tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79369947449196250872024-03-13T06:27:38.410-07:00Cathy Geier's Quilty Art BlogMaterial Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207955801104019255noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936994744919625087.post-73377740711288693342022-06-08T19:12:00.003-07:002022-07-28T06:04:44.684-07:00Ted in Technicolor<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmmB6qTEem_3VNhdQ_e5dPwSksPNMYofU-6Iw-eTv3yfuQB5Zd_5lCLtBr5yN7wmGAB615glDaQFs0G6yDnr4Y_wnput1FiFotZRy7B-R3UZpUYd4GQC2p8XuUpMpP8USlEyC7d7dP4TgaY_oRiocLMCbCuWLUuqIU3lXDKT9TTl7Kp1ppfjPi-1UufQ/s3243/14.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1867" data-original-width="3243" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmmB6qTEem_3VNhdQ_e5dPwSksPNMYofU-6Iw-eTv3yfuQB5Zd_5lCLtBr5yN7wmGAB615glDaQFs0G6yDnr4Y_wnput1FiFotZRy7B-R3UZpUYd4GQC2p8XuUpMpP8USlEyC7d7dP4TgaY_oRiocLMCbCuWLUuqIU3lXDKT9TTl7Kp1ppfjPi-1UufQ/w640-h368/14.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ted in Technicolor, appliqued over a hand painting background<br /></span>72 x 40 inches<br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It's been a LONG time since I've posted anything, like since March 2021. Our family moved to Middleton, WI so I could be closer to help my aging parents. We sold our house in Waukesha in February 2021, Ted - my husband - retired in January that year then we spent a few anguished months in a tiny rental trying to buy a house while getting ready for my daughter's wedding with a family reunion out of state in August. <br /> How do you spell stress?!<br /><br />For the few months leading up to Ted's retirement I began teasing him that he is the oak tree of our family, specifically a Burr Oak. He's steady, strong and protective, though perhaps a little weather beaten. (3 kids, me for a wife, cancer and 5 knee surgeries will do that to a guy!) Anyway, I began to think of making this theme into a quilt to honor him on the occasion of his retirement. <br /><br />Naturally I began taking pictures and looking at oak trees. </span><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCJHd7Ed8L3b4xylWcGcU52flcZcY3txzfiw7WQGoQkE_TtWJN8Xo5AjhlINFQZVhzCooVjlFBuLpKCdLg8kvgiXUDWG4T3IvdgJUVpY1bNZlbM9Gj20oQgZN4yD3rARpt21jkm2xZoTTW_pDPc6fx0_EAsQJl2kXX9asEeYqgH-5CVWDhIBaL-0Liuw/s1024/2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCJHd7Ed8L3b4xylWcGcU52flcZcY3txzfiw7WQGoQkE_TtWJN8Xo5AjhlINFQZVhzCooVjlFBuLpKCdLg8kvgiXUDWG4T3IvdgJUVpY1bNZlbM9Gj20oQgZN4yD3rARpt21jkm2xZoTTW_pDPc6fx0_EAsQJl2kXX9asEeYqgH-5CVWDhIBaL-0Liuw/w640-h426/2.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: center;">A mighty Burr Oak tree</div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw-xTTId8FnTD1ud0bB6t7GI2eyKtqHwKugIjMw_FQLZem3XFmA6r49F-tXIc3chtMLIEncYULayjNA-tckSd7tR0Amo0wV_HLcOFDidCKJf5kyawJZR_Z7wQM36T8nsvfjXrsiZ3bB9a2rF-Z_MOpUb5P8rqTM2aOqPVX7qEhwtQ9p6YA6kHg1yInGQ/s1340/3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="1340" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw-xTTId8FnTD1ud0bB6t7GI2eyKtqHwKugIjMw_FQLZem3XFmA6r49F-tXIc3chtMLIEncYULayjNA-tckSd7tR0Amo0wV_HLcOFDidCKJf5kyawJZR_Z7wQM36T8nsvfjXrsiZ3bB9a2rF-Z_MOpUb5P8rqTM2aOqPVX7qEhwtQ9p6YA6kHg1yInGQ/w640-h206/3.jpg" width="640" /></a> <span style="text-align: center;">More oak trees!</span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I thought I'd make a tree on a landscape background fabric that I had in my stash. The fabric was pretty dull for what I wanted though - here it is. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYa4BJbjxBS4ulBj0DpttPQQhsVxxMY6XYAD_r5x_b5_xiJHoPaJj7FAdTgM7RdLhAgyK6E-I1Ouoa_Krme9d-TcFk7hWvJb9RTNWS_CJpZD5iBxBDVS_dcz_Z85IWHscviiUx8Jq-Mub3wzDwQenyPpu23ikb8LFWvtztWQ-6T6ezY0wLLaqnvZIwPw/s752/5.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="702" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYa4BJbjxBS4ulBj0DpttPQQhsVxxMY6XYAD_r5x_b5_xiJHoPaJj7FAdTgM7RdLhAgyK6E-I1Ouoa_Krme9d-TcFk7hWvJb9RTNWS_CJpZD5iBxBDVS_dcz_Z85IWHscviiUx8Jq-Mub3wzDwQenyPpu23ikb8LFWvtztWQ-6T6ezY0wLLaqnvZIwPw/w598-h640/5.JPG" width="598" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The fabric was from Northcott Silk but I don't remember the name of it anymore. Anyway, you'll notice the rather dull grayed colors, especially in the foreground? After playing around with Inktense Color blocks I decided to paint it. I got out my blues and greens and created this foreground for the landscape.</span> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhauthKw0a_0aVsbOwY8U5JcBfrxi9qiIMfsZ4regWW3kUDKXbzMFHoGAHVO0T2p7YUrvq54jf1569D4GSiVo2QVM5cG2lLB2o_KyE9eIccpb8ojyLYkWFNpbQ9C6IDfZ5SdmiMRccZeadrQvlZ9h9Ft0AR0qQCBwvWXqntz33XZPlNVLFgOO7QwcuFTg/s5184/6.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhauthKw0a_0aVsbOwY8U5JcBfrxi9qiIMfsZ4regWW3kUDKXbzMFHoGAHVO0T2p7YUrvq54jf1569D4GSiVo2QVM5cG2lLB2o_KyE9eIccpb8ojyLYkWFNpbQ9C6IDfZ5SdmiMRccZeadrQvlZ9h9Ft0AR0qQCBwvWXqntz33XZPlNVLFgOO7QwcuFTg/w640-h480/6.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The start of my painting - the foreground</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I kept adding more and more paint because as Inktense dries, it gets lighter.</span> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBSl_Gye08mVJENHlAjhlMtGi-lZNL4vaVtT-I_nBXKkL1xAwRcGH98ph8BZhoklYohJ0hrVadup7Kx9nXgHOpb_mG5aUuAmGNOlkHbx9dcJ5VrnutnDpH6ICulC_iKtExKKV6Qr0LMVO7Dy1YnYUTQ2UJZHFhdV_CUbW-zP9BDXhY4HHLAvKyIwlqvA/s5184/7.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBSl_Gye08mVJENHlAjhlMtGi-lZNL4vaVtT-I_nBXKkL1xAwRcGH98ph8BZhoklYohJ0hrVadup7Kx9nXgHOpb_mG5aUuAmGNOlkHbx9dcJ5VrnutnDpH6ICulC_iKtExKKV6Qr0LMVO7Dy1YnYUTQ2UJZHFhdV_CUbW-zP9BDXhY4HHLAvKyIwlqvA/w640-h480/7.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More and more green and blues</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I was really happy with the way it was looking! I added more green bluffs and I wanted the water and the sky to sort of blend together so it would be hard to tell where one ended and the other started.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwRKiVbSwqOMlKzKPysLRzzzTk-9UBmcdLtS-hdGPsDh0Y8PG5s2CttOqPzzmP-QnoV8_aMvcnw_VIwXXLWcVBq6CyTlAcyGkShLLffmNIcPQQpWh02CXxTr00B27ZoOB825zfMXxQaR7-gXFQECyzn85RLor2XZ6gjX8GjXRaCMIq_lqWDngI4Dlh9A/s5184/8.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwRKiVbSwqOMlKzKPysLRzzzTk-9UBmcdLtS-hdGPsDh0Y8PG5s2CttOqPzzmP-QnoV8_aMvcnw_VIwXXLWcVBq6CyTlAcyGkShLLffmNIcPQQpWh02CXxTr00B27ZoOB825zfMXxQaR7-gXFQECyzn85RLor2XZ6gjX8GjXRaCMIq_lqWDngI4Dlh9A/w640-h480/8.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Green bluffs, blue water. I added more green in the foreground where the tree would be placed.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIpohVR50FxX4cMNLgc6syBB1N1Xs_Rhm7L-4Wixq_ZEUqF8gCqN6skRvaeVjd6SM6qRHJ1nauwxA7VlmEJNPe9leLDOEW09jlN3tQeDA9oEAQRAbtV3CDGjMuqM3yOPBbROuroh6NuUGsYuV-GmZ2IadIcKngeMMqDKRUlLlJu2Xzyc7XTPTZyxmF0g/s5184/9.