After all the additions are stitched down it will time to add the batting/backing and finish the water. Then I can play with lilies,...

It didn't take too long to place and fine tune the alignment of the pieces that 'crossed over' to another panel. A little bit of trimming...

The 'reflections' on the pond were plotted out on paper that was cut and marked to the final size and all the registrations from...

A number of things have kept me busy. The usual summer things. We're now spared the smoke from the eastern fires now so it makes being...

Tomorrow this will be put on the stretcher frame and hang on my wall. In the meantime..Enjoy.

Before I added a carpet of ferns and leaf litter it was time to finalize the ground and the tree trunk with thread work. The trunk of the...

It looks as though, for a while, I'll only be able to work in the mornings on this piece. A heat wave has settled in and unfortunately,...

I put some final shrubs into the background and then started in on the Fern population.

Rainy Day. At the start of assembling a piece with multiple colour zones I try to pick a background that best embodies the area, eg blue...

Today I doubled the size of the fern patch on the tree. In the midground, the edge of the shrub floor was given a base of yellowed fern....

I decided to forego my 8K bike ride this AM. The humidity was already high and the air quality readings were poor due to the wildfire...

Filling in the understory of the woods takes time and uses small increments. A hoop of free motioned trees and shrubs takes time and...

I did try a few things before I settled on using tulle based embroidery. It's direct and quick and a method I'm very comfortable with....

I slipped a sheet of flat batting behind the tree trunk before I stitched all the folded dark netting. I was prepared this morning to...

I wanted to do something different. It was too big to use the smocking/pleater machine. I ended up cutting strips and pieces in three...

I had some green cheesecloth scraps with a fusible material on them so after a bit of shaping they were ironed on. A little black stained...

As part of a demonstration, I explained and illustrated to those at the workshop how I analyse a picture. This is to simplify the complex...

I couldn't find a picture of the original quilt on line but it's a good size, roughly 54 inches before the black border was added....

Garden is under control and I finally got back to fibre. I do have a quilt on my longarm destined for the Royal City Quilt Guild outreach...