I feel needs help.  I know my mistakes and am working on ones right now that have been corrected.  All 3 postcards are in black frames and will be delivered to the Morse Cafe tomorrow.

I have been having a hard time sleeping lately, brain is working overtime with all kinds of new ideas, sketchbook on my night table is getting a workout for sure.  Plus, when I am sewing more ideas are coming – so have stop, take notes and then get back to sewing.  I am grateful that I will never have to worry about being blocked…..but sometimes I get overwhelmed with all the ideas and where to stop or start!

Working on sketches for the Flora theme for Textiles Abstractions blog - deadline is August 1st….I have 4 sketches already, so now need to pick one and get busy!  Also, working on some pieces for The Art of the Matter exhibition.

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I am working away on more fabric postcards, some to rotate at Morse Cafe and the rest to take to Regina for The Art of the Matter exhibition.

I have also been sorting through a box of fabric samples my friend, Jody, gave me years ago….came upon the 2 different greens on this postcard.

Some of you may know – I LOVE to slam on the brakes on a road when I see an artistic old tree…..I LOVE old gnarly trees – dead or alive!  So, this is my rendition of a dead tree showing some resistance to the winds it had while living…..

I used a piece of curtain interfacing (from my this box of goodies my neighbour gave me), coloured it with the E59 Walnut Copic Marker, then stitched it down.  I forgot to add fusible web before cutting it free hand, so next one will have fusible.

My sister found this on the street one day.  I LOVE it!!!

We don’t know which tree gave it up during a wind storm 3 years ago, but it has a place of prominence on my front window sill.  The stories it could tell…..

Don’t dismiss looking at old dead or gnarly trees – there is alot of BEAUTY!!!

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The first 3 fabric postcards are going into black frames and will be for sale at Morse Cafe.

I am using up the last bits of all the yarns I used in the Textural Business Cards.  Next batch will have different yarns.

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Open Skies #9                                                          Open Skies #8

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Open Skies #7

Below is a dud……Had an idea to do line drawings on paper, like the ones on the little canvases,  but as I was doing the satin stitch on the edge, I realized its not going to work.  Will have to do a wide zigzag or buttonhole stitch…..And, the change from one fabric markers to another was too much, will have to mix paint for the REAL ONE!  Just wanted to show you – my experiments DO go wrong sometimes!!!  LOL

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