What I have been working on lately

Well I finally finished this rug last week, got it bound and whipped the edge with yarn. The idea came from one of my paintings.

Penobscot Bay  this rug is long and narrow so not clear what happened to the photo

Now for some cloth work, I was feeling badly that I had not done much over the month the class ran and went through the piles of fabric to see what had been accomplished. I was pleasantly surprised that I began as many as I found. None finished but ideas are there and ready when time allows.

Blues

For this cloth I already know what comes next and will be a series of blues in old linens and some other cloth from the dye jars.

This one I call House/Home

Lightness

Boro

The Moon's Story which I continue to work on

This one is resting

This cloth honors my old friend Mr Blue

He was at the pond the other day and I was as close as I had ever been to him sketching and taking his photo

Not clear if this one is done, not quite I'm thinking but like the dark blue  is resting for a bit. Processing. Now I will try out some of the new lessons that just happened, words, split stitches and a thumb smash. Who can tell where the cloth will wander, I feel the ocean calling, maybe dense peasoup fogg. That images keeps asserting itself in my mind's eye. Til Then back to the rugs.

Still Cold In Maine

My double bloodroot is in bloom will take a shot tomorrow before the rain comes. They remind me of small nomes popping out of the ground. I'll hope the deer don't know they are in blossom.

Rug hooking is moving along I began a wall hanging of 2 islands, an all time favorite theme.

Wool on Linen 17" x 18"

Not yet steamed

Islands Outside of Time

For painting I had 6 small canvasses so painted a quilt of the view to Omey Island

 

They actually fit together but I hung them individually to see if they could stand alone also.

And to stretch my brain, all the reporting on older brains has me thinking about the "myelin" that Robert Genn's newsletter referred to, so have signed myself up for a Portrait class at the Farnsworth with Martha Miller. This begins next month giving me some lead time as I have not drawn the head nor body in a long while. So stay tuned. To psych myself I have dug out the following art books, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Bonnard and my fav, Bloomsbury. They were always drawing each other as well as their own portraits