Drink can embossing and die cutting

 
 Embossed the  inside of a drink can ,then  die cut a heart from the outside of the can

Metal Quilt inspired by the Beatles

Still Crazy and Nuts About Him After All These Years!

The Beatles song that inspired this quilt is "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" for a Fast Friday challenge. The quilt background is a crazy patch. The hands also represent a lifetime partnership.

Female hand: silver nuts .Male hand: gold washers.

The nuts and washers were hand sewn and the quilt is machine quilted.

Designed in Make the Cut software, cut with my digital cutter.

It has a 6” center and is 14” framed.

Unique bus stops

Loved the unique bus stops with glass and metal in Philly! And there were some great stained glass windows, too.    

The Biker

The Biker is created using the principles of Closure and Proximity of the Gestalt Theory of visual perception . The biker’s head and the bike's wheels are separate from the body made of lockwashers and yet is perceived as a group due to proximity.

 Closure occurs when an object is incomplete or a space is not completely enclosed. If enough of the shape is indicated, people perceive the whole by filling in the missing information. Proximity occurs when elements are placed close together and are perceived as a group. The Fast Friday challenge was to use the Gestalt Theory that holds that “the whole is other than the sum of its parts”.

 Materials: lockwashers and washers on cotton fabric