KoKo goes to the groomer 11-04-17

KoKo has the softest fur/hair I've ever felt on a dog, it is more like kitten fur.  And especially when he comes home from the groomer.  No shaggy feet or ears, just smooth fur. 

 

I admit I was holding his tail trying to get him to stand up for a side shot.  The fur on his back is gradually turning grey - from the tail forward!  Don't know why this is. 

He is very loving and obedient (most of the time) but I still haven't gotten any training to keep him from snarling, lunging, and barking when someone walks down the street while we are walking.  Even if they are on the other side of the street. 

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Friday Feet 11-03-17

 

 

I imagine you may have seen this online.  What a concept - everyone going out naked.  How horrible most of us would look.  You may  disagree, but ageing bodies are not appealing and many ageing bodies all at once would be more than most of us could take.  So, I vote against "Naked Fridays" or any other day of the week. 

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Wordless Wednesday on a Thursday 11-02-17

 

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Monday Browsing on Tuesday!! 10-31-17

https://www.equilter.com/news/videos?fn=nl_20171007194516  Tutorials, quilt shows/festivals, etc.

http://quiltalliance.org/alliance-quilt-contests/meet-the-winners-of-the-voices-quilt-contest/  2017 winners.

http://www.benefitbidding.com/auctions/listings/index.cfm?auction=318&resetcategory=1   Alliance for American Quilts 2017 auction.

The Alliance for American Quilts online auction is split into 2 groups.
Group 1 starts November 13 at 9:00 AM EST ends November 20 at 9:00 PM EST
Group 2 starts November 27 at 9:00 AM EST ends December 4   at 9:00 PM EST

http://misst.canalblog.com/archives/2015/04/28/31947393.html   Lovely reverse applique and Japanese Bero quilts.

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Re-visiting a quilt by Karen Rips 10-29-17

I became friends with Karen Rips soon after the International 12X12 group started.  It has been a pleasure to watch her style develop and I am a great admirer of her very elegant, subtle quilts.  The only trouble with this quilt is my inability to photograph it to show it at its best. The light color is a soft sage green, surrounding the dark sage green center rectangle  and the outer edges are a deep purple, as is the faced back.  Karen has used her unique technique of sewing the front, batting, backing together with channel quilting and then doing a sort of felting process using hot water to make everything shrink up. 

 

"Gravida"  Karen Rips - Thousand Oaks, CA  2013  35"W x 46"LHand-dyed cotton, wool batting, hand embroidery, paint, silk, machine pieced and quilted.

[Gravida (noun)  a woman's status regarding pregnancy; usually followed by a roman numeral designating the number of times the woman has been pregnant.]

There are many areas of embroidery stitches. The black lines are paint.

Karen has also used some strips of frayed silk fabric to embellish the quilt.

More of the silk strips and black paint along with hand embroidery.

Here are multiple rows of straight hand stitches done in variegated purple/pink thread.

 

If you enlarge this image you might see the bearding of the wool batting.  I like it as it gives even more texture to this very textured quilt which is very soft and pliable - more like a hand quilted work.

 

I faded out this image so you can see the facing with the curved inner edges.

This is the third of the pieces of silk couched down with embroidery stitches.

An  adequate label which gives two ways of contacting the artist, her name, the date and even the size of the quilt in the lower right hand corner. 

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