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2956" data-original-width="5184" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIpohVR50FxX4cMNLgc6syBB1N1Xs_Rhm7L-4Wixq_ZEUqF8gCqN6skRvaeVjd6SM6qRHJ1nauwxA7VlmEJNPe9leLDOEW09jlN3tQeDA9oEAQRAbtV3CDGjMuqM3yOPBbROuroh6NuUGsYuV-GmZ2IadIcKngeMMqDKRUlLlJu2Xzyc7XTPTZyxmF0g/w640-h364/9.JPG" width="640" /></a><br />Finished!<br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Once the bottom part of the fabric was done I began on the top. I added a lot of yellow, orange and red - but mostly on the right side to keep the landscape from looking too much the same on both sides of the tree. <br /><br />The next step was creating a pattern. I found a tree I liked, and photoshopped it to stretch it out enough to fill the long piece of my painted fabric. Then I printed it out on a bazillion pieces of paper, taped them all together to create the full size pattern and then taped that to my sliding glass door and traced it all on freezer paper. Whew! My arm was tired after 2-3 days of tracing branches!<br />(Yeah, I don't mind work when it's fun!)<br /><br />Here is my pattern - </span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTt_a79SRdPO7ZxmA3s_nn81YshXcf6ff58ESreBghIccijbTPOFfNKXaSACpgD5-zY0z8M0exVhygm_lQz7x0_sgbGmh5y7dzAl5mcNi1_ajUuswUVRSzn0pDaiMVor7E9WJPzTANVM02YSVPJFOmXL4aQ_79An5tsfRAS9ITzpADYI-Who23QDKrVA/s1637/4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="901" data-original-width="1637" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTt_a79SRdPO7ZxmA3s_nn81YshXcf6ff58ESreBghIccijbTPOFfNKXaSACpgD5-zY0z8M0exVhygm_lQz7x0_sgbGmh5y7dzAl5mcNi1_ajUuswUVRSzn0pDaiMVor7E9WJPzTANVM02YSVPJFOmXL4aQ_79An5tsfRAS9ITzpADYI-Who23QDKrVA/w640-h352/4.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Once the tree was traced out - and no I didn't trace out all those teensy tiny branches - I laid it out to double check how it would look on my background. </span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLaJoKJjzOzdY9uDDabW7AQ3SKN5n7ySD5-rkXpP47oXLPzLFgS9wWRxG2dxFwmru2GZlyofRLBcP1E-5jokVrI8pXjN0FWOThKapek2MvBQoS_NLP9FGSW0xp1bRfB2gVx3ZqbPsTZ1SwE6gy5L_lgeUUBYH6ymXZtYRrArK5-JBFf-MDGsKIgUXLlg/s3804/10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1960" data-original-width="3804" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLaJoKJjzOzdY9uDDabW7AQ3SKN5n7ySD5-rkXpP47oXLPzLFgS9wWRxG2dxFwmru2GZlyofRLBcP1E-5jokVrI8pXjN0FWOThKapek2MvBQoS_NLP9FGSW0xp1bRfB2gVx3ZqbPsTZ1SwE6gy5L_lgeUUBYH6ymXZtYRrArK5-JBFf-MDGsKIgUXLlg/w640-h330/10.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />Yep, that'll work! <br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />Now for the real fun - picking out branch fabrics! </span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH_TkX2e_a1XBbRYdJqePEYGLMnTrQRabBgF6YH0SaTz1tw08Af7WUx0InGvD1B16tLCEGwcWCUPI1BQoCcbjqWj1zA4beA4omfCEHm3SeF2117hNp8R8NxeQjMMFRl9cviLpBkyjpGkaIKU2iqYYSsmwof5GbyS3VA_u-fB4ATPIp_CSPLhazzj0eKw/s5184/10a.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH_TkX2e_a1XBbRYdJqePEYGLMnTrQRabBgF6YH0SaTz1tw08Af7WUx0InGvD1B16tLCEGwcWCUPI1BQoCcbjqWj1zA4beA4omfCEHm3SeF2117hNp8R8NxeQjMMFRl9cviLpBkyjpGkaIKU2iqYYSsmwof5GbyS3VA_u-fB4ATPIp_CSPLhazzj0eKw/w640-h480/10a.JPG" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I love batiks! (Bet you can't tell.) They are woven tighter and don't fray as much on the edges. Plus there is so much color movement throughout the fabric. They are perfect for this project. </span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-nEFxqGgzg5glNGdXuUEt10nCDrC4kcsxPq5ONbVrqdouoq0ZJB0v9TYP2zxtwUjXYIotN7EJmalSHohmMWzgKSjeu9TIH3WDWGbmsEIW2roQ7jjZxvmQpD5EcZE0ZOuaEq6lFEUi-75D3eGfcSSbY6-RHqrM8TKB35pEiKcXGQn6DpA83LdEvRQWiQ/s5184/10b.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-nEFxqGgzg5glNGdXuUEt10nCDrC4kcsxPq5ONbVrqdouoq0ZJB0v9TYP2zxtwUjXYIotN7EJmalSHohmMWzgKSjeu9TIH3WDWGbmsEIW2roQ7jjZxvmQpD5EcZE0ZOuaEq6lFEUi-75D3eGfcSSbY6-RHqrM8TKB35pEiKcXGQn6DpA83LdEvRQWiQ/w640-h480/10b.JPG" width="640" /></a><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As I began, I cut out the major empty sections of my freezer paper pattern. Then I pressed the whole tree to the background fabric. I then fused Wonder Under to the wrong side of the batiks I picked out. Using a tiny scissors I carefully cut out each piece from my paper pattern. If you notice those smooth arcing lines in my branches? I didn't want each branch to be the same fabric throughout. I wanted the colors to change and get lighter in value as the branches grew away from the trunk. <br /><br />You'll also notice the small hash lines in the above pic? I soon realized that I would have to draw them on every connecting piece. I had cut out the first few pieces from my pattern and pressed them to the right side of the fabric I had chosen and then cut each pattern piece out and fused it to the background. I started building from the bottom up. <br /><br />Soon I became the Hash Line Queen. </span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH4Srqmh9pblNBN3i0Z8kPqNNukTPpS1pWXncYPand28XmHXJPuyiRP7-kz-cDgZ36zBzZ0bbNbmMnUGSloZRmXtUzf-TRz72q9PQPKt452fzOc-ExnUj1E5noQR4kWSNyHGPrFkY3LGoeSaEVSVYoIBjFr_YGp8UyVdcCKWxnJ2AvLALEYROecnzf8A/s5184/10c.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH4Srqmh9pblNBN3i0Z8kPqNNukTPpS1pWXncYPand28XmHXJPuyiRP7-kz-cDgZ36zBzZ0bbNbmMnUGSloZRmXtUzf-TRz72q9PQPKt452fzOc-ExnUj1E5noQR4kWSNyHGPrFkY3LGoeSaEVSVYoIBjFr_YGp8UyVdcCKWxnJ2AvLALEYROecnzf8A/w640-h480/10c.JPG" width="640" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />As I filled in hash lines, I had to decide which branches came forward and which were behind them.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLZrJCVpiARFTtQE6F_OR6hEe7njdvjwUz4rZ4tt_eWrUn7Uz7CEKJ_C_AyDd7lbwCG-5Nz6Rx3DRiyqb2ef-3-JwGRdQTTzpuIlLZcZjTfMknJS7LZviZxaEZXZgZT2W5USnhm0b98R9O1PUb02IRZanASbZddgzyTNmolD_rbGpDiZBhFnNKBrYZQA/s5184/10d.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLZrJCVpiARFTtQE6F_OR6hEe7njdvjwUz4rZ4tt_eWrUn7Uz7CEKJ_C_AyDd7lbwCG-5Nz6Rx3DRiyqb2ef-3-JwGRdQTTzpuIlLZcZjTfMknJS7LZviZxaEZXZgZT2W5USnhm0b98R9O1PUb02IRZanASbZddgzyTNmolD_rbGpDiZBhFnNKBrYZQA/w640-h480/10d.JPG" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Adding all those hash lines was a bit tedious, but absolutely necessary to fit all the branches in all the fabrics together correctly. I also began to write which color each branch should be, but I got so involved I forgot to take a picture of that for you. </span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglt_jYainQmMqoEYug9ngrmpbxDwm3NzCCa6jqEkj0-95QmiKLu3nnFv-mkpKcaoI9-jKq7A-ceuTGdSOKgDq6WbFf5EWmCxvpHDLkveB5zCRTUlwfmWEHCM_y2vg0qose65FcEyE4M1vPihyk9FM8qahxNCK1lfm6eKreNQedC4IQ_u-WMEx0U-W82Q/s3634/11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1960" data-original-width="3634" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglt_jYainQmMqoEYug9ngrmpbxDwm3NzCCa6jqEkj0-95QmiKLu3nnFv-mkpKcaoI9-jKq7A-ceuTGdSOKgDq6WbFf5EWmCxvpHDLkveB5zCRTUlwfmWEHCM_y2vg0qose65FcEyE4M1vPihyk9FM8qahxNCK1lfm6eKreNQedC4IQ_u-WMEx0U-W82Q/w640-h346/11.