Red Rocks

Red Rocks

O.K. - I've bloody well tried getting this next photo to load for days - let's hope by some miracle, it will pop up today. This is a photo taken in at the Colorado National Monument of my silver fox hubbie, Donald and I. I do plan on making a Colorado landscape, possibly for the APWQ Invitational exhibit, Spirit of the West.....
Had a lovely day with my quilting chums today at our "Thursday Group" get together. I felt like poop all day but they managed to cheer me up - my blankety blank thyroid is obviously low ONCE AGAIN and this time, the muscle pain in my thighs is beyond anything I've ever experienced. I got a blood draw yesterday, so hopefully, when the results are in, we can up my dose once again......
I am busy making kits for teaching at International Quilt Festival in Houston for my Quick Little Landscape class. Talk to you all soon. xxoo Joyce

Fantasy Forest

Here's a recent quilt I've completed. I used a lovely hand-dyed Just Imagination fabric for the background sky and another amazing hand-painted Mickey Lawler fabric for the foreground. I didn't have enough of the redwood tree fabric for all the trees, so I created others with inks and wax pastels. It seems like it took forever to cut out all of the foliage both for the trees and the ferns, and even longer to stitch them using free-motion machine embroidery. This photo isn't the best but I'll take another shot soon and replace it.....Today I am "inking" areas on a whole-cloth quilt I hand quilted - it's looking pretty darn good! I love trying new stuff.....xxoo Joyce

Colorado Rocky Mt. High

Here is a photo of a gorgeous lake on top of a Mesa in Colorado. I am ready to go back and go camping and fishing. Oh, that's right......I haven't camped in a long long time....maybe there is a good B&B close by????? I would like to pull a couple of fish out of the lakes, though.....

I'm back again.......I just finished uploading 200 + photos from my digital camera to my computer and thought I'd share a couple from my recent trip to Colorado! It's already turning kinda cool in Seattle which is strange, since we only had one week of summer (and dag nab it, we were gone.....) Here I am on the set of the Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims - dam, my quilts look good in the back.....

The Quilt Show

I must say, I've been rather hesitant to join the millions of bloggers, mainly because of my time constraints, but I am bound and determined to integrate blogging into my daily activities and chat with more of my friends, both personal and professional!
My latest adventure was to the tape an episode of the Quilt Show in Boulder Colorado with Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson. I must say, it was a hoot and I enjoyed it very much. My "episode" will be shown next year sometime and focuses on my Quick Little Landscape techniques (my new book will be out this December with the same title)......
I hope some of you will follow my blog and give me suggestions of other blogs to follow. I like positive stuff, funny stuff, educational stuff and so on. I hope to post a photo from our trip to the Quilt Show and to the beautiful state of Colorado - we did a "road trip" and visited relatives and went for a very nice day of wine tasting in Palisade, Colorado. There are some mighty fine wines in Palisade - I know, I tasted quite a few and felt it the next day......talk to you later. xxoo Joyce