Yet Another Wall Hanging Quilt created with a Picture of my Fennel Bush

Good evening to all! its a another pretty day on the coast! Today I finished another wall hanging quilt and this my very own design.  I had some wonderful green fat quarters, some cotton novelty fabric, buttons, quilting batting and a photo that I took of my Fennel bush!
Oh how I love this bush! it smells wonderful and I can make homemade Fennel tea with it.  The bush also brings all kinds bees and other bugs to it I even once had a humming have a go at it.
The photo has different overlays on which I have used my smart photo editor to get this look and I printed the photo onto muslin.  The quilt design was just done by hand so I can't make a duplicate!
I did some fancy folding and shaping the green fabric to get the look it has and I added the buttons, sewing them on by hand and sewing with cotton thread on the sewing machine the quilt is 17 X 17.
You may ask what I am trying to do? well I trying hard to come up with one of kind designs created by me and I am hoping one day the quilts will really stand up and be noticed and I really hope people will like them!  The quilt also has a smaller picture and I used the green and attached it to the main quilt before adding the batting and backing.  The last little thing is recycling pop can tabs  for hanging the quilt.
I really like how it turned and I be adding it to the Etsy store It's Just Frankly Kute.
I am working hard on 2 new quilts and I have designed a witch pattern for a witch of course! and some silly black cats.
Hoping you all have a great evening
pamela

A Lovely Day on Social Security Beach, the river beach in Astoria Oregon/Warrenton Oregon

 Every year I get to see one of my favorite bird the Pelicans! This one picture turned fairly nice! what a beautiful day on the Columbia River! Across the river is Washington!  The dry sand was almost to hot to walk on what a great pre-birthday day! Today is my birthday!! hooray! turning the big 52! yesterday was my mom's birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY and my parents Anniversary!!!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

 It was exciting not only pelicans but lots of jelly fish! I tried really hard to catch one and you can kind of see it.  If you look close you can see a bit of pink and black... that's the jelly fish! baby crabs were washing up too and the seagulls were having a field day with them!

 You can also drive on the river beach which is call Social Security beach and fish away!

People and dogs loving the day!

Saturday's What are You Working on Projects Halloween fabric Bowl , Fabric Bowl and Black Bear Painting

 Good Saturday morning to everyone! Boy did the weekend sneak up on me! Seems we are getting awful close to fall time and back to school, dang! I need just a little more summertime.
A couple of days back I got to looking at all my story book panels of fabric and I have lots I was thinking quilts when I bought the fabrics but I ran across this wonderful crafting, quilting store in Astoria Oregon called  http://homespunquilt.com/ and they had this wonderful panel local old Salmon Cannery Labels  on fabric.  I had to get some naturally! because I also saw something really cool fabric bowls being made out of the labels, and that's what is pictured below a bowl I created using this fabric.  So hit me like bricks, why not do this with the story book panels?  I also bought some Pellon 2 sided extra firm fusible stabilizer at the store and just love it!

What I doing in the pictures is taking the Charlie Brown Halloween story book panel and cutting two panels for the top and two panels for the bottom, I bought 2-3 panels because I love the story of the Great Pumpkin!  I ironed the panels to the 2 side stabilizer and cute the panels at angels to make the bowls and I might do a better tutorial for making these type of fabric bowls.

 This my own design so I am not using any patterns, in this picture is how the Old Cannery label turned out, its more of an oval bowl and I have added a plaid wire ribbon and some other cute cotton fabric to the outside of the bowl.

 This is the outside of the bowl is this not cute fabric too? I just really like it and this I got at Joann's in the Novelty section.  The very last picture is my latest creation with the card stock paper and my acrylic paints.  I created my own idea of a local black bear! My hubby saw it and said that's more of a brown bear, but the black bears do a have a bit of brown in them.  Oh well I like how it turned out!  The bear is laying on an old log in the Oregon woods and its suppose to be black berry vines and leaves in front of him.  I feel every artist sees things just a bit different than the rest of the world don't you?

My Early Early Birthday Present! & the Little Lady Bug Rag Cloth doll

 I just love my early birthday present! a bit of fabric needles, buttons, cording, fuse backing, and ink jet fabric!  Now I will be busy busy playing with all these new items!  I also got some clothes and jewelry! Later on I will get dinner out!  My birthday is not until the 19th but that's okay!

 I just finished this 16 inch rag cloth doll using felt and I am busy designing a free patter for you all! I was working on it and Poppy was giving me a helping hand.  I also will a video tutorial on how to make this little doll and I plan on post it on my YouTube channel.  So in a few more days I will have a tab where you can download this pattern for the Little ladybug doll.

Am Idea for a Wall hanging Quilt my art, my camera and soon some fabric

Good late Saturday afternoon to all! I just love messing around with my drawing ability, camera and photo overlays.  In the first one I created my very own fall scene using water color paper and my acrylic maker paints then I took some pictures of the completed art work and and some overlays, just has enhancing the colors and making it sharper I also added a water color over lay and loved how it turned out!! so I am planning on printing this on some jet ink fabric and making a fall wall hanging quilt!

In the pictures below I did everything almost similar but in the last photo the overlay is negative and I love how it turned out so it will be a very color Halloween quilt in the coming days.  I just love my Smart photo editor!  There are so many ideas running wildly through my mind on all that I can do and lots of ideas are quilting ideas! because I love to quilt!  I have done a few more drawings up and I will be sharing those with you too, they are fall scenes also and I plan winter and spring.  I will share step by step how each of these will come along and turn out!

Finished Wall hanging Bird Quilts for Wednesday July 31st 2013

 Good morning to everyone! I wanted to share a couple of wall hanging quilts that I have just finished.  The first at the top is from one of my own photos that I took of some Arctic Terns that we get here on the Oregon coast.  I took the photograph and did some overlays, one was my favorite which is a watercolor overlay.  Then I printed the photo on some ink jet fabric to print on and did an iron on transfer.  Next I found some great cotton quilting fat quarters to use for the quilt.  Blues were the colors I picked for this quilt and some pretty stitching to go along.  I designed how I wanted the quilt to look with no patterns and I love how the quilt came out.
In the second photo is a primitive wall hanging quilt, once again I used the ink jet fabric accept the crow was not an iron, instead I used the sew in printed fabric and I like it better than the iron on.  The crow was a graphic I found on line for free and I used cinnamon, coffee and vanilla for staining the printed out crow.  I let the staining just by picking the fabric and moving around and let it just air dry.  I added a bit of oil pastel to the top and on the crow to give it a bit more grubby look.  Both quilts are back with quilting batting and contrasting fabric.  I added buttons to both quits and I hand sew them on using quilting thread.  I pulled tabs off of soda cans to hand sew on the back of quilts for hanging.  I have lots of fun creating both quilts and I am planing doing some more quilts up.  So I have been trying to stay busy keeping my mind off of the hive outbreaks and trying to get the blood sugar levels back down, funny how quilting will take your mind off all the troubles!  I almost forgot to tell you where I got everything at Joann's the quilt quarters, buttons thread, batting and the jet ink fabrics, I also have each quilt a tiny personal touch by signing them.  In  a couple days I will share pictures of a doll/dolls I have been creating.

Sharing a video about crafting on some Plastic Cutting Boards for cute home decor

It has been a long while and I am truly sorry, I have just had a real battle with hives and way high blood sugar.  I think I have lost some hearing in one ear and I am headed back in to doctor to find out how bad.  While I have been away I have been crafting and this is one of my recent creations.  I hope you all will watch and try this! its a fun way to create decor for the holidays.