READY, SET, GO!!

Helga and I are at the starting line.....

And we're OFF...

I managed to get the first half quilted this morning ...
tomorrow I will be doing the 2nd half...

Then I walked my first 10 min on "Trevor" (our treadmill) out of 30...
I plan to hop on Trev and do another two 10 min segments...

My cold seems to be getting better at last...

And, here is my first paltry effort at drawing les femmes...

Part of my art goals--to draw faces and then learn to color them in realistically...
I've added my own had altered papers and stamps...

AND.. Farm Girl ladies (Dawnie, Barbara, Jackie, Collette aka Rheema):

 .....I acutally CUT OUT  those 23 pieces for my Cow block...can you guess where I'm going with these blocks???

Whether or not they will go together remains to be seen...I've labeled them and put them to one side until Helga feels she is ready to sew a "scant" 1/4" seam--that girl is SO Stubborn--she just doesn't like to sew 1/4" seams or straight ones either!! LOL ;)))

The rains rained down last night and all of our snow is gone--which doesn't make me sad at all.....it is 53 degrees right now...
hugs 
Julierose, La Blageuse (quilt-euse)

FUN

What do all these quilts that I've made have in common??

They all have an underlying pattern for sure....but...

I have definitely strayed from that pattern and done

my own thing in each case. 

My New Year's word for quilting is 

FUN

I mean, you can tell just by looking at these that I truly enjoyed making them.

the first one dates from mid-90's (shhh --I used

a yellow marker to make those dots in the rose centers)

the beach houses were inspired by someone's blog post (sorry, I don't recall who it was) but I liked making those free form parts and then putting the blocks together free form...and all done by hand.

the third wall hanging

 (Oh and that's the other thing--they are all smallish)

was from an online class with Jude Hill, and

again, I strayed--she like the top but not the bottom) but--

and this is the important thing--I LIKE the whole thing.

And my Crazy Quilt pictured lastly, 

was a whole Summer of sitting on my back deck and 

hand sewing a bit each day, adding all kinds of 

scrapbook- like ephemera:

laces, appliques, beads, ribbons--

what great fun to riffle through my "fancies" stash 

and audition placements and think up ideas...

SO,

this being said :

I was totally enabled by two of my blog friends

(who shall herein remain anonymous,

 but you know who you are gals ;))) )....

To join into a their year- long "Piece-a-Thon"--I even got the

book-- Farm Girl and.....when I leafed through it....

SHAZAMMMM !!!!;0000

23 pieces in one block????

Are you really serious--

Well, not my style at all, gals...

Instead--

I will be taking the "ideas" in that book and 

drafting my own versions---

that won't give me  nightmares--

there are waaaay too many

1/4" seam crossings for this ole gal....

makes me very nervous just looking at the directions..

Heavens, oh my gosh...I am sure you all will

be flying through all those blocks with ease...

JUST, SAYIN' 

that ;))))

My pieces will look VERY different--and as I am learning to draw

 in my art pursuit this year --AND

I thought I'd take a page from Mary Lou Weidman

 (if you've never read her books --do, and you are in for a huge treat) 

AND

first of all DRAW my own version of a 

Cow, 

a bossie, a Moo-person, 

A Moooolin Rouge

apparition...

(Udderly groaning here)

;00000

FOR FUN...

Stay tuned 

I will show my stabs at drawing my own cow..

but maybe you won't want to see that..just

ummmmmm

avert your eyes, and mooove on...

Hugs, Julierose, La blageuse (bovine-euse)

(How do I stop this centered text???aaargh)

P.S.  I go and get my final check up and get my

glasses today--YAY only a few more days of drops .