If You Were In The Woods Today

You would have seen icy snow

hovering over the stream....

Fungi clinging on the sunny sides of trees....

Fallen trees slowly enriching the land...

Lush green lichen spreading over broken bark....

And perhaps a Rusty Pup of two

If only I could find the other one but

She's off hunting deeper in the woods.

A Week Scratched on Cloth

Perhaps winter is waning.

On Monday fourteen of us met at Laurie's home

Some of us knit great socks!

Not me...I never did finish my one attempt! 

Handy Hubby looked out the front window

and there on the front porch was a mink

looking back at him.

Mark and Donna have set a June date for their wedding.

Handy Hubby went down the road to help a friend

bottle his wine.

Time on Face Time organizing

Taking snapshots of  this week's scratchings

I smashed my one year old camera

against that rock

and now the lens cover is smashed into a thousand pieces.

Oh joy!

Supposed to illustrate "springing forward"

'cos we jumped forward to daylight savings time.

A Monochromatic World

The Teasels are still standing tall through wind and snow

The squirrels are out munching even as the snow swirls around them

The old rusty wheel is probably rusting up a bit more

getting ready to transfer that lovely colour onto cotton next summer

The baby spruce are weighed down with a fresh coating

and

it's hard to believe

I spied snowdrops preparing to bloom just a couple of days ago

A Scratching Post

Just keeping ourselves amused between snow storms!

Needle pulling thread

Indigo blue cloth marked with bleach

Indigo blue thread scratching

Sometimes we can learn from using the colours we don't like

Some days bring strange doodles in stitch!

The woods are weighed down with a fresh coat of snow

Ancient scratchings stitched

Ancient pottery markings stitched

That was the week that was

Walking the Woods Under a Clear Blue Sky

Jan and me and the Rusty Pups

walked the woods

with eyes following our every step!

we spied crystals on the stream

frozen pillars

and bubbling waters.

Right at the end of our walk

to our surprise

we spied

the old maple tree preparing to burst into life.

Spring might not be too far away.

Starting points

A small group of eight artists

(mostly painters but also a writer, a photographer

and a couple of us fibre folk)

Will be having a show in July which we have decided to call

Quotes, Quirks and Quiddity.

Each of us has been given a piece of sheer fabric about 7ft long

on which we have to put our body!

So Handy Hubby and I tried to photograph my body

which was soon obliterated by two Rusty Pups.

After banishing RP's from the room

we finally got a snapshot

which I then played around with on my hand dandy ipad.

We printed it HUGE

and now I have drawn myself onto my fabric.

My intent is to simply stitch it in black thread to make it look like a sketch

but

my glasses will be stitched red.

That is my plan

but I've already had two false starts!

Things might change again.

Scratch Crazy

Wind

Blizzard

Sunshine

Sleet

All in one week

Staying indoors as the wind and snow whoosh around the house

The sun made an appearance

a weak sun

but the sun nonetheless

Feeling closed in

by sleet this time

Finally a wonderful day out making marks with Diane and Jan

Haven't a clue!

Some days you doodle and it just doesn't look good

even though it was a good day!

Finally on Sunday was feeling delicate after a Saturday evening of instant theatre.