Gone to the Dogz

I need some dogs for something I'm working on.  I took a photo of Rosie and inked it onto some cotton fabric with fabric Sharpies and Tsukineko inks -- sorry -- I didn't take a picture.  I layered the inked image with wool batting and used Decor-Bond on the back to make it stable, then I stitched all over it with my machine.  I did iron the sandwich to make it flat before I stitched -- and I had to hit it again with the iron to flatten it after the stitching.

I drew up some Jack Russell Terriers to keep Rosie company and did the same layering thing with batt and stabilizer.  I found some great variegated greys among my stash of Aurifil threads -- those would be the two grey ones on the right side of the photo.  These are all 50w spools.

Then I covered the little terriers with thread.

I am linking up with Nina-Marie at Off the Wall Fridays.

Is it Summer Yet?

I know -- it's almost over.  The past few weeks have been a whirlwind of family, friends, and excitement.  Not all of it has been good, but I will spare my readers the bad stuff and share some of the fun stuff.

The top picture is from an all too brief camping trip with some friends in central Wisconsin.  This is the Fox River.  Every morning I was awakened by the rather loud call of Whooping Cranes.  But I could never get close enough to photograph them.  The only picture I took of them flying away didn't even capture them in the shot!


So I sketched one on some fabric with my new markers -- more about the markers below.

We spent a lot of time hiking around the area -- the campground where we stayed had some wonderful footpaths skirting the marshes (where I could hear those cranes whooping it up).



I don't know what these wildflowers are, but I like them.

Of course we brought the dogs -- Scout is just too cool.

And Rosie was happy.

I took my daughter to visit my father in California.  This was her first time at the beach since she was a toddler.  I could hardly get her out of the waves  -- and she felt the same about the pool.

There were tons of pelicans flying about -- but of course never when I had my camera out.  Here are my new markers -- they were half price, so I snuck them in with the school supplies --- shhhh....

There is no brown marker in the package, so I used orange and purple.

We visited the Museum of Making Music (here).   And this is DD playing guitar under a picture of three of my four favorite musicians -- this iconic photo was taken by Henry Diltz before Neil Young joined the band.   I have lots more photos from the museum -- I'll probably use them in future projects.