Finally finished! this have been in my closet for over a year, it's not like it BIG or anything :(  There are others in there too, waiting and waiting for finishing!   someday :)

Mardi Gras/Carnival Style Portrait ~

Sorry colors did not come out ~ This is done in blues/greens
This is my portrait of Jill Scott Mardi Gras/Carnival style.
Still needs the earrings, the scarf needs finishing and then the quilting.
Bummed that the colors would come out, I took many pictures and this is the best I could do!

Art Quilt of Jill Scott ~

I saw pictures of  a class  doing an art quilt of Jill Scott, on sistah stitch alot's blogspot from a few years ago.  I really liked it, so I thought I'd give it a try. I'm still deciding if I like the shirt or not, I'm going to set aside for awhile and ponder :) I think I need to ponder about the quilting too! Going camping on Wednesday for five days, the weather forecast for San Diego is sunny, sunny, sunny for the week, lets hope they are right!
Enjoy ~

Art Quilts ~

 I have three art quilts going at once! They're  so  fun to do, although they are very time consuming. This is another one of my granddaughters on the beach in Maui, can you tell that's  Molokai in the back ground?  Still have many waves to add, sand needs to be finished, clouds need to be added and all the fine details, which I'm already fretting about!
Aloha!

Making Faces....

I bought the the DVD, Making Faces by Maria Elkins.  I couldn't wait to try it out....  This is a picture of my granddaughter. I was just practicing so it is done with scrap fabrics.  It's small at 7x9. Can't wait to do it in some pretty colors and a bit bigger.

auditioning fabrics....

Woohoo! It is finally done! I struggled with the hand a lot! First my fingers looked to chubby, then the shading was wrong, I worked on it all day on Wednesday and still didn't like the end result.  I need to practice, practice, pratice!
I want to thank Leni Wiener for all her help! Check out her blog at:  www.leniwiener.com
She is very creative!
So now I'm auditioning fabrics for my portrait quilt, thinking I'm going with blue.... maybe green. Boy this is harder than I thought!
Have a good day!

Portrait....

This is what I've been working on. Just need to fix a couple of things on the hand, and I can start auditioning  different background fabrics. Thinking of blue/green.

The hand is bothering me, it just doesn't look right, maybe this way is a bit better, I need HELP!