Busy, busy, busy

This week has been and will continue to be busy with all things fabric related.
Monday, I finished my Shvat piece (photo to follow). In the end, I didn't embroider any biblical quote, not that I didn't try, but it just didn't look right. I had marked the fabric with the purple air dissolving pen and some markings remained. I tried to bleach pen them out. Now I have little yellow smudges on the white background sky. Oh well. I appliqued wisps of clouds to try various effects. Anyways, I bound the piece and will hold onto to, either to make into a larger piece later or just leave as is.
Tuesday evening was my York Heritage Guild meeting. The speaker, Judy Morningstar's, work was amazing and her talk very uplifting. She uses the tiniest of scraps of the same colour, piecing them together, to make a larger fabric. It's called "poverty piecing". This could fulfill one's need to piece and the waste not edict. She also talked about finishing quilts with facing instead of binding. Unfortunately, I did not think to ask about how it is done. Maybe I'll email her.
While at the meeting, I received a flyer for one of the quilt shops which is selling fat quarters for $1.25 for 10 ($1.00 for 25!). So Menachem picked me up after work and we went there. The choices were nothing to write home about. I barely managed to find 10 and some of those were multiples. But I did find a nice fabric to put backings and bindings on my fibre art pieces, so it wasn't a total loss.
Then in the evening, I had the Pomegranate Guild meeting. The speaker does needle lace, some of it based on photographs of family members. The cool thing was the way she displays it. She suspends the pieces from the ceiling and lights them so their shadows project on the wall. Don't know if I'll try needle lace any time soon, but I've filed away the information.
Saturday, weather permitting, I'm joining some other women from the IJQ list on a shopping and quilt show field trip in Hamilton-Burlington. Fabricland is having a 50% off sale and I want to assess the stuff I have and see what else I need in order to complete/start projects.
And then Sunday, the fibre arts group is meeting at my house. I want to try to finish the backing and bindings this evening.
So the creative juices are still flowing.