New Prayer Flags

This week I added new prayer flags to my garden.

This one is for my daughter-in-law for Mother's Day. It will replace the one I made when she became a widow three years ago. Her daughters are now teenagers. One has her driver's permit and the other one will be entering high school in the fall. I will send her a card with a photo of the flag along with my wishes for courage and wisdom as she prepares the girls to leave the nest. (Hope she doesn't have time to read my blog before Mother's Day!)

The text and photo were printed on muslin with my Epson WF-3520. I like the DurBrite ink for fabric because it is waterproof. The birds are fabric that was ironed to Pellon Wonder-Under and cut with the Silhouette Portrait. After they were cut, they were ironed to the flag.

This was made for a young lady as she was recently Confirmed. She was a delight in my 4 & 5 year old Sunday School class several years ago. The text is from her Faith Statement. I sent her a card with a photo of the flag and a personal note.

The photo is one I took years ago. It was printed on Muslin. The text was printed on Transfer Artist Paper; I had to do the text twice as I forgot to flip the image before printing!

This was made for a former Sunday School student for his recent Confirmation. He is an avid outdoors man. The text is from his Faith Statement. A card with the photo and a personal note was sent to let the young man know a prayer flag is hanging in my garden.

 

If you are interested, you can learn about the Prayer Flag Project by visiting the web site http://theprayerflagproject.blogspot.com/ You can see more of the prayer flags hanging in my garden by clicking here.

What’s going on in The Underground?

Actually not a whole lot. HR has made some more shelves for the studio slatwall. Rain is forecast for Saturday which will keep him off the bike and maybe in his shop hopefully completing the project.

I am spending a lot of time at Ephemera Paducah, helping Kristin prepare for an exciting workshop with Pam Carriker and Mary Beth Shaw. They will be presenting the The Pam &Mary Beth Art Journal Road Show at Ephemera this weekend. Needless to say I am so excited to be part of this!

Next week is Quilt Week in Paducah. Over 30,000 quilters from every continent in the world will visit our little city for the 31^st Annual AQS. 

As part of quilt week, I was looking forward to a Lesley Riley workshop at Ephemera Paducah, but it was cancelled. Using her book, Create with Transfer Artist Paper, Kristin and I have been experimenting so we can have demonstrations for the quilters.

I did find time this week to make a cell phone sleeve. This was kind of a necessity as HR gets annoyed when I don’t have my phone with me when he calls. And we know it is important to keep HR happy, at least until I have enough shelves for my slatwall! 

If you are in Paducah for the Quilt Show, I hope you will stop by Ephemera Paducah and say hello!