Post cards...

My wrist is better.  Although I sewed last night and today, so now I hurt ;(
QA magazine is having a contest called "Staycation".  Kind of like the old first day of school speech on what you did this summer- except in fabric.

I spend most at my time with the girls at swim practice and swim meets.  They have plans to be in the Olympics in a few years.  We shall see ;)

So I took a picture of them at practice:

Aren't they cute!
Anyway, I used stiff stuff interfacing as the base.  I couldn't use my scissors much or the rotary cutter so I ripped small strips of blue fabric, layered them on and then cut the shapes for the girls.  I added dyed blue cheese cloth for texture.  I quilted it all and then added white, silver, and clear beads for sparkle.  After all, water sparkles.  This is a terrible photo of the finished postcard.

The real thing looks great.  Since the postcards will not be returned....I made another one for me.

I changed the colors some and made the card a little larger than an actual postcard.  I won't be mailing them so I added a screened back for the 'back'- a shark the mascot for our swim team.

They were a lot of fun to make and I might have to make more.  I hope the post office doesn't shred them before they make it to the magazine!

Happy quilting
Caren

Return of the Quilt Goddess...

The Goddess is back.

That's right it is time for my Guild to make quilts for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative.  Last year we made over 20 quilts.  This year I hope for more. 

In honor of being the Quilt Goddess, my sweetie and I made a screen printed T-shirt. 

Isn't it cute.  The crown is from the Graphics Fairy.  She has great royalty free clip art.  This is the first 2 color stencil we have tried.

Looks really good on fabric too, but I'll show you that later.
-Caren