Princess Bubbles Creates

Our guild sinchie challenge is coming to completion.  For May our challenge was to depict happiness.  My piece is a truly mixed media kaleidoscope.  The whole group of sinchies will be on display in St. Jacobs for the Quilt and Fibre show.  It will be a really interesting display. I am linking to http://www.esthersquiltblog.com/ https://www.quiltfabrication.com/ http://needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.com/

I worked keenly to get this small quilt finished this week.  I had been thinking I would put it in the quilt show at the School House in St. Jacobs later this month.  I have rethought that because it is based on a workshop, Stupendous Stitching, from Carol Ann Waugh that I took online.  Although I think I did some interesting things with this piece it isn't original.  I used my own hand dyed silk and that was a complete pleasure.  I also added beading and silk ribbon embroidery.  It is intentionally not truly square. I think I pushed the boundaries of the workshop to make this uniquely mine but still is a derivative of Carol Ann's work. I am linking to https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/

The base is a piece of sheer blue fabric.  I adhered bits, pieces and scraps to it with a watered down glue mixture.  I stitched on the sea horse charm.  This piece is six inches square.  I am linking to http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/

An interactive page from a different journal.  Who doesn't love a pop-up?

I already have a very good start on my bead journal for May.  I hand dyed the doily and love the way it turned out.  This mandala series is giving me a lot of pleasure.  There seems to be no limit on them.  This morning I saw a quilt that was made with a doily-like tablecloth.  So much larger than I have been working.  That was inspiring and I will consider doing a larger piece in this way. I am linking to http://www.esthersquiltblog.com/ https://www.quiltfabrication.com/

Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; blueprints of your ultimate achievements.  Napolean Hill I am linking to http://image-in-ing.blogspot.com https://mersad-photography.blogspot.com

I had a number of positive comments about the large pink beads I used so I decided to keep them.  I did add some small purple beads which I think makes it more interesting.  There isn't a ton of stitching on this piece so I may return to it and add more at some point.  For now, it is done. I am linking to https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/