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Archive for July, 2012

Persephone and Pomegranates

Thursday, July 12th, 2012

Today is the reveal for the Twelve by 12/20 mythology challenge. To read the story of the myth, please go to the Twelve blog.

I made this piece with batiks as I have the others in this series. I love working with them and mixing them up in a design. This time, I did all the quilting with black thread. When I first made this, I was not going to put a figure in it. I really do not like the human figure used in quilts. I don’t know why and don’t flame me!!

So, I had an idea of how I could add Persephone to this and not have to worry too much about creating a body. I made this drawing.

I then scanned it and printed it on silk organza. I carefully cut it and fused it to the quilt and then stitched it with black thread and added a pomegranate.

Here are a couple of details:

I have had a busy and productive day, getting ready for the STASH meeting today and finishing my water piece. Here is Wednesday’s 3 x 3.

 

Wordless Wednesday (a little late)

Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

Re-Zoom Zoom

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

After a good night’s sleep and some meds, I felt much better and was zooming around the studio once again.

I had a sudden and enlightened idea about a finishing touch for my myth piece for the Twelve by Twelve reveal on Thursday. I spent the morning working that out. It meant doing a drawing and printing on organza and stitching it to the otherwise finished piece. I am really happy with it. Check back on Thursday for a look at what I did.

I also sewed two sleeves for the air and fire pieces and started getting the finishing touches done on them.

I also painted a big piece of canvas with gesso for a fun project with my STASH group on Thursday. Tomorrow, I have to get some things cleaned up and do some prep work for the lunch that I am preparing for them.

Last night when I went to bed, I felt really doubtful about where I was going with the deep sea piece. In the light of day, it didn’t look that bad and so throughout the day, I worked on it bit by bit. Tonight, I got it fused together, and I hope to do some quilting on it tomorrow. I really love the colors in this.

I found this great fabric for the back.

Mia gets home tomorrow from her two week adventure in the wilderness. We can’t wait to see her and hear all about the other kids and the adventures that she had.

Quick Check-in

Monday, July 9th, 2012

My zoom zoom pace had come to a halt. I have had a raging sinus headache all day and have not accomplished much. I have been futzing around with the water fabrics and have left it like this. The kelp fabric was not working.

Here is today’s uninspired 3 x 3.

And now, I am taking anĀ  Aleve and I am off to bed. I can barely hold my head up tonight.

Zoom Zoom

Sunday, July 8th, 2012

This is a fairly large piece of cotton on which I got 5 prints from one of my large screens. I filled in the rest with cobalt blue so that I could use it in the deep sea piece. The chartreuse will be used, too. I will be cutting this up to reassemble as a kelp garden, I think.

I did a facing on the air/thermal piece and looked at it upside down and thought maybe I should orient it that way.

What do you think?

Here is today’s 3 x 3.