2014 Haleiwa Art Festival

Come out to the

Hale`iwa Arts Festival 17th Annual Summer Art Fest
in historic Hale'iwa Town
www.HaleiwaArtsFestival.org

July 19 and 20, 2014   

Many Juried Visual Artists, Musicians, Singers, Dancers, Cultural History Tours, Student Art, Art Demonstrations, Fabulous Food Vendors, and Children's Art Activities will all be featured. 

 Admission is FREE.

Celebrate the arts at the

Hale`iwa Beach Park

Saturday July 19  10 am to 6 pm 

Sunday July 20  10 am to 5 pm

If you arrive early Saturday morning , you will be treated to 
bagpipers strolling through the grounds!

my booth  is  #115 

near the water, first aid, and info tents

at the front of the festival,

where we are very colorful !

aloha, Sonja

hip to be square

While I painting some fabrics this weekend, I was thinking about what the creative process, my process, might look like from the outside, in slow motion. I say slow because I am slow. I say I make slow art because it goes that way, meandering like a cat unable to walk a straight line and I can't hurry creative process, that much I've learned. And  I don't want to hurry the  process. I so enjoy being in  the "zone " I forget to eat occasionally and am often reminded by rumblings from my gut.  I enjoy ALL the processes very much, the painting, some planning, cutting, sewing, adding, subtracting, quilting and on and on. so many choices to be made along the way and I can't make them far ahead but only until the choice just before has been put into action.  then you can, of course have a change of heart  if an idea sprouts up .

this poured out box of scraps of many colors await a new life

 



random joined pieces become strips or squares.

I add on  till I get 4 1/2'' squares after trimmng.

like  these   cuties

then I cut 1 1/2" strips of my hand painted fabric and same size of a batik I like and sew them side by side and

sew a unit to all four sides of inner square.

 suppose I could call this a log cabin crumb I guess.
 I just call it fun as I don't like to over plan and once I get a rhythm,
 I'm  humming  now.

 Poof! another Saturday melts into a possible quilt top and scraps dwindle a little bit.

 

I have 16 blocks done so far  and  placed on the flannel covered stretcher bars.

I  just  might  make  more blocks.
(will post photo of quilted  up quilt in later post)

 

 or perhaps, I will take a nap.

Does your cat (or pup) assistant snore?
 Noodles does!