back in the bush and some stitching

I got back to the Isa - with all my luggage this time. Going to Canberra my luggage arrived several days later, and going from Canberra to Brisbane Qantas lost one piece and I collected it 6 days later as I left for home. So I bought lots of new clothes.



There has been lots of rain out here, but not the flooding experianced on the coast and to the south. I took this at Neila last week and normally this is a dry creek bed surrounded by red dust. The landscape is so very lush and green.





It's good to be home but I miss the company of my kids, my family and my friends. I had such a good time with them all.

In November I joined in with an Art Quilt challenge and really enjoyed taking steps into unfamiliar areas.

I have ideas for the December Challenge which was Opposites, but decided to go with the January Challenge of Mask. I did miss all my stuff and being able to just wander down the passage and create something.

Again I chose a book cover so this piece is 18X12".

I started with some ideas for masks but couldn't choose what might work, then I looked at through the eyes of a mask? OK but still not feeling quite right. Then I switched from the noun to the verb - to mask, to hide and came up with cameleon. I decided to applique lots of leaves onto a greeny hand dyed fabric and then somehow add the cameleon.
Again this piece had a mind of it's own and this piece of tribal fabric kept coming to hand. OK it had masks on it, so I decided to go with both and simplified my idea using just 5 leaves and finally just drawing on a cameleon with textas.

The new skills with this were raw edge applique for the leaves, given some form with quilting, and drawing on my quilt..... hmmmmm but I now like it.
February's challenge is Acid and I can't even start to imagine how to go with that - I think some Googleing to start.