I’ve had my nose to the grindstone the last couple of days trying to make some progress on my vase. I don’t think my time estimates are going to be quite accurate. I tell myself it’s because I work on it in small chunks of time so don’t get into the flow but that [...]
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Although they aren’t diamonds this bit of mini patchwork immediately brings the bavarian flag to mind. This is one of the first bits of fabric for my vase. We are supposed to estimate the costs for the object. The material cost are quite low for my vase but the production costs are going [...] Although I’ve not had time in the last month to be doing anything for my coursework I’ve not been idle. I’ve been doing a lot of sampling in my head as to how to go about making my vase. Since having it all in my head is not going to get me any brownie [...] I am currently taking time out from doing my C&G course to take a class at Quilt University on Fabric Portraits. I’m taking my C&G at DesignMatters. Both are distance learning courses. Both courses are completely online. I never meet my tutor face to face and they never get to see my work in [...] I wasn’t feeling up to doing much more than I’ve shown so far on my fabric portrait, as I had a cold over the weekend. I did have the energy to make mock ups of my ideas for making connections. This was another activity in the C&G course. It wasn’t that easy to come [...] I have been playing around with ideas for my container. It will be my first assessment piece for the C&Gs course. I’m not going to say too much about it now. It’s still very much on the drawing board and anyway I don’t want to give the game away Here are some photos of [...] I wanted to share this image that Marie my tutor sent me today of some more manipulation of my churn dash quilt block. I really like what she has done and her use of the turquoise as a contrast colour. Here’s what she said: “Looking at your tiled version made me think of something [...] Well the next little project is completed. Either I’m getting settled into the routine of this course now or the exercises are getting easier, but I seem to be zipping through Module 5. This activity involved making templates, which wasn’t too arduous and then sewing the block. You could choose to sew either [...] The next exercise was to make our own pattern for foundation piecing based on an architectural theme. I spent a long time choosing an image. It is actually not that easy to find one that can be easily interpreted as foundation piecing. The first problem was with curved lines – tricky to do as [...] Made a little house using foundation piecing. I’ve made one small quilt in the past using the foundation piecing method. It was a kit that I bought from a quilt shop. It was about the second or third quilt I ever made. The kit supplied a paper foundation and I found it a real [...] |
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