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />So here you can see the start of my branches. The colors change from dark to lighter purple, or from blue to red or purple to orange. It was such fun to play with these colors! </span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9HMGB0PqQcddbpoY3w9tvyLZOdOdMl3qCRUfjY23n-uKAWeSj8wNHRBveHEn8JAqovnP-Rt4HubivPHUguT_auJB5_JpLl5PdINYGFGfLg8X_9qPRORg1aJUaXqWSQsUlP9bZYfsrzBFLp2l5MT7b4oufR0H9ph4w4SmhPHj8ng04D5XDkUu6Nvmm9w/s4032/12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1960" data-original-width="4032" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9HMGB0PqQcddbpoY3w9tvyLZOdOdMl3qCRUfjY23n-uKAWeSj8wNHRBveHEn8JAqovnP-Rt4HubivPHUguT_auJB5_JpLl5PdINYGFGfLg8X_9qPRORg1aJUaXqWSQsUlP9bZYfsrzBFLp2l5MT7b4oufR0H9ph4w4SmhPHj8ng04D5XDkUu6Nvmm9w/w640-h312/12.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">After a while I decided to see what would happen if I got out my white highlighting marker and some colored fabric dye markers to make my branches look 3 dimensional. Wow I was a happy camper! When I got sick of cutting out bits of branches I played with my markers.</span><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMKHzpaka-B2hYWKFPzLycZBCAjY31xunpNbnoyciPOXmQFair6zFKsTWPKpTgwS0dqDCWdt3tY_UGN9IN8zbFcjEQAFWV9s6DnBTJFQRg-g4KX5hQWfi6rOMPZDp_LbxTixCF48ZC3m5-frvuBNP8GjE3hGDo5YXxj_mhvkWZT8fhoAnWTzfDCBJu5w/s5184/13.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMKHzpaka-B2hYWKFPzLycZBCAjY31xunpNbnoyciPOXmQFair6zFKsTWPKpTgwS0dqDCWdt3tY_UGN9IN8zbFcjEQAFWV9s6DnBTJFQRg-g4KX5hQWfi6rOMPZDp_LbxTixCF48ZC3m5-frvuBNP8GjE3hGDo5YXxj_mhvkWZT8fhoAnWTzfDCBJu5w/w640-h480/13.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here you can see how I sort of decided which colors would go where. I didn't want 2 branches in a row of the same color, plus I wanted a balanced look so I didn't want all the red and bright orange only in a few spots. The other thing I had to keep track of was the change in value of the background from the light yellow above the green bluffs to the deep red of the sunset sky above. I had to make sure the top tree branches would stand out from the dark red sky. <br /><br />And once again, the finished quilt top! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDyEBGFYTwn173biJoF1KGw8JX2hAiQA-Cf6SA8sW6dktf3YNxpzpgJc7czeK-hk3anf-MhiHI5sdOhsbRywsClHXC-vGH0lRolBxScTwaBMLlZunl-HrfyI_F4bJPHLp0-75wuVLUPC1w4Nks-ELZl3wQxA64VrltUoVXXIdAN5s0dGbTf5-xN5bljA/s3243/1%20Ted%20in%20Technicolor.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1867" data-original-width="3243" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDyEBGFYTwn173biJoF1KGw8JX2hAiQA-Cf6SA8sW6dktf3YNxpzpgJc7czeK-hk3anf-MhiHI5sdOhsbRywsClHXC-vGH0lRolBxScTwaBMLlZunl-HrfyI_F4bJPHLp0-75wuVLUPC1w4Nks-ELZl3wQxA64VrltUoVXXIdAN5s0dGbTf5-xN5bljA/w640-h368/1%20Ted%20in%20Technicolor.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The only other thing I want to mention is that Ted asked me to make the tree out of "manly colors". </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Hardy har har!! If you look really closely, there is one brown patch on the thick part of the trunk. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Poor hubby! (Manly colors?! BORING. Lol, I don't do manly colors!) </span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I've had the quilt top ready for stitching since March 2021. I actually got 2 hours a couple of weeks ago to work on it. There is a bible verse and a song made from Ecclesiastes 3. </span></div><br /><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="chapter-1"><span class="text Eccl-3-1" style="position: relative;"><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Noto Sans, sans-serif, Arial">There is a time for everything,</span><span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span></span></span><span class="indent-1" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial"><span class="text Eccl-3-1" style="position: relative;">and a season for every activity under the heavens:</span></span></p></div><div class="poetry top-05" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Eccl-3-2" id="en-NIV-17362" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; line-height: 0;"> </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Noto Sans, sans-serif, Arial">a time to be born and a time to die,</span><span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span></span></span><span class="indent-1" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial"><span class="text Eccl-3-2" style="position: relative;">a time to plant and a time to uproot,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial"><span class="text Eccl-3-3" id="en-NIV-17363" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; line-height: 0;"> </span>a time to kill and a time to heal,</span></span><span class="indent-1" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Eccl-3-3" style="position: relative;">a time to tear down and a time to build,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Eccl-3-4" id="en-NIV-17364" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; line-height: 0;"> </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Noto Sans, sans-serif, Arial">a time to weep and a time to laugh,</span><span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span></span></span><span class="indent-1" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial"><span class="text Eccl-3-4" style="position: relative;">a time to mourn and a time to dance,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial"><span class="text Eccl-3-5" id="en-NIV-17365" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; line-height: 0;"> </span>a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Eccl-3-5" style="position: relative;">a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial"><span class="text Eccl-3-6" id="en-NIV-17366" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; line-height: 0;"> </span>a time to search and a time to give up,</span></span><span class="indent-1" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Eccl-3-6" style="position: relative;">a time to keep and a time to throw away,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial"><span class="text Eccl-3-7" id="en-NIV-17367" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; line-height: 0;"> </span>a time to tear and a time to mend,</span></span><span class="indent-1" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Eccl-3-7" style="position: relative;">a time to be silent and a time to speak,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Eccl-3-8" id="en-NIV-17368" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; line-height: 0;"> </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Noto Sans, sans-serif, Arial">a time to love and a time to hate,</span><span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span></span></span><span class="indent-1" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial"><span class="text Eccl-3-8" style="position: relative;">a time for war and a time for peace.<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On that last note, please pray and support Ukraine. We've
all seen the horror stories and Ted and I have friends there. It's horrible
what is happening to Ukrainians as Russia is trying to eliminate them as a people.
