Art Quilt workbook lesson and a cute decorating idea.

I saw this cute decorating idea in a magazine:

I had this funky wall space I wasn't sure what to do with. All I did was glue 2 12 x 12 sheets of scrapbook paper to 2- 12 x 12 canvases. Then I painted the edges to match and hung them.

It took me less than an hour!

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I have started making time to start art quilting. This is what I want to do more than anything...I am doing the workbook and this is my 9 x 12 for my 2nd lesson.

I think it's OK. Not spectacular, not terrible. Just OK. But I had a lot of fun making it, and found myself - if you can believe this - limited by commercial fabric choices. I am thinking of maybe dying some fabrics. This is something I never imagined I would even be remotely interested in doing!

I free-motion quilted the entire thing and I save my selvedge edges - for some reason I really love them. LOL - so I used one for the flower stem. It represents for me the incredible intelligence of nature. The flower knows when to bloom. The tree knows when to blossom.

It amazes me.

And yes, I would love to live under a polka-dot sky with ginger blossom clouds.

mmmmmmmmmm. Heaven.

Comments

[erika]

"I would love to live under a polka-dot sky with ginger blossom clouds."..heehee...
you crack me up.
I would like to live there too....
love the 12x12s...very easy but fabulous effect..I may be trying that.
art quilting....i have no idea what it is....but i'm loving it.
i would just like to be able to sew....you are like magic to me! ;) xe

[Jessica]

Oh, I LOVE that scrapbook page idea for the wall-hangings. I have many similar spaces and just may have to do that! Cool. And your art quilt... awesome! I've been putting that part off... I don't need another hobby right now... although I would love one... :)