Sky according to Lucy

"the Sky", said Lucy "is full o diamonds...."

Sky is the February theme for the atc trade.that is a broad topic of color

 to choose from!

how about all o them.

i must have a zillion sunset colored photos and dozens of painted one in postcards form. so where did my art part brain wander to this time?

 

 

To a song. again.

once again a piece of music, a song with the word Sky in it caught my attention.

pick me pick me  it said ,so the designing began.

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was my inspiration.

 

i painted on a webbed recycled cloth with inks and used it to mono print
 the cotton fabric.

you can see it in the upper left corner of photo above.
 

here is close up of the first print. i added more inks as needed

for the ones that followed.

 

 

once again i quilted free-motion with a metallic thread in a pale gold.

the above photo shows front and back quilted in the sun and spirals of my imagination.

much to my delight the threads never broke on making 9 cards and i did not even change to a metallic needle. i just used my old dull one that had recently sewn on paper. i close up the  envelopes i make  or old calendar pages with a nice zig-zag stitch

 in colorful threads.

perhaps my singing of  "tangerine trees and marmalade skies"  made for

 good vibrations!

just in case you may have forgotten the words, this song is on the

 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album by the Beatles.

 

i hand stitched some diamond colored tiny glass beads all around the edges, usually one at a time using a quilitng needle. i know i know, this takes up a bit of time but i enjoy taking some hand work out on the deck where i can enjoy

 the clouds loafing along in the sky.

i call this trade             Sky according to Lucy.

(once upon a time long ago i had a mare by the name of Sky.)

 

the little twirled painted coffee filters above will dry into a sort of tie dye pattern.

when they are dry i iron them flat again and wrap my art cards in them to

help protect the art in transit.

 

here is some of the paper i  used in  this trade.

 

SO,what music has inspired you lately?

Oh, if you click on sunset top photo,
can you see the cat in the foreground?

 

hearts of fabric

Do you have any idea  of HOW many songs have the word 
 Heart
 

 

 in them ? mucho plenty!!
 

 

i made a batch of  valentine post cards  last week to trade this month that started with painting a heart on cloth 4 by 6 inches .quickly. loose.
 the backgrounds colors were watercolory in lights.
 i layered paintings up for some simple quilting on "Bernadette".

added a  bit of glimmer and shading and i was done .
While i  was making these cards to mail,

 

i  thought of as many titles as i could sing a few bars of before

 i googled a list.more than i recalled  but none the less a fun mental jog.

Every beat of my heart-Rod Stewart
Heart of gold-Neil Young
Piece of my heart-Janis Joplin
Young at heart-Frank Sinatra

those are just a few i reviewed in my mind  and sang as i painted and sewed.

and who doesn't love the sight of  a cat in the sink?
Noodles pauses in a Sunbeam of  light at his morning drink in the sink.

 

 

May all hearts be happy and well,

Sonja