Art Every Day, January 14

It is hard to believe that the January Art Every Day challenge is almost half completed!

Connie K. put in two items.  The first one (http://cwkalina.blogspot.com/2014/01/day-14-cutting-linen.html) found her cutting linen for a project. The second one was a day spent playing with her stash.  She posted many photos of some fantastic embroidered ciggy silks on her blog at this entry:  http://cwkalina.blogspot.com/2014/01/day-15-art-every-day-played-with-stash.html

Genevieve T. make a lot of progress on her CQ block.  It is looking wonderful!

Susan (http://susanstudioarts.blogspot.com/2014/01/woven-message.html) played with Lutradur to make today's ATC.  What a fun experiment!

Barbara K. started working on a portrait of her daughter, working from the inspiration of an old photograph.

And me?  Well, I spent most of my day doing Medicaid paperwork on behalf of my mother, who is in a nursing home suffering from Alzheimer's Disease.   So other than some studio cleaning, I only had time to finish my Journal52 page. 

Until tomorrow...

My Crazy Quilt Challenge Piece: Mirasol

In December, one of my sewing groups decided to issue a challenge:  create a crazy quilted, 3-D fruit.  It would be due on March 28th, and needed to be life-sized. 

I love hot peppers.  Mirasol is my favorite of them, it is a gorgeous plant with peppers that stand high above the plant.  Mirasol means "look at the sun" and that is just what this pepper appears to do.

My challenge piece is finished.   It stands about 20 inches high, and has about 75 leaves, and 11 peppers.  I found an interesting chunk of firewood and drilled a hole in it for a base, since I didn't really want a "real" pot.

What do you think?

The whole Mirasol plant.

A closer view of a few leaves.

The wonderful piece of firewood.