We often think of landscapes as including mountains and trees. This weekend I was reminded that beautiful landscapes can be underwater as well when I visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I love the subtle colors in this little scene.
Month: May 2008
Transparency Inspires
I am doing lots of inspiration photos lately, because I have had no time to sew. I thought these windows at the Monterey Bay Aquarium with the trees behind were fabulous.
Eric Carle Quilts
Eric Carle, the author of the Very Hungry Caterpillar, has fabric on sale at his museum. It is between $6-8/ yard and there are some nice tone-on-tone fabrics.
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Denyse Schmidt Returns with more Fabric
TFQ sent me a notice about this post on TrueUp saying that Denyse Schmidt is coming out with another line of fabric. This time it is home dec fabric and it looks like she is repurposing some of of her other designs. You know what? I am fine with that as I don’t think Flea Market Fancy stayed around long enough and wish it would come back.
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Happy 3rd Blogiversary!!!
I have never celebrated a “blogiversary” before. I saw others doing it, so I looked up the day of my first post and here I am.
Three years.
Over 400 posts
Many, many comments.
Fabulous readers.
Thanks for helping me feel successful!
Another New Blog
Margi, one of the Quilt Mavs, joined the blogging party with her blog, Maverick Crafter, which you can find at http://maverickcrafter.blogspot.com/. When she says crafter, she means crafter. She does quiltmaking to knitting and everything in between.
Mosaics Downtown
There is an old building downtown that I visit periodically for an appointment. I finally figured out how to get the photos off of my computer. Here they are, corners and all.
Note the two different corner blocks?
Some Not Like the Others
TFQ put this together a week or so ago. It is small. I think it is has a lot of movement and a lot of possibilities. The movement is created (or at least facilitated) by the variety of colors that are close to each other…or complements.
TFQ’s project has a a lot of possibilities as a jumping off point for a series.
- How would this look with different colored circles on the same background?
- How would this look with these same circles on a different background?
- What if you created circles all one color and put them on a very active background?
The possibilities are endless.
Thanks to TFQ for sharing! Ready? Set! Go! 😉
Inspiration: More Mosaics
These are some titles from a restroom floor. I know it is weird to take photos in the restroom, but some of the old floors are so great that I just can’t help myself. These are in block form, but the block is made up of smaller pieces. If you look at the bottom picture carefully you can find the larger block (towards the right side). I fyou were to use this design to make a quilt block, you might notice that you can’t put the entire block together without partial seaming. The partial seaming makes the block interesting.