More envelope backs with Zentangles. These have all been mailed. I think I need more envelopes.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape
Escape. One of the places I go to be a tourist is Houston, Texas, taking advantage of what the big city offers.
The Art Car Museum is a good place to start.
Tired and Feathered by Joe Haden of Crockett, Texas
The Beer Can House is interesting. Yes, those are all beer cans and beer can tabs.
Beer Can House
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston was my main destination for this trip, to see the Picasso Black and White exhibit. No photos were allowed of the exhibit, but here is a sort-of cubism photo of the building.
Picasso Black and White
Other exhibits in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston are attention-worthy and photographs are allowed. Here is a sarcophagus panel from the 2nd century A.D.
Panther from a sarcophagus, 2nd century A.D.
And when all is said and done and I’m exhausted, I find respite on a tree-lined path across from the museum. Cool and serene.
Tree-lined and serene
Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape
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More samples of a Sunday morning art session.
Zentangle Envelope Art
Zentangle Envelope Art
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I spent Sunday morning in an “art mode.” Here are some of the results.
Envelope backs with Zentangles
Stella’s Quilt
Here’s a quilt I made for baby Stella, due to come into this world the first week of December. I used the Macaroon Bali Pop for the main part of the quilt and other batiks for the border and back.
Maybe I should have included sunglasses with the quilt.
The pattern is the Jelly Roll Race pattern, using 15 2.5-inch strips. I read the pattern wrong (surprise!) and had to take off four rows at the bottom that I placed perpendicular to the main part. Why did I sew them on that way? When the directions for the baby quilt said “sew the last four strips to the bottom,” well, that’s what I did. What I didn’t understand is that all the seams were supposed to be facing the same direction. My last four seems were at a 90-degree angle. It looked odd.
Yes, it looked odd and it was wrong. Fortunately for me, Shelly knew what it was supposed to look like and helped me out (again). I removed the wrong-way rows and then decided that a large border is what it needed. I like the way it turned out and I hope Stella likes it, too. This is the second quilt I’ve ever made. The first one was years ago and I ruined it when I quilted it. This quilt still looked presentable even after I quilted it. I must be improving.
Two for Harrison, an up-and-coming big brother!
Stella doesn’t know it, but she will have a brother waiting for her when she arrives. I made Harrison two Dr Seuss pillow cases to celebrate his promotion to older brother.
It's a long story ... 