Good Morning Ladies,
I am back. Today I will go into the studio and try to finish April. Then I am just going to let the wind take me wherever to play catch up with both of you.

Susan, your pieces are beautiful. I look at each one and wish I had a trip in the works. Are you using images from pictures that you have taken on personal trips? I have stopped trying to figure out what colors you and Elizabeth are using each month.

Elizabeth, I am awestruck by your last two pieces. They are beautiful and both of them pull me in because of the complexity of the layers. I guess Bible study has really paid off--I know where many of these are coming from. Mostly I am thrilled that you are again doing faith based pieces. Knowing what happened to the Beatitudes pieces< I feel like you have completed a circle and come back to your center.

You had mentioned a possible playday/technique day for the round robin, but I think I would like a playday where we could do a stamping layering piece. You are getting such depth with these new pieces and I would like to achieve some similar depth in mine.

A SUGGESTION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS CHALLENGE

The last blogpost about your techniques used to achieve your piece are where I really think we all could benefit and grow. Instead of just posting our pieces, could we each write a description of our techniques that we used? I am sure that even if we each tried a technique that had been written about, our finished products would continue to be totally original works with our own individual flavor.


That being said, I want to admit to both of you that I am now officially overwhelmed by your pieces and am feeling pretty insecure that my future pieces will even measure up. I feel taped up and confined just as much of my supplies are sealed up in boxes.My creative ideas seem to be locked away and I am not sure how to unleash them. I want to create my pieces out of sheer joy and abandonment, and I don't feel any joy inside me at all.

Today my only goal is to create something--and to actually sew--no matter what I end up producing. With that I am off to the studio...