WIP It! WIP It Good!

I'm working on a number of things all at once-what's new about that, you ask-and I realized at least one of them had steps in progress and that it might be interesting to follow my own steps.

I started with sketches I worked on during my days at Dish that were exercises in drawing with a continuous line. Again this is so I can later use it on a quilt and I'll have worked out how I need to "draw" with the sewing machine. I have an autumn themed quilt top that I made a couple of years ago with dubious skill but that gives me permission to try more adventurous things in quilting it.  I have an idea in mind that is way out of my league at this point but here's how to get there.  Break it down into bite sized lessons and apply them when I'm better at them. Back to the sketches:

I started with this daffodil that will have a future elsewhere.  Then I went for dandilions:

(<--new friend found living in sewing room, now evicted) 

which led me to thinking about milkweeds which release fluffy things similar to dandilions but which are more autumnal than either daffodils or dandilions.

 I did a layout sketch for a general idea for the aforementioned quilt and then I made a small quilt sandwich with muslin and my favorite cotton batting and sewed just the milkweed, pods and floaty fluffy parts all with one line:

Now I want to attack the little sandwich with paintstiks and/or inks.  And we're off!! Let more fun begin!! Oh, and don't forget to feed the fish before you go!! Scroll down and they're there!