Popsicle Cartoons

     I am completely obsessed with Terrece's Watercolors.  I sent the links to my co-workers and they couldn't stop oooing and ahhhhing.  By the end of the day I'd decided to make the popsicle painting into a quilt, and spent spare moments imagining my extensive raspberry batik stash as popsicles.   Good thing the boss was gone, or she'd wonder why I looked so happy all day.
     I spent some time on-line looking for cartoon fabric for the background.  After much searching, I found one that is called "Dysfunctional Family" which is amusing in it's own right.
     I had decided that I wanted to make this a lap-quilt size rather than an art quilt.  After all, the original is art for the wall...this will be something to snuggle under while admiring the artists amazing work.  60x70 seems to best match the original proportions. So I set about cropping and enlarging sections of the background to get a sense of scale.  [sound of screeching tires here] Whoa.  The cartoon faces will be 4" tall.  This means that the cartoon fabric is not going to work.  I'm currently thinking that the solution will be a variation of a crazy-quilt strip. I need to go buy some pastel batiks.
    And as I was dozing off to sleep last night...it occurred to me to use the speech bubbles to embroider the quilt signature info (name, date) in pale thread.
    I love it when a plan comes together.

Terrece Beesley

OK...I had an AMAZING birthday...and I have this really great applique project that I worked on today, that I plan to tell you about, plus share tutorials and patterns.

But I'm going to explode if I can't tell someone about my BIG NEWS. I just got copyright permission and the artist's blessings to make a quilt based on one of Terrece Beesley's amazing watercolor paintings.  Here's a nibble.  You'll have to go to her website and drool over her paintings.

I was originally thinking Ice Cream Melting. But Oranges and Pomegranates is the original that I would be inclined to buy.  The nibble is a tiny bit of Momsicles Popsicles (oh man...she has a print available of that too...cool!!!)
There are a couple others that are on her Facebook page.  Summer Solstice or Go Fish????  Help!  I get to make one.  Which should it be?