One more hole today–I want to do a triangle. Same method–main fabric and facing right sides together, stitch around the shape and clip the corners. Turn and press. I’m feeling very confident with this technique now and this only took a few minutes to do. Seriously, it was about 5 minutes! Decided to forge ahead… Continue reading Holes in Quilts part 3
Nope–not horrible accidents with your favorite snuggly quilt, but deliberately creating holes while you’re making a quilt. I was reminded of this technique last week and it’s been nagging at me until I did some today. If you have ever sewn clothing, it’s simply a facing, like a pocket opening. If you haven’t done that,… Continue reading Holes in Quilts part 1
There is so much satisfaction in completing any project, from housecleaning (Ugh!) to art making. It makes you smile and feel good about yourself simply to be able to say ‘Done!’ I’ve been getting a lot of little things finished–though absolutely NO housework!–so I’m feeling really good. Over the weekend I did a book signing… Continue reading Love small projects!
Sometimes it helps to take a look back at what you have actually done. I hung my latest Weekly Special pieces all together and felt pretty good about what I had finished. Plus this little thread sketch If you have been reading my blog, you’ve seen these already, but it makes me feel that I… Continue reading Taking a look
DONE! I love this little circle the best! And DONE! I ended up using the orange beads, rather than any of the those greens. It feels so good to have a couple of things finished!
The one piece that I was sure of was the circles with the black stitching. Black beads were going to be perfect. All they did was make the piece look dead and dull. There is more than enough black in this piece already. I need to find a different color of bead to add a… Continue reading Try again…
Didn’t have much time today so I grabbed the first scraps I could find. It happened to be 6 strips, gold, that were about 11″ long. I joined them and stacked them with a piece of painted fabric that had some gold paint on it. Sliced through the pieces, rearranged strips and ended up with… Continue reading Quick time
Yes, I thought I was done with that pile of scraps I left you with, but nooooooooo! There was enough fabric left to make at least one more block and part of the Weekly Special mission is to use up as much of the scrap pile as possible. Thus, one more block! I started with… Continue reading The last turquoise block….really!
Plain blue background, made to be nothing more than the support for…..something. But what? I think it seems to be calling for paint! So, I spent more than a few happy moments going through my stencils and stamps and screens. And quite a few more moments deciding on paint colors. Always a good time–and then… Continue reading Blue background and paint
Started with a pile of scraps today because I wanted something in blue. The first thing I made was a simple strip set background–and I used up all seven royal blue strips that I found! Success! Probably needs some paint on it, right? The rest of the pile had a slight bit more variety, with… Continue reading Scrap pile
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