Random acts of creativity

It seems I'm working on a little bit of everything this week which means that it's a very happy week with no complaints.
I was going to add the second shelf to the kiln yesterday to fire it but, fortunately I woke up yesterday morning with the clear realization that my plan would not work. The thermostat for the kiln would have been between the shelves and that would have screwed up the temperature for both shelves. Since I had the one shelf already loaded I ran a tack fuse cycle yesterday and hopefully can do the full fuse cycle this weekend.

Yesterday was dyeing day and I decided that it's been too long since I did shibori. It's a time intensive process but you can't beat the results.

I do 6 batches of shibori dye, 2 at a time and each batch takes about an hour. So while the dyes were working I ted up the last 7 of the beach towels that I'm dyeing for my family beach vacation. Tyeing it the tedious part so now I can get on to the fun...after I tie up some baby clothes and Tshirts. There's a tie dye session coming up really soon!

My goal for today is to get the king size Rainbow quilt loaded and basted. I'll be centering this on a quilt back so it's going to take some time and patience to get it loaded. I ordered the batting last Wednesday from Amazon and was told that I'd have if by Saturday. It didn't ship until Saturday and finally arrived Tuesday. I stretched it out on FloMo yesterday to let the batting relax a bit. I'm anxious to get this think done.

On a side note, it's taken me 45 minute to write the short post. There's all kinds of activity on the pond this morning and I've mostly been counting the turtles on "Turtle Beach" and watching a Heron hunt. The turtles have a special spot where they like to soak in the sun and the Heron has been particularly entertaining this morning. I even saw it catch a fish.

Before basting the quilt I'm heading out to hang out with a couple of friends this afternoon and I'll be taking my applique to work on a bit.