Photo Class Shoot

I just finished a 6 week Beginner's Photo class at the local community college. I'm really excited about some of the pictures from the class. Below are several flower photos I took.

This one was taken of some flowers in a neighbors yard.

Red Tulips



We met last Saturday at 5:30am at the Monona Terrace to take photos. The next three are photos from that morning.


A photo my teacher, Daryl Sherman, took of me while I was photographing the flowers

This is the one I was taking when Daryl took the photo of me

Red tulip from above

Also taken that same day.

White Tulips

It was actually a lot of fun, even though it was a 5:30am. It makes me want to get up that early again and go out. I'll add more photos later!

Pea Pod Playtime

I just finished a new quilt to be part of a MCFA show called Improvisations. The show will hang in the new Overture Center in Madison, WI. It was also selected to be on the cover of the show's postcard. My piece started out as a sketch in a very boring staff meeting with two white, male, "higher-ups" talking. They started out saying they came to our staff meeting because they wanted to hear our opinions and then proceeded to talk for 45 minutes! Unfortunately, I am not exaggerating. Of course, the good part is that I made this neat sketch and turned it into a quilt. Therefore, it was quite a productive meeting for me!


Initial sketch of Pea Pod Playtime

Lately, I have really enjoyed painting on cavas and using that as quilts, of course inspired by my class at Arrowmont. So the painting below is the background - acrylic on canvas.


Painted background of Pea Pod Playtime

Finally, I stitched with purple, blue, and green threads - three shades of each color to get the whisical pea pod shapes.



Pea Pod Playtime

My only complaint of the whole quilt is the dang binding. I hate bindings! I wanted the binding to turn over to the back so you didn't see it. It works OK, but the corners aren't sharp and I think it looked better before it was bound. I need to figure out a better way to do this. Any ideas?

The show will be hanging this summer. I think July to September at the Overture Center. Stop by if you're in Madison!