Neighbors

I’ve been working on another fabric house, which actually turned into two houses. I call it “Neighbors.”

I used a rather eclectic combination of fabrics because I tend to pick bold colorful patterns when I look at fabric. It was an interesting process trying to figure out how to work them together.

I especially love the fabric I used on the roof of the green house—it reminds me of Gustav Klimt, and so I had to find a place to use it.

There is something about pattern that is so rich—I don’t even know how to describe it—it’s like I want to eat it, in some metaphorical way. I know you fabric lovers know what I mean. It makes my brain happy. How lucky we are to be able to fall in love with something as simple as fabric! The small things.

Crafting

Today’s craft show was a lot of fun—here’s a peek at my table:

I am absolutely horrible at smiling in pictures, so sadly, the pictures with me in the booth just didn’t turn out too great. But the show was fun—I sold some art and even more exciting, I sewed.

Yes, you read that right—sewed. Sitting at a craft show is absolutely the best time to get some stitching in, although it is admittedly hard to draw.

I haven’t done any sewing in quite a while, in fact, you probably haven’t really seen any sewing if you’ve been following this blog. But, I love fabric, have always loved fabric, and have often collected too much fabric for the little sewing I do.

Last Tuesday, I felt an itch to do something with my hands, something a little different—so I launched into a kind of sewn fabric drawing. With my time at the craft show today, I was able to finish this project, and here it is:

I am not a tremendously precise person, so to be honest, I can’t and probably never will be able to sew a straight line (with a machine or without), but I’m happy with how this turned out. You can’t see it very well here, but the white fabric has a lovely leaf pattern on it.

I’m not sure what I’ll do with this piece—frame it and hang it as 2-d artwork? Sew it into a bag? Put it in a drawer for some later purpose? Anyone got any ideas?

It was pretty fun, and it gives me a good excuse to go buy more fat quarters, so I think I might make another. We’ll just have to see what tomorrow brings! Happy crafting!