After completing "Spooky Houses" Kawandi style art quilt, I realized I had a chance to enter an art quilt into the Idaho-Montana Regional SAQA Trunk Show. The trunk show title is "Stories". I did a couple sketches in July for this, but things got so busy I entirely forgot about it. Then there was another call, extending the deadline to October 15, so I thought about it on October 5, Saturday night, and decided to do a simpler sketch. On Sunday, I got busy creating. I finished it up on Monday night and had it in the mail on Tuesday. It is a part of my childhood story of growing up on the Boise National Forest. The piece is titled: The North Cabin. It is the required 7" X 9", for the Trunk Show. I am pleased to participate.
I still had all my Halloween fabrics out, so I decided to do another Kawandi. I wanted it to be light-hearted and different. I used my ghetto reverse-applique technique on some of the words, some raw-edge applique, some over-dying, as well as Kawandi techniques. I just had to have some cake in there! I completed it on October 15.
Of course, I attended the Fall Frolic up at Cascade, last week. I did a demo on Kawandi style, then on our last full day, I started another Kawandi. I had brought my scrap bin to share in case anyone was inspired to try it. Three people did! We were all working on them simultaneously, which was a lot of fun. I worked in some red scraps, I was given about five years ago, and it took me longer than I expected, but it was worth it. It is titled: Fashion Statement. It is also my tenth Kawandi this year.
