I am working in my studio journal today. I brought along some photos for inspiration. The background was already painted with some left over dye. I have sketched the flowers and leaves in pencil. They are a little hard to see but I will be going over the lines again with black ink and then filling in more color with Inktense pencils.

You need to click on the photo to be able to see the sketched in lines on the right page. Hopefully, I can show you the finished page tomorrow.

We drove home to Richmond today and I stiched on the traveling Kantha piece. I did add a bit of satin stitch to make a more established focal point.

 Here’s most of the piece so you can see how much I’ve stitched.

Here’s the satin stitch spiral. I only have a small amount of this thread left, it’s hand dyed wool. I think I need to add more of it to balance the spiral out somewhat. I will be stitching more on the way home perhaps.

Here’s the view out our hotel window. We finished at the market and went shopping in the afternoon. Does trying on clothing count as my daily dose of fiber??

I spent a few minutes this morning stitching before we arrived in Philadelphia. We visited Buyers Market of American Craft and I did see some very nice fiber art at the show, lots of nuno felted scarves and several people who make hand felted items.

Sorry there are no photos but I have been trying for more than an hour to upload a photo which didn’t work and now we are going to dinner. I will show you my traveling Kantha piece another time.   Hope you have a nice weekend.

Edited to include photo.

Hmmm… Wouldn’t it be nice if they had couches on planes? But of course that’s a big no and I was couching down yarn to my applique piece on the plane. We’re on our way to Philadelphia today.

 So it is complete. I used the same green yarn that I used for the blue and red applique.

Here’s a closer view. These little blue men really look like body builders now!