Dream Time Graffiti

dream time graffiti #1

by

Lynn Krawcyzk

This is the newest fiber art hanging in my home.  I love it!  Lynn Krawcyzk is the curator of the Breaking Traditions Art Quilt exhibits which I have participated in for a few years.  She is an amazing artist working in fiber and also has a photography series,  Where I Stand, now entering its third year.  If you haven't browsed her website or blog, check it out!  If you like this piece, I have good news - there are two more available for purchase (unless someone else has snapped them up before you!).  Click here for the direct link to her blog post showing the dream time graffiti series.

Big Foot, framed!

Here it is ... my quilt to trade in Another Little Quilt Swap #4  hosted by a friend in the United Kingdom, Kate North.

My original quilt to trade turned out to be too small as per the guidelines posted for this fun swap, so I got creative and built a frame around it ... using slices from another project.  May I present to you ....

Big Foot - Framed

The center of this quilt is "Big Foot, the Foot" from my "Big Foot" journal quilt series which began in April 2007.  Click here to read more about those beginnings.  The frame is made from pieces of "Sitting on Top of the World", whose story is here.  Both quilts are favorites of mine, but I am excited to be swapping this quilt, "Big Foot - Framed", for a new treasure!   This quilt measures just under 15" x 20".

a close-up shot

This detail photo shows the thread stitching and creative fabric piecing and overlays to create the tree and the background landscape.  The flower stalk is a three-dimensional embellishment of flower petals and leaves attached with Sulky threads.

BJP 2008

My webpage is up in the 2008 BJP Member's Gallery featuring the first eight months of my face/profile BJP series.  It is great to see them all together & quite a motivation to finish the final four!

Take a peek by clicking here or browse the entire Bead Journal Website more slowly by clicking here, which is the entry way.

Kate's ATC

I won!  I won!  I won one of Kate North's lovely ATCs!

Butterfly Pink

She offered five in a drawing open to all who signed up for her ALQS #4 (Another Little Quilt Swap, round 4).  Click here to learn more about it, though basically you sign up, make a quilt, send her digital images of it -- then select your top 10 favorites of the others posted -- and she arranges the swaps from everyone's top 10 wish lists.  For the specific guidelines, click here.

Thank you Kate for a lovely ATC and for hosting this swap again.  It is my first time to join ALQS and I look forward to this fun swap .... must go finish my quilt .... so I can possibly finish two to swap.

BJP 2007

Hurray!

Now announcing ... not only have I completed my first series of the Bead Journal Project but they all appear on my page of the BJP website.

Can you believe that it was just last June, well, June of 2007, when I began my first beaded design?  I selected the 4"x6" classic postcard to use for this series of Beaded pieces.   In three short years I have completed this self-challenge.  My oh my, how the time has flown by!

You can see all twelve pieces in the 2007 BJP Member's Gallery, or by clicking here.

Meanwhile, I have four more pieces to finish in my 2008 series of BJPs .....

Felted Bowl

The Sixth annual Houston-area Empty Bowls event is tomorrow. 

This year, I crocheted a bowl and then felted it.

Here is a bottom-side up view.

I made two -- and kept meaning to add embellishments of some sort, but ran out of time this year.  Be sure to come tomorrow and support the Houston Food Bank by enjoying a bowl of soup and selecting a bowl to keep as your special momento.

Empty Bowls 2010

This Saturday, May 22, is the Sixth Annual Empty Bowls event at the Houston Contemporary Craft Center.   As in the past two years, I have made a fiber-art bowl to donate to this worthy cause and I've encouraged my fellow art quilters and fiber artists to do the same.

If you have a bowl to donate -- they started collecting them last week and will be glad to accept yours too!  Just drop it by HCCC before Saturday or click here for more details.

If you are in or near Houston, be sure to stop to browse the wonderful selection of bowls and stay for a tasty lunch consisting of a bowl of soup (naturally!) and your choice of one lovely bowl to keep.  Minimum donation is $25.00, although they have a select group of upgraded bowls (these are fabulous!).  Come in the afternoon and look for me or my boys as we will be there volunteering.