The Polka Dot Debutante

Today the knit group met at Abundant Yarns in southeast. It's a beautiful store with an in-house cafe called the Busy Bee that serves wonderful soups and great sandwiches.

Anyway, most of the gang was there today working on scarves, socks, an afghan and a sweater. It was a really fun day with lots of discussion about activities that are good prompts for unleashing your creativity. Using a line from a book, a song, a photograph, keeping a journal and then setting yourself a specific goal and time frame. Sounded like a lot of fun. Janet is leaving this weekend for her big taping in Dallas and this is a shout out to her. We all know you'll be great!

Rick and I went to the Mary Lou Zeek Gallery on State Street in Salem to see this great show called "Shelters." It is a fundraising show that benefits the Salem Outreach Shelter. I just love the concept. Each of the 100 participating artists received a 5 x 8 inch piece of cardboard through the mail and had two months to create something with it around the theme shelters and then return it to the gallery. Lots of great mixed media pieces, my favorite! Some very simple, Some very elaborate. It was a fun show and a great gallery. The owner carries some of my favorite ceramic and mixed media artists that I've seen in the Portland area.

I've been slowly working on this quilt top and am happy with all the colors and arrangement. My problem is with the those white triangles. I wanted to piece them with the focus fabric but you don't see them because the focus fabric is so busy. Now I've tried them with one of the accent fabrics that is pretty neutral and am liking it alot better. You can see in the picture the comparison of the two pieced triangles. Of course I'll have to go out and search for that neutral fabric because I only have a small piece left. Isn't that always the way it works! I'm still loving the quilt though so it will get done.