ice dogwood
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

This is what the world was covered with this morning. I love the way the whole tree is reflected in the top of the ice.

Jan 29
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

A stack of fabrics with holes that line up, black strips woven through the holes, accentuated with bleach pen. This is before I rinsed off the bleach pen, and the dried pen marks make a nice lumpy emphasis on the presence of the holes.

I tried to do something yesterday, but between the snow storm and drops in my eyes from an eye exam the entire world was fuzzy and blurry, and I could see nothing. I wound up napping for a huge chunk of it, waiting to get my eyes back!

I definitely made up for it today, because look what else I finished the stitching on:

Reverse Maple Leaves –

reverse maples
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

the relicts from making Ten Maples Leaves, which needs stitching and I'll show it then.

Jan 27
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

I managed this one Tuesday, and failed to get it out of the camera. The center is a piece of fabric with circles fused to it, woven into strips of hand dyed blue. I tried to accentuate the circles with bleach pen on the the blue strips, but it didn’t work very well.