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So my creations are always works in progress and flexible. Every time this happens to me I remember a video that I have seen of an elderly Japanese gentlemen who lives on Okinawa and creates mind games. He discussed Altzheimer and said that if we keep our grey cells active and challenged we won't get Altzheimer.

I woke up with this. I saw the picture and went to the box of crayons and took these out. As an artist or actually I think any kind of creator, you just know when you have got it right. First of all it feels right and you can "see" it.

I have been having what I call Artist's block. You know like Writer's block. I see something in my mind's eye and I just don't manage to translate it into fabric.

I have been working on more wave technique tutorials. I have 2 ready and there are 2 more in my arsenal. The next will be called The Wave Circle of Eternity. My first version will be all oranges. I was sorting fabrics this morning and the sun was shining outside and birds were chirping, quite loudly in fact. I found some orange summer fabrics

I had collected quite a large amount of t shirt strips from all the shirts that I had resized and have been itching to create with them.

I always work on a number of projects at the same time. Mystyle of productivity. They are usually sized according to the remnants of the largest project that I am working on. This time I did something different. I am working on 3 separate large projects at the same time. Every single table in my studio is covered with a different project. I can do it this week as the childrens classes are on vacation, so the studio is only mine for the week.

Its qulted as I envisioned it and I am very happy with the way it turned out with the teal quilting

First I needed to work on the technique and create a version where it was easy to sew any size waves - large or small even a very large art quilt or even a bed quilt with the technique. I chose colors for that, laid them out in the order I wanted to sew them

The prompt for the 5th day is why do I quilt? There are so many way that I can answer that. I have a life long love of fabrics from the first time at age 5 that I walked into my grandfather's sewing room and saw the black treadle machine and watched him sew and saw the pile of fabrics sitting on the chair next to him. My first trip also at age 5 to the Indian market in Pretoria, the sari fabrics, the beads, the colors all spoke to me.

I never purchase fabric. Always upcycled or gifted from friends. Collected over the years lots of it kept for crazy quilting. The color family was planned as I saw how my collection grew. The year I was pregnant I carried a basket around with me with stitched squares that I embroidered. Then joined the squares into strips, embroidered more then sewed the quilt top.

When working on projects I keep all of the remnants. I store them according to size so that they are easily accessible for my various techniques and then I can use even the tinieset of pieces when I create.

I love when people share with us the products they create incorporating our techniques. Joanne Self participated in the Road To California Quilt Show January 2023 and created Oregon Lighthouses quilt and used amongst other techniques her modified version of our wave landscape patchwork technique for the ocean background in the quilt.

he children call them fluffy quilts. They name them very aptly. Taught a rag quilt class this week. I always create a sample while showing the students how it should be done. I worked on my quilts. I have 2 more for the guest room.

I have been playing around with this idea for a while. To create wearables using my landscape patchwork techniques. My process takes a while. I think about it, experiment in my head, look at fabrics and then begin to play.

Looking for new ways to upcycle fabric scraps and create new interesting fabrics. Today I played with pleats and will show you what I did with the fabrics that were on my table today

Last week a student chose all of the floral fabrics that she could find in the scrap box to create a floral garden wave landscape patchwork piece.

What I enjoy doing the most is working with scraps. So I tell myself do what you do well! Working with fabric scraps. Giving them a new life. Creating techniques that simplify achieving appealing results.

This week's experiment is a wave landscape patchwork piece with stretchy fabric. I am not normally working with stretch fabrics when creating wave landscape patchwork quilts, but the pieces are so beautiful so I will try. I have the perfect purple thread in my stash.

t was interesting to work on it. It is not exactly a flow of a the 4 seasons piece. What I see is leaves and flowers through the 4 seasons.

I always create challenges for myself. When I completed the 4 seasons series I had many scrap pieces left over. I wanted to make one piece with merging all the 4 seasons flowing through each other using only the scraps left over. The palette was limited so the first thing I did was to sort the fabrics into the seasons.