In late August, when I was not working at the Home Arts Dept. at The Fair, I was playing around with some of my favorite bright fabrics and some curves. I started what I call my "Pizza Rounds" quilt. To me, it is an art quilt. It hangs in my quilt room, where it adds nicely to the atmosphere. My quilt room has a lot of atmosphere.
Our daughter came to visit in the first half of November, and we had so much fun. We went on a day trip to Twin Falls, where we strolled down Main Avenue, window shopping. We discovered several interesting places and spoke with a number of engaging people, especially small businesswomen.
We met a friendly print shop cat, and an adorable creativity shop bulldog. This little bulldog was the shop greeter at "Altered Purposes". The shop, Altered Purposes, is amazing. It has stuff creative of all types, not limited to wood, ribbons, decals, metal, paper craft, paint, inspiration for upcycling, classes, and bunting. I bought some small drawer handles, that I intend to use on an art quilt. I also bought some woodless watercolor pencils and a length of plaid grosgrain ribbon, which I used to make my "Ever Was" graffiti quilt. My daughter asked the owner, who happens to be a woman veteran like my daughter and I, if she had a room upstairs for rent, as she would love to live upstairs and come down every day to play. My daughter does a bit of sewing and is very creative, and her true creative love is everything Halloween.
She has inspired me to do some Halloween quilts, bunting, and some small art quilts. I have taken about a month off from quilting, and now I am trying to clean the Christmas lights and wrapping stuff off my quilt table. Just this evening, I got a little twitch to do some piecing, so I better get my table cleared off, so I can get going again.
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