http://www.sew2speak.com Patchwork, Quilting and Dyeing Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:38:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since I had such an easy time with the first exercise I did activity 2 as well today. I had to deconstruct a box and then use it as a pattern to make two more. Yesterday I was sorting out our collection of greeting cards and emptied a clear plastic ... http://www.sew2speak.com/archives/2008/08/24/little-boxes/ I've started the next module. This one is all about form. I anticipated that the first activity would be to provide a selection of images to illustrate form. While on holiday in June I (well we actually!) not only took photos of texture but also of form. So most of ... http://www.sew2speak.com/archives/2008/08/24/module-5-on-form/ Last night I did the final piece of course work for module 4 of the C&G course. It was another collage. I used wrapping paper this time. If you look carefully you can read parts of the word Christmas :-) I wanted to try out an idea I've had in ... http://www.sew2speak.com/archives/2008/08/19/module-4-completed/ Yesterday I spent most of the afternoon and early evening making collages. Not to mention most of Saturday evening choosing two images to use as inspiration. I had quite a lot of fun making them. Funnily enough apart from doing pottery the only other thing I remember from art classes ... http://www.sew2speak.com/archives/2008/08/18/collages/ Technical support to the rescue. The photographer has made me a detail to show the chain stitch. So here you are: http://www.sew2speak.com/archives/2008/08/16/two-coloured-chain-stitch/ I finished my crazy patchwork mini-quilt today. It's 25 cm square and I actually did put a binding on. When I come to think about it I believe this is the first piece from the C&G's course that I have actually "finished". I've been treating everything as samples up to ... http://www.sew2speak.com/archives/2008/08/16/all-done/ 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 ... http://www.sew2speak.com/archives/2008/08/13/crazy-patchwork/ I've been reasonably productive today and got another exercise completed too. This time it involved manipulating pleats in fabric. I started off with two different fabrics, both with stripes, which I used as the starting point for my pleats. I discovered that the width of the pleats and the spacing has ... http://www.sew2speak.com/archives/2008/08/10/manipulated-pleats/ I was able to recycle some bits left over from other classes in this exercise for the C&G course. I tend to hoard all my samples as you never know when they may have their use. I was able to recycle a four-patch square, a strip-pieced square, a hexagon and ... http://www.sew2speak.com/archives/2008/08/10/folded-squares-hexagons-and-triangles/ This time I just felt like doing something small and fast and spontaneous. When I looked at the photo of flattened prairie points in the course notes they looked like kites to me. So that's what they became. The background is some fabric that I had already dyed as sky, ... http://www.sew2speak.com/archives/2008/07/23/prairie-point-inserts/