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I have been playing with paint and discharge paste on quilted surfaces. It has been quite fun and gave me a reason to practise my machine quilting. I made four small samples of about 8 inches square and did some fairly dense machine quilting, practising breathing at the same time. It’s true what they say [...] Today I made a couple of small samples showing two different decorative edge treatments. I used 2 4 inch blocks that I had left over from another project. The beaded edge is made by attaching the binding to the back of the quilt and then hand sewing down onto the front. A seed bead is added [...] I made a quick proof of concept for my folding purse in fabric. It was worth doing because I now know where the dangers lie and where I need to be most accurate with my cutting and sewing. I just did some quick machine stitching where the hand stitching will go. I am now confident that [...] Here’s a photo of how I get my needlepoint to be as good as square again. There are no before pictures – I didn’t think of it until now! But here’s one from last February when I started it It got even worse as things proceeded. This is actually the second time it was stretched [...] 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 [...] 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 points towards [...] I’ve enrolled in a course at Quilt University on fabric portraits. It’s given by Marilyn Belford, who has made many award-winning fabric portraits. I’m going to make a fabric portrait of my Dad from this photo. To make a pattern for the quilt, I need to take a photograph of the subject and posterize it. After [...] Just knocked off another of the activities for the current module. It wasn’t a very demanding exercise. I just had to insert a set of mitred triangles into a four patch block. I didn’t press the final seam open as per instructions though. I used Myrna’s method for pressing a four patch in a circle. She may [...] Well actually just by me. I’m referring to my activities this week for the C&G course, in other circles known as the chenille technique. I did a bit of reading up on the web beforehand as I had a vague feeling of some differences between the description in the class notes and what I had previously [...] Yesterday evening we installed my new sewing table in my studio. It has been a long process getting the remains of the oil off the table top. It was getting rolled into sticky messes by the buffing pads and I was getting sick of washing out 6 pads after each new attempt at polishing. So yesterday [...] |
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