NO POWER, BUT.......

 We were without power for over 4 hours the other day......that means: no iron, no sewing machine, no lights, no computer.....  Grrr!  What's a gal to do.....well I don't need electricity for my rotary cutter.

I used the time to start creating a background for a new small art quilt utilizing my newly printed gelli printed fabrics.  Obviously, it needs to be pieced and a decision made regarding the motifs....anxious to get that underway.

WAKING FROM A LONG NAP

After appx. 14 years, health issues, relocations, and lack of enough places to host our monthly meetings has forced the Fiber Junkies to pause.  We hope from time to time we can still gather but for now we take great joy in the memories of the wonderful creative times we have spent together.

The itch to create with pals is great....fortunately several members of the Mountain Art Quilt group got together for an impromptu gelli printing day.

I've enjoyed working with this technique several times before...due to the generosity of equipment borrowed from Fiber Junkies members!  Happily a Christmas gift from our son/family brought me my own plates.  Lot's of Youtube viewing provided new insights and I dug in.

 A lot of time was saved by precutting fabric the appx. size of my plate. 

I learned long ago that in order to come away with usable fabric....I needed to work in a confined color palette ...otherwise I had lots of wonderful fabrics, but nothing that coordinated with each other.

Being as disciplined as this creative gal can be....the approach was pretty successful.

Other participants tried to be very purposeful too.....I loved this approach.......to create a printed cotton design that could then be paired with a sheer overlay.......twice the success!!!

How about these Jason Pollack inspired pieces (above and below)  Fabulous!!

As is typical we get so engrossed in our fiber play, taking photos is almost neglected.  So this is all I have to share, but trust me......everyone went away feeling very satisfied with their 'controlled' 'purposeful' pieces.