The last two weekends I’ve been working on the piecing of the hexagon spirals. The first task was to produce a full sized cartoon on brown parcel paper. Since the sketches were 30 cm square, I decided the easiest was to scale up to a 30 inch square. No complicated maths to do then. I [...]
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We had more snow overnight on Saturday and woke to white again on Sunday – not that we had many other colours beforehand except grey and a bit of vegetation finally peeking out. A good day to stay home and get on with my final assessment piece. I pulled all my fabric out onto the [...] We are holed up here in snow so I have some unexpected time on my hands. But not that much since we spend a good few hours each day shovelling snow away, so that we may be able to get out before next Easter. I had some more feedback from Marie suggesting that maybe my black [...] After feedback from Marie I have decided to go with the idea of spirals and colours fading to black and white. When I saw the sketches up on the computer screen, even before any comments from Marie, my instinct was to go with the spirals. As Marie pointed out – the metamorphosis ideas, which were [...] I’ve been doing some design sketches and experimenting with ideas for my final assessment piece for my C&Gs. Marie, my tutor, had this to say about Reflections This is the standard of work you have been aiming for, now you have reached a level that you can build on to become the practitioner you hoped that [...] I sewed the quilt label onto the back of the quilt in the afternoon of New Year’s Eve as the final task to completion. So I did complete it in 2009. It wasn’t particularly my goal to finish in the old year, but it was a nice way to close the quilting year for me. Looking [...] I have been off work since Monday. The weather has been pretty foul. Lots of snow and then the temperatures rose and we had rain on freezing ground. We braved it out on Tuesday and did all the shopping for Christmas. Since then I have had time to work on my reflections quilt. I was [...] At the weekend I finished the quilt top for my wall hanging assessment. The brown fabric works fine – enough contrast and quite how I imagined it. I am currently pondering how to do the quilting. As my C&G tutor Marie said: it would be great to link the quilting design with the initial inspiration [...] I am about half way done on the quilt top for my nature theme. I have done all the blue now and will be moving on to the yellow. I am making progress even if it is quite time consuming – each piece having to be cut individually. It takes me between 45-60 minutes to [...] Having said that I was going to make a start on the quilt top I had to get into the studio at the weekend. It was raining and cold and generally a miserable autumn day so there was not much incentive for putting one’s nose outside the door. In fact I don’t think I did [...] |
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