Sketchbook

I am so glad that I took my sketchbook to the trip to San Diego, and as well I took a lot of photographs that now I am just delighted to go though again. And they remind me that hey, San Diego is just couple hours away from Las Vegas! I definitely am planning my next trip.

Red

My new pencil drawing to illustrate the topic "RED"

for Illustration Friday project.

Back home from San Diego

If you not following me on Instagram (my user name is paisleyfarm), you are missing on a lot of photographs 

I brought back form San Diego! 

My 3 day trip was wonderful as always and as always, the ocean, air, road, 

colors make me feel like a new person. 

First 2014 finished quilt

Finished! 

I was very lucky to have the nicest customer, T., who gave me the complete freedom to create this quilt with the fabric choices and the colors that I proposed.
Thank you, T!
Her only wish was to add an owl somewhere in the design.
Such a nice idea! I love how the owl looks hovering above the main house!

It started out as an idea in a drawing based on this older and much smaller quilt, that I made last year. 
Because I liked how the brown background make all the colors pop, I decided to just go with the same color combination to make a bright and cozy quilt.
I think chocolate brown background is VERY cozy!
I used lots of different prints and batiks, like I did on the smaller quilt.

I made star and house blocks, that I have been showing here on the blog...

It grew and grew..

...then I added some ivies and leaves...

 ...and my cat was curious about it...

...and here is the full view after a bit of struggling with photographing, cropping and color adjusting...


I am so happy to know that this quilt will become a part of somebody's life, will bring warmth and coziness
as all quilts are meant.