Arbol de Vida makes the cut!

Honestly, I had not been worried about this quilt being accepted until I spoke with several award winning quilters I know who got rejections. I was so surprised hearing that, I started to get a little nervous. I guess it's always good being humbled, puts things in perspective. I was very relieved when I saw the big envelope from IQA in the mail box. Now let's hope the judges like it.

Back to art and quilt related content

This is a 6 inch quilted panel with satin stitched edge. It is painted with textile paints on white cotton fabric and then machine quilted. I made this for a holiday related project. I haven't decided if I am going to use it or not yet.








I just bought these the other day and am looking forward to experimenting and seeing what kind of things I can do with them.

Boy, there is nothing better than a new box of crayons is there.

Ty is featured on the CRAFTzine blog today!

How cool is this?!!!

WOW!!!!!!

Was I surprised to find out about this! There I am at the top of the page!

Virginia left a comment on my blog alerting me to the fact that I was listed on bloggers main page. Boy does that explain a lot. I have had sooooo many more comments than usual. I think my site meter is blasting off the charts. I thank you all for the kind words. And Thanks to the Blogger team for finding my blog to be noteworthy and interesting! ^_^

Ty's interview on NPR

Ty was interviewed by an NPR reporter for a segment on the Eight Forty Eight Show here in Chicago about the Columbia College exhibit; It's all in the fold. The origami segment was bumped in the schedule 2 times and finally aired today. You can see a photo of Ty holding a tiny crane on the NPR website next to the 848 show description for today.

You can listen to the interview here.

It's all in the details

As deadlines loom closer and I get ready to go out of town next week, I realize I need to finish up a couple things before I go. Like painting the seeds on the pomegranates, I don't know how I missed doing this when I was painting the quilt, but about a week after I finished I realized I had forgotten to paint them.

I think the detail of adding the seeds gives the pomegranate that extra little sparkle.



I finally figured out how to take good close up photos with my camera, I had not realized you can set it to manual macro. The pictures were always blurry with the auto macro setting. So Here are a few detail shots of moths on Arbol de Vida. These are about one and a half inches across in size.

Ty is featured in local paper

Pioneer News hit the newstands today in Chicago, and I have been told Ty has a full page photo on the cover of the newspaper. I have yet to see it myself, but you can see the article online here.