This C&G course is having one positive effect at least. It is forcing me to try out things that I’ve just collected articles on in the past: see my cathedral windows piece. I even paid to do a course at QU on crazy patchwork and then never got started. It’s the only class where [...]
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Secret Garden patchwork is a variation on the Cathedral Windows pattern. It wasn’t one I’d heard of before taking this C&G course. The only reason for the name that I can think of is that the finished effect looks like four petalled flowers. This piece has also been made in the evenings in [...] I’ve been making holes in my fingers again this weekend while making my first attempt at sashiko quilting. It is a simplified version of the fan pattern. I didn’t have enough blue fabric that was fairly loosely woven so I used green instead. As I couldn’t find a local shop to buy the [...] I’ve been making pin cushions of my finger tips this weekend doing some hand quilting. The tip of the index finger of my left hand looks like raw meat I’m not a very accomplished hand quilter and I can’t say that I really enjoy it. I always seem to get into a fight with [...] As the appliqué was hand sewing I made a start on it in the week. I like to have this kind of craft work to do in the evenings. I find it quite relaxing so long as I don’t do too much at once. I finished the piece this morning. I didn’t find the [...] It amuses me that this technique is known as the English paper piecing method. Just goes to show how we are influenced by the American view of the world. To me this is just paper piecing. It is in fact the first technique that I used to make a patchwork quilt at the end [...] My next activity for the C&G course was reverse appliqué. I’ve done some on the machine before, but not by hand. Instead of just basing the design on one of my images of lines I decided to make something a bit more challenging. My first place to look for inspiration was the book 1000 [...] When I started module 3 and was looking at the activities that were coming up, I thought what a coincidence it was, as I had just been reading about broderie perse at womenfolk.com. It is one of the techniques I am learning in this module. Take a look at the article at womenfolk.com to [...] One of my activities for the C&G course has been causing me pain. I was to take a shape and use it to create a design with bonded appliqué. At the same time I was to think about the colours I was using. In a previous activity I took photos of shapes around the [...] I was browsing the internet as you do – me I’m always googling words for inspiration, both text and images – and came across this “what if” blog. That really made me smile because if one thing stuck in my mind from my Self Expressions class with Myrna at QU it was to keep [...] |
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