Detail from "Rain Dance," an original quilt by Sherrie Spangler

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Summer Solstice Goddess

"Solstice Goddess" by Sherrie Spangler
The sun came through for today's
SUMMER SOLSTICE!

I took my beads out on the front porch -- finally able to get some sun on my winter legs -- and put the finishing touches on a little Summer Solstice Goddess quilt. It's tiny, only 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. I used scraps of my hand-painted fabric, snippets of lame and tulle, couched black YLI Candlelight thread to outline the shapes, and beads.

My potted back-deck daisy turned its face to the sun.
(Click to enlarge photo and see a spider.)

And the water sure looked different today than over the weekend. Above is the blue Wollochet Bay under a blue sky for the first day of summer. Below is a gray Henderson Bay under a very gray sky just three days ago.

If you click here, you can read last year's Summer Solstice blog, which shows a lot of my summery quilts.
Have a colorful solstice!

4 comments:

Robbie said...

Your Solstice Goddess is great!! She does remind you of summer!!

The Idaho Beauty said...

Here too! And I even shaved my legs this morning in anticipation of baring them...so scary. vbg

Julaine said...

She is SO you, Sherrie! - beautiful...maybe she can keep your skies blue...

Ladybug said...

What an itty bitty spider! As to the contrasting skies - that'd be the Pacific NW summer all right.