Another pink quilt?

Maybe...
I've got so much pink fabric leftover from my 12x12 quilt that I have to use some of it.
I've been cutting, piecing, cutting again...
Something is slowly taking shape on the design wall... But it is pink, very pink, so pink that it badly needs some blue addition.
Even the sky is a little pink these days...
The snow is melting today. I'm not sure we'll have a very white Christmas after all.

Cold, very cold...

... way too cold for me!
I'm spending the day inside, reading, sewing, drawing and writing...

Snow

We knew it. It was going to snow. But still, it was again a nightmare on the roads yesterday. I was lucky to be back home before it got really serious.

And today, it looks like it's going to snow again. Maybe we'll have a white Christmas this year.
My old dog had fun in the garden this morning. But he gets tired so quickly now that I think I'll go for a walk all by myself this afternoon.

A rose in autumn

This is my pink quilt for the new Twelve by Twelve challenge.
When we decided to work on a "Colorplay" series, I thought this was the perfect opportunity to just do that: play with colours, and experiment with different surface design processes, and not worry too much about the meaning of my quilts.
But almost as soon as Diane said "pink", I thought "rose", (pink in French). And an epicurean poem by Pierre de Ronsard kept coming to my mind... "Mignonne, allons voir si la rose...", where he compares the brevity of youth to the fragility of a rose.
In the meantime, I stuck to my idea of simply experimenting with colours and surface design, not willing to embark on philosophical and complicated thoughts about my age, my growing children, my wrinkles, my cute granddaughter, my emptying nest...
I held on and I started to screenprint fabric with pink and turquoise dyes. I experimented with deconstructed (breakdown) screen printing, and played on the design wall with the resulting fabrics... One of the pieces I got made me think of fading rose petals...
Then, one day, I found a tiny pink rosebud in the garden. I took a few pictures, burned two screens, and decided to incorporate it into my quilt.
But you know, I just made a pink quilt. And I like it.
And don't forget to check the Twelve by Twelve blog to see the quilts made by the other members of the group .

Rose prints

I made two screens from the rosebud picture, and did some test prints on my deconstructed printed fabric. First, I used thickened dyes, then I did some kind of echo printing with fabric paint. Some of the images turned out rather good. I plan to use them in a second pink quilt (as soon as I find the time to do this!)
This is how the rosebud now looks in real life...
And Saint Nicolas came to our home this weekend... Like Gerrie (and her dog Scooter :-)), we are slowly getting into holiday mood here...

Small quilts

I've been fighting off a nasty virus, and I forgot to post these two little A4 quilts that I sent last week to Laura for her Colours of Africa project...
The other day I found a tiny little rosebud in the garden.
I took a few pictures of it, and played with them on the computer. I might use this for my 12x12 pink quilt...

Is this pink?

For me, it is pink. Well, it is fuschia, which is a kind of pink. Isn'it?
I've carefully added more turquoise dye in some spots.
I rather like how it looks now, but it still needs something more...
And after all this thinking and experimenting, this is what I cooked for our dinner today... tofu, mushrooms, green beans, and red bell pepper...