Christmas Cheer
David and I made it through the Christmas hub-bub with a minimum amount of stress. We celebrated Christmas day with his family and had a wonderful time. Our nephew and niece brought the excitement of the day to life. How much fun to watch them open their gifts on Christmas morning.
Alex is so smart and so interested in everything, even math. Jessica is just a hoot. Strongly opinionated but still sweet and very smart also. We always teased her father about getting an offspring just like him and he did. He is going to have a handful when she gets older.
David and I have been working on our black and white quilts for the Quilts on the Wall exhibit that will be at Long Beach in July. I am hoping to get some stitching done on mine this week. I am blessed to have some time off and hope to get a decent amount of work done on the stitch designs.
I am also trying to get some Thermofax designs done. Not sure if this will find its way into the current quilt but maybe on one of the sister pieces. I actually have 3 pieces of the black and white design. One I actually did with some fusible applique, and two that I had printed by Spoonflower as backup pieces. Currently I have put away the first piece and am working with one of the Spoonflower pieces. There are areas of the original piece I like better, but there is a major design element on the printed piece that I have not been able to do on the original top. I am thinking this may be a “series” just because of the three pieces started. One may be over dyed, so that will be fun also. The only hint I will give on mine is that Shakespeare plays a part. David’s is a more timely, political statement so we have several centuries covered.
David’s work and mine are so different that it is fun to see them both on the design board side by side. When we hosted the Textures December meeting at our house earlier this month it was fun to see the reactions to our pieces.
