Emerging artist

I am applying for a grant from a foundation that helps emerging artists to grow. A friend called and said she heard about this foundation and all she could think about was calling me. I had to provide pictures of work samples, including works in progress. This is my work in progress right now. It's a painting on muslin that will be a quilt as soon as I quilt it.

I put together the entire grant application in less than a week, as the deadline is very near and I'm leaving town on Wednesday. It will be in the mail Monday. If awarded a grant I will be able to finally take art classes! I have so wanted to learn the 'right' way to do things for so long! I may not actually do it the right way, but at least I'll know what I've been missing all this time. I just know this would help me develop as an artist.

I learned during the past week the value of having great friends. I sent out a group email to several people to ask for a reference letter. I only needed one or two, so that would allow most of them to pass if they were too busy. I got 2 excellent letters of reference. What was so great was most of them replied and gave me encouragement and edification. I went back to those emails several times as I got bogged down and discouraged. I even used some of their words in my resume and proposal statement. Even when they were professing not being able to help, they were helping more than ever! I thank God daily for being surrounded by beautiful friends.

Assembly line fabric kits

I have started making kits available for my quilt classes. I don't make that much profit from them, but it makes classes much, much more pleasant. I don't worry about students not having read the supplies list correctly and bringing the wrong thing, or worse, omitting important items.
These days I have several upcoming classes and one retreat where I'll do lots of classes in a short time. For the time being I am done with elephants, and moving on to sunset birds and shadowy leaves. I am knee deep in kits!
Today I went to Joann to use coupons on batting and kona cotton. I like to go alone. I wander several times through each department, thinking of different projects.