Please don't get tired of hearing about the invasion and do your best to help
where you can. </span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Also, my 'new' website people have disappeared so I still don't have a website
up and running. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I may never go back in business now, but I still have a lot of fabric so I don't know what I'll do with it all. Perhaps sell it using paypal? I don't know. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Anyway, that's all for me. Hopefully it won't be another year before I have time and energy to post again! Warm wishes to all of you! </div></span><o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="indent-1" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial"><span class="text Eccl-3-8" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></p></div></div>Material Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207955801104019255noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936994744919625087.post-65153609928118433452021-03-06T13:38:00.000-08:002021-03-06T13:38:27.759-08:00News<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiimjRQKmdf9PLf4N88FRREaVOLrWPHb3WkOLymm9dq9JJJX-rGh2zMsVICGOgncurODGTQIy2OdIZp-XxknXM0iMP_3P-MQuIwSpof9UpPfBI9zDDDBbd7-Af34cx9DAt2ph1LBkbcPUVH/s1024/New+Blog+Pic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="1024" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiimjRQKmdf9PLf4N88FRREaVOLrWPHb3WkOLymm9dq9JJJX-rGh2zMsVICGOgncurODGTQIy2OdIZp-XxknXM0iMP_3P-MQuIwSpof9UpPfBI9zDDDBbd7-Af34cx9DAt2ph1LBkbcPUVH/w640-h369/New+Blog+Pic.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">When I get settled I'll be showing you how I made the above quilt. I'm calling it "Ted in Technicolor".<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yep, there is a story here. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />Stay Tuned!</span></span><br /><br /></div><p></p><p><br /></p>Material Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207955801104019255noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936994744919625087.post-4522192536733490772020-11-20T09:19:00.001-08:002020-11-20T09:21:25.801-08:00Upcoming Problems, er, I mean Challenges<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbcGUkaiKH1KmI6R4yCWu0DnCOQRwIiNwTedaH7MHasT1HfP9KBOCUzyU_Jy9sPB8jdYZOUjdNkSa4B_spIt1tKFxmZuAK2_J7l07PpIhaMdWi43Wp4zhwToOBzYQTI_5G6xlryRW7qvGT/s1024/Eagle.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="457" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbcGUkaiKH1KmI6R4yCWu0DnCOQRwIiNwTedaH7MHasT1HfP9KBOCUzyU_Jy9sPB8jdYZOUjdNkSa4B_spIt1tKFxmZuAK2_J7l07PpIhaMdWi43Wp4zhwToOBzYQTI_5G6xlryRW7qvGT/w457-h457/Eagle.JPG" width="457" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So here is the promised closeup of the eagle from my Monument Valley quilt a couple of months ago. See, I remembered! <br /><br />Now on to the problems and challenges. My website and store was hosted by a wonderful group of people called Quiltropolis. Well, they are retiring. At the end of this month. <br />EEEK. If you want any fabric from my store, better get it now. <br /><br />I am moving to another server with a completely different web-host and store. All this will take time. I'm pretty sure that for a while my www.cathygeier.com homepage will look the same, but the links won't be working. <br /><br />If you don't panic, I won't panic, lol. <br /><br />My email is the same in case you want to contact me. <br />(It's on my website homepage at the bottom.)<br /><br />I'm working on another quilt, have been finishing off UFO's and will post again soon, but for now I have to get my business affairs in order. <br /><br />Hope I'll be up and running again soon.<br />Thanks!<br />Cathy<br /><br /> </span></div><p></p>Material Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207955801104019255noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936994744919625087.post-50596130166947392582020-07-29T18:15:00.000-07:002020-07-29T18:15:22.407-07:00Monument Valley - A New Landscape Quilt<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I've been working on a new quilt for the last couple of weeks. It felt sooo good to be back using fabrics and paints to make a landscape. Here's a little bit about how I've been feeling, what I've been doing and why I wanted to make this particular scene.<a name='more'></a><br /><br /> It's been a rough few months for all of us as the corona virus has swept around the world. In our country it's for all intents and purposes out of control and instead of flattening any sort of curve and coming out of this thing by opening up safely, we are stuck with 150 thousand dead and no end in sight. </span></div>
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My last blog was all about mask making. Since then I've made 750 masks and 95 surgical scrub caps. (Which is a drop in the bucket - some mighty seamstresses I know have made over 2000 masks!) I've sent the ones I made all over from New York City and to local retirement homes, but most of mine have been shipped to the Navajo Nation. The disease hit them very very hard since many of their homes don't have running water and they must travel to common areas to get it, thus exposing themselves to the virus. </div>
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I've been to Monument Valley Tribal Park twice. One of the neatest hikes I've ever been on was around the big mitten on the left on the Wildcat Trail. There is a gorgeous lodge there if you don't want to camp, just sayin'. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And here is another shot I found inspirational - a glorious sunrise!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As I was sewing masks for the Navajo Nation I would cry for the people, pray for them and by the time I was through I was desperate to capture the beauty of their land in a quilt. I suppose I was thinking that this quilt would be sort of a memorial; a quilt to commemorate the beauty and courage of the Navajo people and a reminder to me of how I was able to help them by sewing masks for a couple of months.<br /><br />You know I run a store, right? Well two fabrics from Northcott Silk's The View From Here collection came out and when I got the bolts I thought WOW! Monument Valley in two fabrics! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The View From Here, two fabrics and my toes! </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I began by creating a pattern for the monuments. I printed out the big mittens in various sizes and settled on this size. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I traced the monument on freezer paper and cut out the first monument. (After it was cut out I pressed a paper back fusible web to the wrong side of the fabric.)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Where I placed the freezer paper pattern</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> The next thing I did was to cut out the foreground bluff the mitten is stacked on. I just freehand cut it out in a gentle slope.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I did the same thing with the small mitten in the distance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> At this point as I was designing my landscape I really liked it. I just didn't like two mittens though. I'll come back to that. The mitten cutouts needed a little fixing so I cut pillar like portions out of that brilliant dark sunset print and used my handy Elmer's glue sticks to glue those shapes over the mitten cut out. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The small mitten finished</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Here is what I added to the large mitten - </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Big mittens finished</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Remember how I didn't like just two monuments? Well I decided I'd use a bigger piece for my sunset/sunrise background fabric and add this monument from the 1st photograph above. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Pillar cut outs and the shape of the monument on the right</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">And my finished monument</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Once I made all three monuments, I arranged them like the 1st photograph of the valley.<br /></span></div>
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I didn't like it. Neither did most of my friends on Facebook. I get a lot of feedback from my FB friends and I really appreciate it! Sometimes having extra eyes on your work is so helpful because they see what you might miss. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> First layout - BORING. Yes, three monuments are more interesting than two but all in a row like this is pretty bad.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I liked this much better. The view isn't quite the same as the photograph but God can get away with a lot that Cathy Geier can't! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">These are the shapes I cut out of the sunset print to create the foreground and the bases of the monuments</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">At this point I wanted to add some umph and pizzazz to the background fabric. I took everything off the background and made little marks where the top of the monuments had been.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">See the little pencil mark?</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I got out my Inktense Color Blocks and went to work. I added brilliant yellow to the left side of the sky. When working with these blocks, you have to remember that when they dry the fabric isn't as bright as when it's wet. It dries more mellow. (Mellow yellow. Now you might get an earworm as you think about this song, lol!) </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">This is wet fabric so it's pretty intense</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I have single color blocks and I also have a set. These are permanent watercolor paints. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To use them, I like grinding the end of the color block into a bit of water in a paint pan. Then I spray down my fabric to get it pretty wet and simply paint it. I followed the print and made the yellow in the print more yellow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This is dry now - see how subtle the yellow paint is? It's only on the left side of the print. Next I decided to add more blues and purples to the sky. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You can see how the blue colors are lower in the sky on the right. This was so easy to do! I think it makes a big difference.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> I glued down all the stuff I cut out, fused on the monuments but felt it still needed something.</span></div>
