Happy Monday!

My guild hosted its annual quilt show this weekend and it was lots of fun with 157 beautiful quilts. Our guild does have a boutique during this show but not a vendor area. However, there was a member there demonstrating machine embellishing and she was selling some kits she made up with silk threads, colorful skeins of floss and sequin type embellishments. I couldn’t resist the colors of these fibers so this pack came home with me…

Last week I was watching Quilting Arts and saw some water soluble crayons and colored pencils being used to create backgrounds on small art quilts. The artist would color with the pencils and then use water to spread the color around. The colors are more intense than with watercolor pencils and they dry on the quilt as permanent ink. I checked my supplies and found I only had watercolor pencils so yes, you guesses it, I got myself to Michael’s and paid a pretty penny for these babies…

These are Inktense blocks that will work like a pencil but they are a bit thicker. I had wanted the pencils but they were sold out and I decided these would work just fine. I used a coupon and got them down from $35 to $17. I can’t wait to play a bit with them over the next few weeks. My mind is churning possibilities as I type.

Does anyone out there have experience with these?

The 95 degree weather finally broke and so I am hoping to get out the garden this week. There’s lots of work out there to be done. Of course it takes away from quilting time though…boo hoo.

Sandi