Pat Findlay's Studio Time

 I let it be known that I was doing a "deep purge", and had some visitors this week.  The first two were close friends.  One took everything left in the bead cupboard--everything!  She also took  the "not-so-nice" quilt that had been consigned to the donation pile in my last post.  The other friend bought my piece "Juncos" off the wall.  I was so very pleased, as I had been actually worrying about what was to become of it.  It has always been one of my favourite pieces, and, I believe, one of my best. The other visitor was a lady I connected to during a casual Zoom meeting of Slow Stitchery followers, all associated with  the group Textile and Fibre Artists of Manitoba (TFAM) that I have mentioned in the past. This lady and I have connected, being about the same age and having similar interests.  She is part of a small informal group that are starting to explore embroidery.  She took away 8 standard craft storage boxes full of ...

The less-than-nice quilt discussed in the last post came out of the wash in much better shape than it went in. It has now been labelled and folded up for the "donation" pile.  Dealing with it has lead me to re-consider the other two quilts I've been cherishing.  While I love them, they aren't a size for either of our beds, they are taking up storage space, and neither has any redeeming factor other than the time I spent making it.  I believe these other two will end up being donated as well. In sorting through my hand-dyed fabric over the past couple of days, I came across several pieces large enough for a donation-size quilt.  Two in particular would make very pretty quilts, and I plan to do just that.  I even have an idea of how I could make them slightly pieced and not needing to be treated as a whole cloth quilt. The cutting I've been doing over the past couple of weeks is just about done--for now--so maybe it's time to be looking at another batch of donat...