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A golden eagle! </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well not all done, I have to quilt it.<br /><br /> I made the eagle the same way as everything else. I made a pattern on freezer paper, found a workable brown batik and fused the eagle onto the quilt top. I should probably show you some close ups of the eagle. I used a dark brown fabric dye marker to color portions of the wings and I used my trusty white highlight marker to add details to the underside of the wings and tail.<br /><br />My golden eagle is flying high above the earth and I was hoping it would symbolize the strength, dignity and courage of the Navajo people.<br /><br />I'll try to remember to get some closeup shots of the eagle next time I blog.<br /><br />Stay safe my friends! Lord willing I'll blog again soon.</span></div>
Material Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207955801104019255noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936994744919625087.post-74594415372254732112020-03-21T12:11:00.002-07:002020-05-15T16:24:34.156-07:00Medical Masks - It's SOS time. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Hey all, this is a short fast tutorial on how I am making medical masks. There are lots of us getting requests so anything you can do to help our health care professionals would be awesome. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">You will need good quality cotton fabric and cotton thread, you'll also need elastic. I used 1/4 inch, I've heard other's using 1/8. So far I could find it at Joanne's but I hear it's sold out in many places. UGH!!!<br /><br />I have modified the mask instructions from Deaconess Hospital to allow us to insert pipe cleaners to get the mask to form fit the bridge of the nose. Here is the video/page of the Deaconess's instructions. Please look it over I'll be doing things very similarly.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.deaconess.com/How-to-make-a-Face-Mask">https://www.deaconess.com/How-to-make-a-Face-Mask</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Whereas Deaconess is sewing 2 pieces of fabric together to form the mask, I'm using one long one. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Cut out a large rectangle - 8 x 14.5 inch</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">es<br />(Note, since I wrote up this blog I've discovered an easier way to insert a pipe cleaner/wire. If you read through the directions before March 24th, I've added 1/2 inch to the large rectangle so it's now 8 x 14.5.)<br /><br />NOTE - If you can't find any 1/4 inch elastic and are using 1/2 inch, cut this rectangle 8 x 15.5 to give yourself more room to fold down the top. (You'll see what I mean as we progress here.)<br /><br />EDIT (May 15th). I'm making masks bigger now. So cut your rectangle 8.5 x 15 and your elastic 8 inches. Thanks! for all you do.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> The top of our mask is going to be the fold. In an effort to keep bulky seam allowances away from the bridge of the nose area and to add a light weight sleeve for our pipe cleaner I'm folding my long piece of fabric instead of using 2 pieces. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Cut two 7 inch pieces of elastic. In the above pic the fold we pressed into our rectangle is on the right. Do you see the angle that I'm holding the elastic in? That is the position we want the elastic in only BETWEEN the folded layers of fabric. Hold it/pin it in place between the fabrics just under the fold and stitch 1/4 inch down the side.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Stitch 1/4 inch from the edge. You can't see it, but our piece of elastic is sewn down at the top along the fold. When you get towards the bottom stop. Find the end of the elastic and position it at the corner in that same angle. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Stitch down the elastic. MAKE SURE IT ISN'T TWISTED under the fabric, it should lay smooth. Once this corner is finished, turn the corner and stitch a couple of inches and then stop. We are going to turn our 'bag' inside out and we need to leave an opening.<br /><br />Repeat this process on the other side of the mask inserting the elastic and stitching it down in the corners. Leave a couple of inches open along the bottom.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">What your mask should look like.<br />Now, flip it inside out and press.<br />It's time to make pleats.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Fold down the top of your mask 2.5 inches and press.<br /> Now fold it back up so 2 inches is between the fold of the first pleat and the top of the mask.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Folded down, when you fold it back up leave 1/2 inch or so pinched to make a pleat.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> The Deaconess video shows this part really well if you need help. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">The fold you see is now 2 inches from the top</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">The pleat - sorry my pic is stinky it was hard holding the camera steady with one hand while holding the pleat in place.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Make 3 pleats, 1/2 inch each. Pin in place</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">We will be stitching down all the pleats and finishing the mask but before we do that, scroll to the pink mask at the bottom of this blog. (Since writing this blog I'm doing things MUCH easier!)<br /><br />The second photo of the pink mask shows how I'm turning down the top of the mask to make a sleeve for a pipe cleaner or wire. Follow that photo for instructions. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">When the top of the mask is turned down to create a tunnel for the pipe cleaner, start stitching across the top tunnel and continue on all around the mask using a 1/4 inch seam. When you get to the bottom corner go around it but sew 1/8 inch seam along the bottom to close that hole we left open.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Sew a 1/8 inch seam along the bottom. When you get to the other side of the mask switch back to a 1/4 inch seam.<br />When all three sides of the mask and the pipe cleaner tunnel are stitched down, stitch along the same sewing lines again to make sure the mask is really sturdy. <br />(It will be taking a beating in the coming weeks.) </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Insert pipe cleaner and hand out as needed. I plan on giving more than one pipe cleaner with my masks but we could run out of those too. The pipe cleaners can be taken out of the masks to wash so our nurses will have to remember that I guess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Our healthcare people are heroes and they are in the line of fire right now. Call your local hospital and ask if they would like some of these. The way they are being used is that they will go over the medical masks so the nurses can switch out the fabric ones and keep their 'real' masks cleaner longer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">I've also read that if a health care professional wants more filtration a panty liner or thin Kotex pad can be stuck to the inside of the mask. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Please stay healthy my friends and help where ever you are able. It's in these dark scary times when we often see the best in human nature so let's shine our light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Here is my friend with her new mask. (And pics of the front and back side.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Comments and questions are welcome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">OH - if you have pretty fabrics they will sooo appreciate it and so will their patients. We also can't forget the menfolk so anything with antlers or fish will be fine, lol.<br /><br />EDIT!!!<br />I'm adding this on because my wonderful friend Sun S. figured out a MUCH easier way to do the sleeve for the pipe cleaner! Forget adding a separate piece of fabric for a sleeve- this is the new improved and it looks better, too!<br /><br />When you get to the pleating process pictured below, leave 2 inches from the first pleat fold and the top of the mask.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Finished mask. (See the pipe cleaner sticking out?)<br /><br />When you sew the envelop for the pipe cleaner down, don't stitch down the sides. Sew right along the fold and then down the pleats as we did on the yellow morning glory mask. Be sure to double stitch for sturdiness!<br />Whew - thanks Sue that is a real time saver!!<br /><br />Edit - It's April now and elastic is sold out everywhere and nurses are developing tender ears so I've switched to ties. Actually, I'm using grossgrain ribbon. All I do is cut four 18 inch lengths and sew them into the corners - at a 90 degree angle. Then I tie a tight tight knot at the end of the ribbon after the mask is done. It's working quite well! </span></td></tr>
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</span>Material Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207955801104019255noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936994744919625087.post-28584493692334825792020-02-25T10:36:00.000-08:002020-02-25T10:36:06.653-08:00Beautiful Things Continues<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As winter drones on and on here I'm increasingly happy about the colors and joyful expression in my quilt. This wouldn't be a good time of year for me to make a gloomy cloudy day landscape that's for sure. You can see from the above pic that I've made some progress creating things for the tree. </span></div>
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Before I get into what I've done since the last blog I'm going to mention that my online store has a sale on fabrics going on now - 30% off in fact! Hubby is going to be retiring and we are going to sell the house... I don't want to move all the bolts that I have and I'm not sure how fast I'll be able to fill orders once this whole thing starts. As a consequence I thought I'd better reduce my inventory. Here is a link to my fabric store in case you have some shopping to do. I have some really good deals going now since I don't mark up my fabrics as much as other online retailers. The link - </div>
