Working with Rusty Pups Underfoot

We have started walks

And they can join me in the studio for short periods now

so I have been able to play on the design wall.

This is often how a piece starts

 Pinning bits and pieces up on the wall.

When I visited Judy on her beautiful island

we decided my mottled grey fabric

really needed the company of Judy's dyed grey and brown velvets.

Thank you Judy

Sending you grateful hugs over the airways.

Now that I am home

I think I also have to include that strip of black discharge linen.

Jut playing around adding and subtracting.

I am where I love to be

It is calming to be in the studio 

even with pups fighting over a scrap of cotton

at my feet.

 We have started walks up the mountain.

They have learned the beep of the tailgate opening

means a ride to fun times!

They are not big enough to jump in yet

but they try and help!

We also took them to meet beautiful Willa next door.

Oh, boy did they love her

Willa was so patient

Two excited puppies at once can be a bit much!

She Loved The Woods

She Loved the Woods

finished and nearly ready to mail to Ontario

for a Connections Fibre Artists show

Re:Fashion

Each one of us chose one of the fashion items

in the Wellington County Museum collection.

I chose this dress

I thought it might have been dyed with black walnut or Alder

perhaps both

I imagined the woman who wore this

might love the woods

as I do.

Connections Fibre Artists

is a group brimming with talent.

Do go and be inspired!

Rusty Pups and Their New Skills

They have worked out how to climb the stairs

So nowhere is safe anymore

All doors are shut tight.

And it appears the stairs are quite delicious.

 I have been thinking of changing their collective name from Rusty Pups

to

Adorables

but then sometimes

Deplorables

is more appropriate

Sleeping beneath my box of dreams

would be considered an 'Adorable' moment.

When those moments of quiet occur

I stitch waves of bushes and foliage

I think the title of this piece will be

She Loved The Woods

The Deadline for this piece us coming up fast

So I'm hoping it will tell me it's story is complete pretty soon!

Right now I am adding an evergreen canopy...

....above woodland bushes.

But the pups are awake again

deciding whether to play with a long legged rooster.

an old sock

or 

wouldn't it be even more fun to dig up the garden.

We've never had diggers before!

They love greeting visitors

especially Handy Hubby on his return from golf.