I made this last year from a paper piecing pattern in Quilters Newsletter Magazine. I enlarged the pattern to different sizes to represent my 4 grandchildren. I love the pattern, little kids dressed as ghosts "trick or treating".
It's really hard to get a good picture of all 4 kids at once. This is the neighbors display that we visited everyday, the twins called it "Arts garden".
They weren't too sure about this witch!
We had lots of fun carving pumpkins and roasting the seeds. (my daughter, her children and cousin)
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Happy Halloween
Posted by Kathy -MIQuilter
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Some more pictures of my wool
Ok, I really did do some weaving, I was just beginning a center pattern when Sarah pulled out the dye pots, then I couldn't focus on weaving, hopefully I finish it this winter, if I'm ever home. (Good thing I love hand work). The dark center color is my indigo dyed yarn, the salmon is madder root. The grays and cream are commercial yarns. The picture is dark and doesn't show the colors well. (Double clicking on the pictures seem to give a much truer color).
The ball on the left is Navajo tea, the second is dried wild carrot root both with Sarah's alum.
I dyed this fabric at home with Rabbit Bush we picked on the way home.







Well, Saturday I fly to my daughters in Florida, she is having surgery and I'm flying down to take care of my grandsons for two weeks. I can't wait to see them. The oldest is 9, then twins will be 3 Monday and the baby who is one and a half but thinks he's 3. I don't think I'll have time to do much sewing, but we'll see. I'll "see" you the end of October. Have a wonderful fall, it's my favorite time of year and I'm off to balmy Florida, which is still very hot and muggy.
Posted by Kathy -MIQuilter
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
A little more from the weaving workshop
On a couple of afternoons we went on field trips to some local trading posts to see the Navajo rugs. One of the posts was 110 years old. The rugs were so beautiful. This is a couple of weaving looms.






I still have to take a picture of my part-way finished weaving. I've been trying use up all of my dye plants since I've been home while they are fresh, and haven't has time to weave (oh and I've had to work to).
Posted by Kathy -MIQuilter
Friday, October 5, 2007
Weaving workshop
Our weaving workshop (a week long) was at Sarah Natani's compound in Shiprock, New Mexico. She is a master Navajo weaver. She has traveled all over the world teaching. These are her Churro sheep where she gets her wool for her weaving.
I think this is a angora sheep, he's the only one who would look at the camera. He was so cute.
Learning to warp the loom (there are a lot of steps to it).


















Next week I'll show some of the Navajo's weavings we saw on our field trips, they're wonderful. Also, some of my dyed wool fabrics and yarn with the "Navajo" plants. And my partially finished weaving, I first have to get the loom back together. Since I've been home I've been dying in my "spare" time with the plants we brought home.
Posted by Kathy -MIQuilter
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
We're home and back to the real world, darn.
We left on vacation a week and a half before the weaving workshop began and explored the Southeast area of Utah. There is a State Park called Gobling, called this as all the rock sculputres look like goblins, mushrooms, and houses that could have been on the movie Lord of the Rings. This is a few of the scultures.














Tomorrow I'll put on some of the pictures from the weaving workshop, its so hard to pick which pictures to use as we took over 200 and I'm trying not to bore you.
Posted by Kathy -MIQuilter