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If you remember my last blog you'll know I hinted about creating a special bird for the tree. Well, here she is! </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> She was put together on Pellon EK130 and then I used Liquid Stitch and fused her to the quilt top. She's somewhat stitched down but I'm not sure I liked seeing the thread so I might rip that part out and use monofilament thread. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I made some blue birds for the tree and I was going to put them in the big empty space above my joyful female but I couldn't get past birdie doo doo. Yep, that's what I said. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When I was young our school went on an overnight camping trip in some forest around here and within a couple of hours of getting there a bird pooed on my head. There was no way to shampoo my hair and it was gross. I finally found a stream and was able to dunk my head and rinse the worst of it out but YUCK.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, I tried several different arrangements of blue birds. I tried putting leaves under the birds to catch the poo, I tried angling their butts so the poo wouldn't fall on me. None of my arrangements worked. All I could think about was splat, bird poop in the face! Even when hubby suggested that they were nice holy birds and imaginary birds who would never ever poo on me I just couldn't leave those birds over my head. (I said last blog that the woman is supposed to be me before I discovered peanut butter snickers.)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So the birdies did not fill that empty space and when I put them farther in on that branch the emptiness in the tree was even more well, empty. Hence the fruit.<br /><br />I tried different fruit colors and this burgundy/plumy red batik worked the best given all the background colors in the sky. These are imaginary fruits, I know they sort of look like apples but they are really more red oranges or nice fat red plums - which I like so much better than apples. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> You'll see the 2 plums? The lower right one has been pressed with paper towel and hot iron to absorb the melted wax from the crayon. I used white crayon on one side, dark red on the other. The plum on the upper left has not been pressed. You can see how much white crayon you really have to color on before it shows up on dark fabric.<br /><br />I used used a brown fabric dye marker to make the stems brown and a dark green marker to draw a big center vein down each leaf. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Today I'll start stitching down these appliques and then I'm going to start making dust. In case you don't remember or know, this quilt was inspired by a song we used to sing in church. I'll just copy/paste the lyrics here from my last blog - <br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-size: medium;">"Beautiful Things" by the </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: medium;">Gungors</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All this pain</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wonder if I’ll ever find my way</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wonder if my life could really change at all</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All this earth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Could all that is lost ever be found</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Could a garden come up from this ground at all?<br /><br />(Chorus)<br /><span style="background-color: white;">You make beautiful things</span></span></div>
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You make beautiful things out of the dust</div>
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You make beautiful things</div>
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You make beautiful things out of us</div>
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All around</div>
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Hope is springing up from this old ground</div>
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Out of chaos life is being found in You.</div>
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You make me new, You are making me new</div>
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You make me new, You are making me new</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They have a video on YouTube in case you want to hear it -<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1spkhp41ig4" target="_blank">Beautiful Things on YouTube</a></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As to making dust. If you can believe it I've actually googled the molecular shape of dust looking for inspiration. No such luck. Dust is everything from particles of dirt to pollen so there isn't a shape to it. It's pretty much a glob of messy looking glop when you look at it up close.<br /><br />I'm thinking about making something like tiny rings of circles in different colors and they would spiral around each other or something and every few circles one would have a tiny leaf or flower coming out of it. I bought a lace trim yesterday with tiny woven flowers on it, I'm hoping to use it instead of trying to cut out tiny flowers. The flowers are white though which means I get to color them. Inktense color blocks - here I come! I hope they work on polyester.<br /><br />Well, that's it for me today. It's been a smaller blog, but I don't have that much to report. As always, comments are welcome. <br /><br />(And if you need any fabrics, please check out my store! Thanks!) </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He Makes Beautiful Things out of the Dust - the garden is done</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">It's been a long time since I've blogged or had time for quilting - it's been a long hard year for me. Last year someone quite close to me was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and I helped her and her family through chemotherapy. Now it's come back and I'm sad about what lies ahead.<br /><br />I started this quilt last April or so I think, I hardly remember. You can see a bit about how I put it together and what inspired me by reading on. </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The inspiration for this quilt comes from a song we used to sing in church by the Gungors called "He Makes Beautiful Things" here is a link to the YouTube vid they put out -<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1spkhp41ig4" target="_blank">Beautiful Things</a><br /><br />Essentially the song lyrics are these - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">All this pain</span></div>
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I wonder if I’ll ever find my way</div>
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I wonder if my life could really change at all</div>
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All this earth</div>
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Could all that is lost ever be found</div>
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Could a garden come up from this ground at all?<br /><br />(Chorus)<br /><span style="background-color: white;">You make beautiful things</span></div>
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You make beautiful things out of the dust</div>
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You make beautiful things</div>
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You make beautiful things out of us</div>
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All around</div>
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Hope is springing up from this old ground</div>
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Out of chaos life is being found in You.</div>
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You make me new, You are making me new</div>
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You make me new, You are making me new</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My idea was that I'd build a garden with everything uncurling and unfurling and growing up toward the sun and sky. Everything being made of the same forms of 'dust' so the woman has leaves and flowers on her legs and her dress has the same circular patterns as the ferns, some of the flowers and the bark on the tree. Everything uncurling and being made beautiful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sorry about my fern pattern - I can't rotate the darn thing once it's uploaded and blogspot makes it tricky to go back and reload corrected pics. Anyway, if you follow my previous blogs then you know I make patterns on freezer paper a LOT. This quilt is no different. I traced these ferns on freezer paper and will be building them bit by bit on Pellon EK 130 my go to choice for foundation when I'm making appliques. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> So, cutting out the first fern and the spine of the first fern from the freezer paper pattern I pressed it to the fabric I chose, cut out the fabric and arranged it on the foundation. (That foundation has a fusible side, see other blog posts for how I've used it in the past). I put the original drawing of the ferns under the Pellon foundation to make sure I have the placement right and lightly press it with a hot iron using a fiberglass pressing sheet to hold that fabric in place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I chose this hot pink for the outer curvy piece, so here is the cut out freezer paper paper pattern pressed to the top of that piece of fabric. All I have to do is cut it out and arrange it on the Pellon next to the spine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Can you see how I'm building the fern? I added the dark green inner spine thingy or the lighter bumpy green and then the dark green part, can't remember. Anyway, I just built my ferns bit by bit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You'll notice more details on the drawings of the ferns under the foundation, I might add beads, etc once the quilt top is put together and quilted. We'll see. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It was pretty soothing working on things little by little. Just to play bit by bit when I had time was nice and relaxing. Plus, I've never done anything like this before. Most of my quilts are sort of like 'realistic', this one is supposed to be purely decorative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I made my flowers the same way as the ferns only when I started building my garden I decided that I didn't like them in clumps I wanted them mixed up so I cut them up and mixed the blues in with other flowers.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">You're going to kill me but I can't really tell you how I made my joyful woman. I can tell you what I remember though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I didn't want a white woman, nor a black woman. I wanted a race neutral woman. She represents all of us being transformed and dancing with joy in a garden made of 'dust'. She also had to stand out and be of darker value than the sky behind her but I didn't want to make her just a silhouette like the dancing woman in my quilt Interwoven. And I wanted her to have purple hair. Did I mention that I had purple streaks put in my hair last year and I LOVE them?!!! <br />I LOVE my purple streaks!! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">My joyful woman - me before I discovered peanut butter snickers bars, lol. </span></td></tr>
