a baby step, I glued em up.

Cadence

Once upon a time I rode a mountain bike out of a truly craptacular period of my life.

I learned alot when I rode that bike, one of the lessons imparted (never quite mastered) was cadence. Maintaining a rhythm will help you cover more ground and tougher terrain than you would ever think you are capable of conquering.

Before vacation I had a nice cadence going. Daily posts, and daily acts of creativity. It was a pretty liberal definition of creativity but hey it was serving the need of the moment.

Vacation interrupted that steady beat and I've been having a bit of a wrestling match getting back into it. That of course led to a touch of angst about losing it and what is wrong with me and so on. Pointless but distracting.

So tonight I put a little time into a paper quilt idea, frankly its not really gelling as I would like but the act is what is important not the result. I will try again tomorrow and see if I can't get my beat back.

Pod

I have little of substance to show for myself tonight so I bring you this fellow made by my friend Esther Golden. Lar thinks it looks like a tooth with those little feet but I think its a Martian pod for some sort of sporelike plant...

regardless it has followed me home and taken up residence in the studio.

Autum Blends

Well here they are, a slew of Autum color blends. All of these pieces will be sent off to Arizona tomorrow along with a few other pieces of shibori. One of my mom's friends Karen Rogers of Quilted Inspirations is going to have a booth at a quilt show and offered to put some of my fabrics out (extremly nice of her- thanks Karen!)
So now I'm off to pack the rest of the fabrics to send her...

Still sniffy but I did manage to dye a group of fall colored panels...results tomorrow for now its off to bed.

Horizon

Horizon
Originally uploaded by alsokaizen

I think I have caught Lar's cold, my throat is suspiciously sore and I feel uninterested in doing anything tonight that uses actual brain waves (well OK thats not totally unusual for a Friday night)
'Nough said here is another photo from NM, soon after it was taken my battery died and (as I had forgotten the charger) I had to leave off taking photos

Color Blend Result

Here it is, the container worked out pretty well. I'm considering trying a longer thinner container to see if I can't get more colors on one piece of fabric. One possibility would be one of those plastic dividers you use in silverware drawers....

Yeah I know orange again but this time it was at moms request. I am having a tough time telling if the colors in my photo are accurate because my computer monitor is dying a slow death and keeps tinting everything hot pink,

Its incredibly disturbing.