Empty Spools check out 05-03-19

Checking out this morning and have only the critique of our class yet to do.  I packed up my classroom stuff last night and have everything in my sleeping room ready to go into my car.  Guess I'd better have breakfast first.  It has been a good session and a wonderful class with Sue Benner.  Of course, doing a different (small) project every day has been a challenge and has left me with four more unfinished projects.  The students who are speedier than I have some projects pinned for quilting already.  But my goal is not finished, but what I learn in the class, even if I never finish any of the individual projects. 

I'll be with Mary in San Juan Bautista for another five days, until Thursday when I take down the quilts at Back Porch and head home.   To see my little roommate, missed him terribly.  

Here are my four projects.

Day One - Rectilinear with 5-1/2" x 4- 1/2" units

and at the lower left my cut/collage from day 3.  But I missed the cut part!

Day 2 - Curvilinear  This is the background with a few blue trees pinned up and all the blue fabrics that I dug out of my fused scraps and the fabric that I brought with me.   Just auditioning possibilities.  The trees will all be straight although I considered different possibilities, this is the one I find most pleasing.  About 22" long and 18" wide.

Day 4 - Landscape done with strips of fabric.  I used straight strips laid horizontally, but there was a variety of horizontal, vertical, curved, a combination of all of these.  Of course, it isn't finished.  I'll add more sky above and fix the blue hole in the middle.  Also more bushes .  The yellowish strip across the center represents grass growing along the edge of the highway and is fringed on top..   About 22"wide and may end up 26" long.  

  Now 7:45am and I gotta get going.  

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