Happy New Year 2025!

Nothing exciting  New Year's Eve for the Payne's!  We're not ones to go out and are quite content to stay home, get in bed before midnight, then watch Two and Half Men or Everybody Loves Raymond!  It was a sad day with the death of 10+ folks in New Orleans's to wake up to.  So, so sad.

I'm not one to make New Year's resolutions...but I have been giving a lot of thought to my not doing art work, whether mixed media or art quilts, as I have in the past.  Yes, I've been knitting but I can do all of them, right!

I did  get in some quilting early December and made two little totes for my friend, Donna's, daughters.  I cut up an old vest I made back in the 90's!  I actually have 2 or 3 more that I'll cut up at some point in time.  The black was the front of the vest!

I printed a large leaf on fabric to then quilt and use on the back of the quilt.  It was really nice but I used wool batting and to be honest, it always felt so strange on my back!  I felt like I had cotton against me!  HA 

Each tote is around 8"x6" with a zipper closure.  I made some of these for gifts two years ago when I visited with relatives in Ohio. 

So now I want to get back into doing some mixed media work.  I got out some of my older sketchbooks from my classes with Hilary.  They were a good inspiration for me to get moving!

These were fun to put in a sketch book for ideas for a quilt or just to 'warm' up!

I started with this collage....our 'lesson' was to merge the two pictures into one using paints, pencils, etc.  I started at the top...

And this was the finish.  Not great but it did get me excited to start back into 'playing'!!!  

I also added some color to the bottom, which was a separate picture from a magazine.  

Still stitching on the Cyano Print piece too!  See I can multi task!!

Onward and upward!