Finally another page for Ruthanne's book

                             Finished up this page finally. Had fun working with the hexies.

Witch's Caldron

                                              Page 5 of my children's book complete!!!!
                                              In this page Eryn meets the witch who helps
                                              her find the faeries.

How to Build a Castle......... well, sort of

                                                             First, do a drawing, sort of....


 Next, embroider the windows way too big!!!
But it's a faerie tale castle, so who cares?

                        Add the stones, yes, one at a time!

 Yes, I said one at a time!

 

                                                Applique stitch around each and every stone!

Now add beads to the windows,

                 like there is someone home and the lights are on.

 

                                                  And POOF! You have a castle!

A wall hanging from the "Feathers in the Wind" collection on Etsy

https://www.etsy.com/listing/221838722/feathers-in-the-wind-quilted-wall?ref=shop_home_active_1

Feathers in the Wind Wall hanging

New shop in Etsy

 

Look for our work on Etsy: StudioSunSpirit

And in the meantime I'm trying to link our Etsy Shop to this blog. Be patient with me, please!

What have we been doing?

For over a month I have been working on Christmas crafts for our Christmas Festival here in Escalante AND costumes for the Escalante Elementary School Christmas Play. These you see above were designed for a black light dance. Pretty high tech for our little school and very well received by the audience.

In the play we had the incredible reindeer who save Christmas from disaster. The Laser guy in green, the Robot guy in silver, Mighty Moose with the huge antlers and Hyper-Speed with the silver wings. A good time was had by all!

Now I can go back to working on my book illustrations!

Hope all of you have wonderful holidays!

We had a grand time at the Grand Canyon. Show in Red Canyon did well. Now we are working on things for the Christmas Festival in Escalante on Nov. 21 and 22.

The Red Canyon Show is Up!!

Happy Summer Solstice!

 

 

 

May the sun shine brightly on you and yours.

 

Quilt Blocks for my Friend

I did some quilt blocks for my quilter friend Linda Walters who owns "Quilter's Nook" in Cedar City. I hope she likes them!

YELLOW IRIS

Yellow Iris

 

Thank you, Harriet Priska for taking my little Iris Vest to "The Intermountain Herbarium Botanical Art Show" on the campus of USU!

 



Second Page of my Book

Quote:

"We think your great, great-grandfather Moore, his older sister

and younger brother got on-board a ship at the Queenstown

Seaport here in Ireland. Without anyone finding out they made it

all the way to Boston. You see, they were too poor to pay for the trip."

 



Erin

Meet Erin, she is the curious kindergartener in the children's book I am working on. This is a detail of the first illustration, done with applique and embroider. 

Erin by Ruthanne Oliver
Sun Spirit Studio

Ruthanne's Fibre work " Gladiolas"