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So, I had a pattern on freezer paper and cut out her arms and legs from that fabric you see above. I carefully positioned the portion of the pattern for her head on part of the batik fabric that had flesh tone flowing into purple. I used a white marker here and there to highlight and probably used a purple marker to darken and streak her hair. I might have used a sand colored crayon to add more flesh tones. I know I found a rose crayon or something to lightly color her lip area but she's pretty non specific in her features. Her dress is a separate batik that I used Inktense Color Blocks on to make more purple and pink so she wouldn't be washed out by the ferns. <br /><br />Let's face it, I had help from above! </div>
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<br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ok, on to the background. It's NOT pieced!! It's appliqued on a foundation of... you guess it, Pellon EK130. I wonder if I should become a spokesman for that product or buy stock in it!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">My floor, Pellon EK130, my iron and batik hexies</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> So, I cut out a gazillion hexies. I have so many left over I'm going to make another quilt when this one is done. I put my foundation down and arranged the hexies starting at the bottom and working up. The foundation is 20 inches wide so I overlapped it a bit when I started adding the sky fabric which you can see in the next pic. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Adding the sky</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">See that overlap of the foundation? It's about 1/4 to 1/2 inch I think. I'm standing on the top (sky side) taking this pic so the green isn't showing in case you are confused. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Almost done</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I decided to cut up more hexies and finish off the edges so they would be straight but I didn't bother taking a pic for you. I also used a long ruler and measured the straight parts of the hexies to try to keep them aligned properly. Once the foundation was filled I pressed them in place using steam and stitched down the raw edges using monofilament thread and a tiny zig-zag stitch.<br /><br /> Now, on to how I made the curly tree. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Once again I made a freezer paper pattern of my tree. (You can see my graph paper drawing/sketch in the back as I was figuring out sizes and placement, etc.) Anyway, notice all the hash marks between the branches? These are very important because I have to take the pattern apart to create the tree and then put it back together again to recreate the tree on my quilt. </span><br /><br />(PS. Isn't my ironing board cover ridiculous?! I don't even bother buying them anymore because I go through them like water. I paint on them, fuse on them, use markers on them, use glue on them, lol. Now I have an old stained tablecloth and throw it into the wash every now and then! But I digress)<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">So, I cut apart my freezer paper pattern and each piece becomes a different branch and a different color with darker values toward the top of the sky. Sort of. </span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I found it helpful to put up pieces to visualize color dancing around in the branches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Actually what you are seeing is the exact opposite of what the the tree will look like. Why? Because you are looking at the wrong side of the freezer paper patterns. Don't think about it too hard, it will give you a headache. It's giving me one now, lol. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I like to use Liquid Thread or Liquid Stitch when I can because it seals raw edges and it's fun. It's a thick fusible glue. I left the freezer paper on the right side of the branches, 'painted' on the glue and let it dry. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you go to Labels on the right side of my blog you'll see Liquid Stitch and you can read about how I use it. It's great for when you don't want seams from patchwork to show through your applique or you don't want loose threads from unraveling raw edges. It does NOT work well on small appliques though so I only use it on the big stuff.<br /><br />When all the branches were dry again, I reassembled my pattern, making sure all the branches were in the right place. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The tree, all put back together only there is fabric under the freezer paper</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Notice those hash marks in the pic below? They helped me figure out which curly branch went where and I made sure they were all aligned properly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> At this point I slipped fiber glass pressing sheets under the branches and fused the branches to each other. I arranged the tree and fused it to the quilt top. Then I stitched the tree into place using monofilament thread and a tiny zig-zag stitch. Whew! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Welp, that it's for me. Now if you look closely, you'll notice there is a 'hole' in the tree between the purple and blue branches on the right. Why? you might ask? Because my son and I were taking over coffee one morning last month - did I mention my youngest son moved back home? no? oh. Well my son moved back home last fall. <br />(Cooking, thy name is Cathy.)<br /><br />Anyway, we were talking about a specific kind of bird and it's symbolism and I realized that I had to have that bird in this quilt. It's a bird which symbolizes rebirth and rising from ashes (dust!), and it's a bird with multi-color wings. So I made a bird and it's going to be flying up from from the tree.<br />Hopefully I'll be able to show you soon.<br /><br />I'm also going to start working on leaves for the tree.<br />And a few butterflies. 🙂<br /><br />Sorry if this blog has been too long, I guess that's what happens when you've been storing things up for months and months. Comments are welcome as always!</span></div>
<br />Material Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207955801104019255noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936994744919625087.post-85409746564223238942019-03-08T09:41:00.000-08:002019-03-08T09:41:32.217-08:00The Cliffs of County Kerry, Ireland - Done<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It's been a few weeks (or months?!) since I posted and I finally finished the Cliff landscape I've been working on for so long. I have a couple of close-up shots to show you and this will be a short blog I'm afraid. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I used Intense Color Blocks to change the color of the water print fabric I chose and to add the white water at the base of the cliffs. From the last blog you'll read that I used the white color block and drew it on pretty darn thick. Alas, the stuff kind of powdered away as I worked on the quilting. </span></span></div>
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So, I put it on again only not so thick and I used a fabric medium to help it blend and be permanent. This still didn't quite accomplish what I wanted so here and there in the foreground water I used a white acrylic paint with a fabric medium and that worked well. (I put it on after the quilting was finished.) </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I quilted the water in long wavy lines with little hooks here and there. Nothing brilliant but the quilting part of making my landscapes is not my strong suit.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My confetti worked out pretty well didn't it?! During the quilting I made tiny loop da loos in a rich pink/magenta variegated thread to bring out the heather color.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When I quilted the cliffs I chose a variegated gray thread and just followed the lines in the rock formations.<br /><br />I said it would be a short blog, didn't I? This is it. I feel lame for not having more for you but family issues have kept me pretty busy and to tell you the truth I'm a little tired.<br /><br />I have started thinking about what I'm going to do next though. We must have ideas to ponder when life gets too busy for the actual sewing business! </span></div>
Material Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207955801104019255noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936994744919625087.post-68136608753513444972018-12-19T08:02:00.000-08:002018-12-19T08:02:04.198-08:00Kerry Cliffs - The Quilt Top is Finished<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> I've put together the foreground of the landscape and thought I'd show you how I did it. As of now, I've started stitching down the fabrics but this blog will be looking back on how I created the confetti foreground. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">I'm stitching down the bigger patches using a small zig-zag and monofilament thread.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When I began work on the foreground hill I started by pulling out all the fabrics in my stash which might be useful. I also printed out a photo of an Irish landscape where the heather is not completely spent. If you go back to my original photo a couple of blogs ago you'll see that the heather on the hill was all golden brown. </span></div>
