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Archive for the ‘Machine Quilting’ Category

California Poppies

Monday, October 24th, 2011

I added some frilly leaves and  finished the quilting on this piece. I took the photo several different places and with different lighting. I am not happy with the  camera I bought to replace the last stolen one. I need to save some money and get a better one.

Anyway I am happy with this. I did the Sue Benner satin stitch edging.

It was a beautiful fall day — sunny and brisk. I took two walks with Scooter. He loves the cooler weather with his nice warm coat.

I have spent a good part of today on the computer doing SDA work. When I finish this, I will watch DWTS and get back to database work.

Woman Working

Sunday, October 9th, 2011

I finished the seed stitching on this piece and have been working on the machine quilting. It is very slow going since I have to stop at each circle and then start again on the other side. It means stopping periodically to bury threads. I don’t normally work this way. It is tedious and may take as long to do as the handstitching.

To refresh your memory, I discharged this piece about a year ago. I used a freezer paper template and the two sides are in reverse and upside down. You can see how I did it here. I called it waking up in an alternate universe. It has taken me a year to seed stitch each of the planets and moons.

I am using a blue and yellow variegated thread to machine quilt in diagonal straight lines. I am liking the effect, but it is tedious.

So, that is pretty much what I have been up to for the last few days! I am determined to finish this.

Please come back tomorrow because I am going to be giving away something to one of my readers.

So Busy!

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

I spent a lot of time yesterday wrangling this river piece to get the quilting done. Lately most of my quilting has been rather straight forward, but I have done some crazy quilting on this thing.

Mr C and I also prepared the hanging system on all 18 quilts for the Back to Nature show. They needed to have a taught wire, stapled to the wood rod so that they can hang nicely on the gallery system at Trinity.

Today, we hung the show. I think it looks fantastic. I am so proud of High Fiber Diet for being able to pull off this show on relatively short notice. I took some quicky shots with my iPhone. Here is my aspen piece with pieces by Carol Heist and Bonnie Bucknam.

And here is a piece by Terry Grant with one by Karen Miller.

We are having the opening tomorrow night. Here is the postcard that Terry did for us.

While surfing through blogs today, I came across this dress designed by Carolina Herrera and worn by Mariska Hargitay.

Here is a detail:

I just love how shibori and other surface design details are showing up in high fashion. I could easily see a detail like this in an art quilt.

Be sure to check out the Twelve by Twelve blog over the next 12 days, we are going through the book chapter by chapter with some questions for you to answer and then you get a chance to win our book which is getting rave reviews. We are so excited.

Creative Overload

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

I am working on 3 projects at one time. I think this is a good thing. I have the two that have deadlines for Monday under control.

Today, I sandwiched the two silk fabrics that I am using in the rusty color play Twelve X Twelve piece. I can’t show what I am doing next with these!

Yesterday, Steph took me out for a belated birthday lunch and then we paid a visit to Gossamer Fiber Arts, a place I have wanted to visit for some time. I bought some lovely merino wool prefelt and this plant dyed roving.

Now, I am going to do hand-stitching on the alternate universe piece and watch the finale of Project Runway.


Dance!

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Tonight was the finale of So You Think You Can Dance so I made a fiber sketch titled, Dance! My favorite dancer did not win, but I won’t say anything else. I don’t want to spoil it if you have not watched it, yet.

I have been trying to get myself back in studio mode, but I keep having to take care of other things plus I still have the issue of running out of the white to black YLI variegated thread. I am going to run out in the morning to check another store.

I like the way it randomly variegates when I do satin stitching. So today, I used the Superior white to black to do free motion quilting on the edges of the tree to create additional markings. I hope to start adding the leaves tomorrow and move on to another piece.

Here is a photo of Scooter. He is such a good boy!! It is a little blurry, but sweet!