©2013, Insomnia, Paula Kovarik
Here's a work-in-progress shot of a piece I am doing about that netherworld we all feel while trying to go to sleep on a full brain. It is done on a pillow sham given to me by a friend.
rescued from the scrap heap
Earth Stories scrap pillows
This is what happened to that piece I scrapped in March (see previous post here). There is something very comforting about taking a rotary cutter to a piece that did NOT satisfy.
Now I can forget the agony.
webbed
The bugs are making their last efforts before the chilling nights arrive. We have clouds of mosquiltos, armies of ants and sporadic spiders everywhere. This one was particularly industrious and perfect yesterday. A thrilling sketch that could be my next quilting diagram.
stream of consequences
Stream of Consequences, © Paula Kovarik, 2013
done. This piece, a 72" x 72" study of the good things being done by the Wolf River Conservancy has finally come to an end. This is a small detail. I have named it Stream of Consequences.
The SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) exhibit, Earth Stories, will show the entirety of this piece in April of next year at the Michigan State University Art Museum. It has been a long journey of stitching stitching stitching. Now I think I will turn my thoughts to the thousands of other ideas I had while on that journey.
But first I will remove all trace of this one.