Displacing Fear With Hope

 

 Made for Project Quilting 14.6 – Conquer a Fear

 The biggest fear in my life is being stuck indefinitely in grief's tumultuous journey.

 I am working on letting go some of my sadness, taking my time in doing the things that give me comfort, and living my life alone in my present reality.

 The sunrise and sunshine give me hope on each new day.

 8x8

Safety Concerns Mobile

 

 Project Quilting 14.5 challenge, Sew NOT A SQUARE.

 The house mobile includes rolled eyes, a teardrop and question marks for the residents of East Palestine, Ohio who were exposed to the toxic chemicals from the train derailment. Some contaminated waste was transported  locally to Michigan and the question marks make me wonder if they are truly non hazardous and safe.

 Bubble wrapped day of the dead cardstock question mark (for extra protection), textured wallpaper question mark, recycled red foil tear drop, wallpaper and cotton rolled eyes, beads, sequins, clear elastic thread, hand embroidery, machine quilting

 8”x15”

Book Inspired Quilt

The Project Quilting 14.4  challenge was to make a quilt inspired by a book.

This quilt was inspired by an eye opening book by Dr Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA vaccines Lies My Government Told Me.

The ouch beaded bookmark has a 4 leaf clover that implies good luck to me

Painted blue dryer sheet clouds, textured wallpaper pen nib, hand embroidered eye, recycled silver aluminum paper represents droplets and tears. The red teardrop represents those who had vaccine adverse reactions and injuries including me. 

Lace,  machine applique keyhole, machine embroidery , machine quilting

Make It Count!

The challenge title, 54 40 and Fight inspired me to use the basic shapes in the quilt block but with different numbers for my postcard as a reminder to savor each moment. There are 86,400 seconds, 1440 minutes, and 24 hours in each day and we should Choose Joy to make each one count.  

Materials: beads, white dryer sheets and white on white cotton fabric

 Techniques: painted blue dryer sheets and white on white fabric , hand embroidery, machine embroidery, machine quilting

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Feed Me First...

Enjoyed making this fun postcard for a pink challenge that brings back fond memories of feeding my 3 young grandbabies who were very close in age and were hungry at the same time.  As they got older, milk bottles have been replaced by donuts, their favorite new treats.

I also challenged myself to use recycled materials. The background is  made from a white dryer sheet that was colored pink.  A pink bubble wrap envelope was reused as the border and the wrench handle.  The silver wrenches are from an aluminum foil circle from packaging. Embroidery floss scraps make up the nest. A rubber toy donut was sliced in half horizontally and finally added beads for the donut sprinkles to attach to the fabric postcard.

https://kimlapacek.com/2023/01/14-2-pink-tint-challenge-2-of-project-quilting-season-14.html

Hand embroidery weekly challenge

Learning new hand embroidery stitches each week this year with  the TAST Facebook group. Hope to learn and improve with each week. Started with a prequilted pillowcase to have a sturdy base and focus on the stitches.

Gratitude Box

Made a box for my mom. Wrote small notes of gratitude and appreciation of why she means so much to me, put them in a small giftbag and then in the box. She reads one note each day..a great way to start each day this month...

Still Wish You Were Here!

 

Still Wish You Were Here!

 Life today is a huge adjustment from being a couple for 4 decades to being all alone.  Not a single day goes by that I don't miss you, your cheerful smile and the sound of your awesome laughter...

My grief postcard to my better half is my interpretation of the Project Quilting Season14.1  Theme :“one”  

 

 

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Countdown to Christmas/ Advent Calender

Embellished this Countdown to Christmas with 3 simple surprises for my 3 grandkids .

Each day they can peek in the cubby for fun treats.

 I filled each cubby with  stickers, cat pins, stamps, ornaments and small treasures.

Hope they look forward to it daily enjoy them!

Autumn Tornado

"Autumn Tornado " has been selected as for the SAQA Global Exhibition Primal Forces: Wind exhibition. I made this quilt for my grandson who is fascinated by Tornadoes. The yarn was hand couched and has a lot of beads. The leaves were  cut out of a sheer ribbon using a heat tool. Love the texture in the quilt. 29x21"

Memorial ornaments

Ornaments made with his own clothes and buttons, designed in software, printed on fabric, applique, machine embroidery

Smile!

 

My quilt, Keys To The Nation in the Inspired By the Nation's Capital by Donna DeSoto

 

Keys To The Nation

The Washington DC skyline was combined with a key in Make The Cut software. It was cut out by an electronic cutter and both the positive and negative designs were appliqued in the quilt. The positives and negatives that happen in DC affects the rest of the nation. The USA map has Zentangle designs with Pigma pens

 

Materials: Buttons, cottons, net, sheers, ribbons, trims

This is one of 103 quilts, 24" square, in Donna Marcinkowski DeSoto's newest book, "Inspired by the Nation's Capital" published by Schiffer  will be available everywhere books are sold on September 27.

Embossed paper and fabric postcard

Lemon juice on fabric

Another sunset fabric postcard

Embossed sunset

Maple Leaf

Fall leaves

Cupid

Positive Negative Cupid

Another velvet embossed rose

Embossed fabric with stamps

Embossed Rayon Velvet with a  misted stamp and iron, cut a heart and machine embroidered and the fabric postcards

Silhouette cityscape

Another fruit postcard

Fruit postcards continued

Fruit Fabric Postcard swap

Embossed and, inked plain tan fabric to create woodgrain fabric. Used a transparancy for the bottle glass and cut fabric fruit

Embossed and inked fabric

Embossed and inked a plain tan fabric for a background for a fruit theme postcard swap. However, my emphasis seems to be more on dessert with a little fruit on top!

Emboss on denim and wiremesh

Emboss and ink

Embossed and inked fabric background, positive and negative images for a food theme postcard swap

Sewing basket

Embossed fabric background, foil thread and needle

Silhouette fabric postcard

Added an aluminum can sun to a silhouette fabric postcard

Embossed/ debossed foil and fabric Beetle

 Debossed foil fireworks,

 fabric VW Beetle with opalescent windows at top.

embossed foil beetle at bottom. 

Embossed and sanded black Aluminum

Embossed and sanded black Aluminum postcard. The roof is the back of the black aluminum.

Embossed Aluminum lockwashers fabric postcard

Another embossed and sewn aluminum can

Embossed another aluminum can, sewed it to peltex for a fabric postcard and added the ballerina to the center

Embossed aluminum can and embossed synthetic on peltex sprayed with blue ink postcard

Embossing an Aluminum can

Cut and embossed an Aluminum can.Will sew it in a postcard tomorrow

Embossed wallpaper and spray ink

Debossed vs Embossed Peltex

Debossed synthetic on left. Embossed Peltex and metallic gilding polish on the right