to rise, leap, move, or act suddenly and swiftly, as by a sudden dart or thrust forward or outward, or being suddenly released from a coiled or constrained position: spring is in the air
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| Similar to the last sample, I added a few circles and different colors. |
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| If you look close you can see the variegated thread. |
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| This color blocked thread is very obvious. |
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| Loved the process of stitching this one. |
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| After I draw my design on the paper, I pin it to the fabric sandwich. |
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| After stitching, before I removed the paper. |
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| The finished motif, it's perfect! |
Sounds crazy but I love my new ruler. I prefer Omnigrid
Rulers because they offer accuracy, performance and quality. But believe it or not the do wear out.I use my 6 x 12" so much that the paint rubs off eventually.
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| Found on the ground for 1 Euro |
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| At one of the 'fancy' shops for a lot more than 1 Euro! |
Quilt Art Symposium promises to shine a light on the future of Quilt Art with three leading speakers, a luncheon, an artist-led tour of the CQA exhibit, and an opening party.
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Art Quilt Experts
Each speaker answers the question: What have you learned and what do you think is next in Quilt Art?
9:30am Dr. Sandra Sider10:30am Cathy Izzo Noon Luncheon 1pm Kris Sazaki |
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Opening Day
A major exhibit of CQA artists’ work opens on the day of Quilt Art Symposium.
2pm CQA artists discuss their work4pm Opening Partee |
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Celebrate 30 with CQA |
It must be almost spring, it's time for Expo! Every February The Sewing & Stitchery Expo opens! This year it is February 25 - 28, 2016. It is the Largest Sewing Expo in the Nation! I love it because there is something for everyone and sew much more! Attend quality educational SEMINARS taught by national teachers, be inspired at the STYLE SHOWS showcasing the latest fashions, and SHOP from more than 400 booths to find everything for sewing: fabrics, notions, specialty yarns, threads, patterns, books, machine embroidery designs, home décor items and the list goes on!
I don't know about you, when the time comes to go home, I just want to be there! This trip while short was fun, and maybe just a bit too warm. (91 when we returned the car).
There is something quite addictive about the beach. Maybe because I was raised near it, maybe it's the endless water. Who knows. But a drive along the coast in Malibu is sooo beautiful.
The Spanish missions in California comprise a series of 21 religious
outposts; established by Catholic priests of the Franciscan order
between 1769 and 1833, to expand Christianity among the Native
Americans. The missions were part of a major effort by the Spanish
Empire to extend colonization into the most northern and western parts
of Spain's North American claims. The missionaries introduced European
fruits, vegetables, cattle, horses, ranching and technology into the
region that became the New Spain province of Alta California.
Chinatown is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles, that became a commercial center for Chinese and other Asian businesses in Central Los Angeles in 1938. The area includes restaurants, shops and art galleries but also has a residential neighborhood with a low-income, aging population of about 10,000 residents.
The Getty Villa near Malibu, is an educational center and museum dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. The collection has 44,000 Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities dating from 6,500 BC to 400 AD. I'll admit that art from this period is not my favorite, I'm interested in the Villa its self.
The Getty Villa is modeled after a first-century Roman country house, the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, Italy.
This bed is called a lit à la Turque (Turkish
bed). This title does not refer to any specific Turkish design source
but reflects the 18th-century preoccupation with anything exotic and
unusual from foreign countries. This unusually large bed was made for a
bedroom in a grand private residence. It would have been placed sideways
against a wall, with a draped baldachin (ornamental canopy) now
missing. The wheels underneath the bed allowed servants to pull out the
body of the bed easily, leaving the tall back attached to the wall while
they made the bed. It was probably set into an alcove or niche in a
bedroom wall.
The lit à la Polonaise (Polish bed) would have also belonged in
a deep niche in the bedroom of the main apartment of a palace or
mansion. In the 1700s, visitors were frequently received in the bedroom,
while the host or hostess was still in bed or at his or her dressing
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| Regency paneled room 1670 -1720 |
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| Silk wall Paper |
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| Jeanne (Spring), Edouard Manet |
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| Still life with Fruit and Flowers, Claude Monet |
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| La Promenade, Pierre-Auguste Renoir |
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| The great architecture, is accented by the plantings. |
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| Trees that may fool the eye. |
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| The stunning view where you can see all the way to the ocean. |
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| A few appliqued hearts given to me by a friend. |
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| And some 9 patches |
2016 is the year of the Monkey.
It is the Fire Hóu (火 猴) year of the
Fire Monkey. Fire is the third of the ten celestial stems and 猴 Hóu (Monkey) is
the ninth of the twelve terrestrial branches. Unlike western calendars, the Chinese calendar has names
that are repeated every 60 years. 
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