The Hoffman Challenge project is finished! That's what I've been doing these last days (weeks) - working on my entry. The HC is an annual quilting/sewing challenge, using a particular fabric as a part of the final work. It's my summer art 'assignment' for myself.

As I worked, I tried to incorporate Flickr into my process. A few things I learned quickly - to resize the pics so as not to use up all my space on just a few shots; and resizing pics takes an extra step (when time is valuable.) You might wonder why I take pics during the process - and it's not just documenting the process. The pics help get a perspective or distance in viewing the 'whole' in a way that one cannot do by hanging it up and looking at it from across the room. Before digital photography was so easy, I used a peep hole - you know - to peep thru a door to the other side. You peep thru it backwards, getting a huge distance to evaluate the composition of an artwork.

Here are more pics of my work on Flickr.

Tomorrow 8:00 a.m. will find my husband and me in a van headed to New Orleans with 4 kids from our church youth group. We will meet up with 36,994 other kids and assorted adults for the ELCA's National Youth Gathering. Yikes!!! We will return next Tues. At that point, I plan to live with my laptop to complete this class.