I have some of these uploaded to Spoonflower but will get them all uploaded soon. On spoonflower at October Cat Studios. Thanks for looking!
KIMagination
Where whimsy and creativity meet
Thursday, June 15, 2023
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Quilt for Levi
Just thought I’d pop on here to let you all know I’m still crafting! Last June we moved and my art room is now unpacked and as messy as ever, ha, ha! We moved from Lexington, VA to Forest, Va and when I was in Lexington I was a nanny to this awesomely cute little boy named Levi. Every day we would dig in the dirt pile and play with dump trucks, monster trucks and dinosaurs. I miss him so very much! I have seen him a few times since we moved and every time I see him he lights up my world.
Last fall I visited a new quilt shop, near my current residence, and found the perfect panel to make a quilt for my little Levi. It was supposed to be a Christmas gift but you know how hectic the holidays are. We didn’t see each other till last month… so he got his Christmas gift for Valentine’s Day… better late than never!
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Welcome back!
Wow what a crazy two years it's been since I last posted! My husband is a Methodist minister and in March we got a phone call saying that we were being relocated; yes, the United Methodists work like the military, they say we go, and we have no choice. I am still bitter about how the whole thing was handled but here I am. I will post pictures of my latest quilts and other things I've been working on later, but for now peace, love and cats!
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Merry Christmas and another new endeavor for me
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
"Let's Go Fly a Kite"
Our meetings are held the second Saturday of the month and guess what? The Coronavirus closed everything down the day before our meeting! Fast forward four months and last weekend we were finally able to have our meeting outside sitting 6' apart from one another.
I WON FIRST PLACE!!
I wanted to walk you through my process. First I cut a piece of muslin the size I wanted the quilt to be, remembering not to go over 100" diameter. This ended up being 15" X 35" Then I laid my fabric options out along side of it:
The little girls head is a wooden ball wrapped in brown fabric then attached to a pipe cleaner armature. I then wrapped the pipe cleaners with brown embroider floss. Her yellow eyelet dress was made from a thrift store find.
I love a good challenge, I can't wait till next year!!
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
New app and new pen
Also the app I am now using is Procreate. I'm sure everyone in the world has heard of it except for me but now I'm on board guys! So here are my 5 latest drawings:
Sunday, April 19, 2020
You can teach an old dog new tricks
I’m sure you’re wondering what video games has to do with crafting. Well, I have found a few apps that let me transform on pictures into watercolors or Monet-type paintings. And while this is fun, I want to be more creative. Enter the world of drawing apps! I NEVER thought I’d find this art form satisfying but guess what? I do! My favorite one is called Sketchbook although I’ve downloaded Procreate because everyone says that’s the best one to get. I can see why everyone says it’s good but it doesn’t have the one feature that I like about Sketchbook: the division aspect. Let me show you:
I start out like this:
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Since March 13,2020
My quilt guild meeting was supposed to be held Saturday, March 14, where we were to enter our guild challenge quilt that I had been working on since November. Actually I had finished mine in December but I was so excited to show everyone what I had done... and to post pictures here!
It has been 3 1/2 weeks now and I know this will go down in history AND I know I should be writing about it but I am still dumbfounded by it all. For introverts like me I LOVE this time, I don't have to interact with people and I can sew all day. But then I watch the news and it scares me, no it terrifies me! I worry about my parents in WI and really wished they didn't live that far away. But I check on my mom daily to make sure they are wearing masks when going out... not that they should be going out except for groceries and medicines.
And if anyone is reading this years later, YES we had to wear masks in public. There are a lot of tutorials on how to make masks with household items but when you are a quilter like me you have fabric for the entire world! But it takes time.
My sister-in-law asked me if I could make a total of 19 for her and family and friends. I was hesitant at first only because I had never made one and it made it seem that more real. But I did and I'm glad I did. I dropped them in the mail yesterday and felt good that I had given 5 people a little hope for not contracting this disease.
Stay safe and stay at home everyone. What they keep saying on the news is that we need to "flatten the curve."