It's a bird... it's a plane...

It's Workbook Wednesday....

and I have been trying to expand my horizons....

From the Urban Dictionary......

1. expand my horizon

New Ideas...open to many different options and ideas. Being free.

Today I would like to expand my horizons and go sky diving.

(But I promise NO sky diving.... I am afraid of heights!!!!)

So...

I finally dove(!) right into the exercises from chapter 5 and had loads of fun...

I even took the supplies out of their packages (okay, so I live dangerously)!!!!

and they were dyeing to be used (haha!)

I tried my hands at hand painting......   

Faster than a speeding free motion quilter!!!!

took a stab at using foil (with glue and with fusible web)...

Able to leap tall fabric bolts in a single bound!!!!

Et voila!!!!

More powerful than an iron!!!

it's...

Supermanquilter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I feel like I can do almost anything now!)

I did keep the quilting lines simple, following the line of color movement

and embellished the edge with some long, fuzzy fiber.

This fabric painting thing is quite addicting...

so I painted a few more small pieces that I can use in future exercises...

but I avoided exercise 2.... representational painting.
Maybe next week (more expanding to do!).

Remember this sketch?

and the pieces that I started last week?

Well, it has transformed into a cactus!!!!

Now the sky is the limit!!!!!!

This expanding my horizons is tiring... I need a nap now!