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Well I toyed with the idea of making it purple and violet as if it was in bloom instead of spent. Hence the purple flower prints. You'll see a few grass prints in the pile as well. I also toyed with the idea of putting boulders in the foreground though there were none in my photograph of the Cliffs. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> In the end I decided to use the distant meadow print below as a foundation for all the other prints. It was too golden though so I painted it! Once again, I used Inktense Color Blocks and splashed on a few greener colors. You can see the difference in the photo below but I admit is isn't all that much. I wish now I had added more green, oh well. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Added green paint on left, original fabric is on the right</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Adding the Inktense was soooo easy! I just used a bit of water and dabbed on the color here and there! This is a great product. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">It's a little dark because it is wet</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Figuring out the confetti colors</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">After playing with cutting up bits of the purple flower prints I decided I didn't like it. I felt that the deep blues in the water would pop and sing more with golden and rose tones in the meadow. Conversely that the golden and rose tones in the meadow would pop more with the blues in the sky and water.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I also decided against adding rocks. The cliffs are pretty striking and I thought that if I added rocks and more elements in this foreground hill/meadow that it would take away from the impact of the cliffs. Guess what? As I look at the landscape now, I wish I had added rocks. Ugh.<br /><br />So, on to the confetti! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">I used brown tulle on the bottom and yellow tulle on the top in this batch of confetti</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> When I make confetti I use 2 layers of tulle and 2 layers of a water soluble embroidery stabilizer. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">In this in example I used Sulky Solvy. (Yay for JoAnn's and their 50% off coupons!)<br /><br />I put down a sheet of the Solvy, put the first layer of tulle on it and LIGHTLY sprayed with 505 Basting spray. I cut up my tiny - less than 1/4 inch bits - of fabric using my rotary mat, ruler and a sharp cutter. Then I sprinkled the confetti on the tulle.<br /><br />You have to play around with the tulle to get the right colors. If I had used 2 layers of tulle which were both green or both brown the confetti would have been too dark and it wouldn't have blended into the landscape.<br /><br />After the confetti is sprinkled on the tulle you layer the other piece of tulle on top and another layer of Solvy. Then you pin all the layers together - lots of pins so the confetti doesn't slide around under the tulle. When you are done pinning it's time to sew through the layers and all you have to do is sew a tight stipple in a blending thread color. I use a light weight variegated thread for this and chose one that went from green to red to brown in light to medium values. You can hardly see the thread.<br /><br />After the sewing is done, rinse away the stabilizer and messy cut shrubby shapes out of the tulle.<br /><br />Also, sometimes less confetti sprinkles is better. When you look at the pic below you can see that the heather is pretty dark and thick - it doesn't look like it is naturally part of the landscape does it? This is easily fixed though by making MORE confetti, lol.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Confetti is a bit dark and thick - </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">There are places where the heather is darker and thicker than other places (in my original photo), so these confetti patches can still be used. All I had to do is make less dense confetti on lighter tulle. </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When I finished this batch (sprinkling, pinning, sewing and cutting out messy shrubby shapes), I arranged these lighter confetti patches on the outside of the thicker ones from before. Viola! it all blends together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> I used darker grasses in the foreground and added tiny yellow clumps of flowers to resemble the gorse bushes in the Irish landscapes. I also added some darker patches of a distant meadow grass here and there to break up the monotonous base print grass. (Is that clear as mud?)<br /><br />If you look at the above pic carefully you'll see what I mean. It's that dark green and golden short grass that is kind of cut in a zig-zag shape. For as natural a look as possible I needed to break up that background print and add some different grasses and texture.<br /><br />Lastly, I needed to add those rocks on the bottom left and all the whitewater surrounding them. I cut out the rocks from my freezer paper pattern (see last blog or two) and fused them onto the ocean water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When I painted the Wild Atlantic at the base of my cliffs I knew there would be white water in this spot so I painted some background white on using - guess what? - my Inktense Color Blocks.<br /><br />After I fused on the rocks I sprayed this portion of the landscape with water. (That is why it is darker blue around the rocks - that fabric is wet.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Please remember that I've never used these blocks before so you'll have to cut me some slack. (I've never really painted anything before... I'm a material girl. 😁)<br /><br />Inktense are water soluble but I didn't want the paint to blend and spread out so I directly drew the white waves onto the damp fabric. In some places I blended and rubbed it into the fabric with my finger but in others I left it on pretty thickly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When I drew on the white water I used a lot of squiggles and made sure that every swipe of the color block was made in a curving motion. I feel like I did a good job. Oh, I also smooshed some of the color block onto the rocks to add to the splashing waves effect.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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It's a busy time for me and I'm snatching minutes here and there to keep stitching down the layers. OH - I should mention that I attach the messy cut patches of tulle by tucking bits of Wonder Under under them and fusing them down - using a pressing CLOTH and steam. The fragile tulle melts if you look at it wrong and steam is what activates the Wonder Under hence I use a cloth and not a fiber glass pressing sheet when I do this part.<br /><br />All the patches should get stitched in place and I like to do this before the quilting to keep the back of the quilt tidier.<br /><br />Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all.<br />Happy Quilting! </span></div>
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<br />Material Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207955801104019255noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936994744919625087.post-62485162174101190902018-11-29T11:55:00.003-08:002018-11-29T11:55:48.116-08:00Kerry Cliffs - Still working on them!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kerry Cliffs</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Yay! I'm mostly done with the quilt top now. I need to add rocks in the water at the bottom left and I still have to fuse everything down, but the bulk of this landscape is done.<br />Whew! </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I thought it would be helpful for you to see some of the fabrics I used making the cliffs and rocks. I used the front and the back side of a few of these fabrics and I used a few markers and a little light crayon.<br /><br />The fabrics with striations worked wonderfully for portions of the cliffs. There was a question or 2 about how I'm doing this, so here is a step by step so you can figure it out.<br /><br />I'm going to build the bluff on the upper left.<br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Upper left green bluff - it will have rocks and water in this pattern piece.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I chose the wrong side of a mottled green print to form the basis of the distant bluff. First I cut out my freezer paper pattern (see last blog). I pressed it to the right side of my fabric - which is in actuality the wrong side of the print. </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">I cut out the distant bluff shape from the green fabric. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Now, I'll start at the bottom and work my way up. The very bottom is shore line. I compare the freezer paper shape to the shape I have on the poster size image of my photograph. (See last blog).</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">My freezer paper pattern pressed to the green print foundation</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I'm starting with the area to the right of my finger -</span> </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Shapes on the freezer paper and the photo guides the colors and prints I choose. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I've cut out the freezer paper - the first piece. It's part of the shoreline so I find the fabric I want and press the paper to the right side of the prepared fabric. (This fabric has a paper backed fusible web on the back; either Wonder Under or Steam/Seam Lite.)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The freezer paper is your template so cut out that shape</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Peel off the paper from the back of the fabric, arrange it on the green/foundation and fuse it in place.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Fuse the shape to the green foundation</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Not EVERY piece needs to get cut out individually. This next piece has a slightly gray triangular area in the upper left. I'm not going to bother cutting out a slightly darker gray for that area. When you see this piece on the photo below you can see that it is just a bit darker . </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">First, I cut out the shape and choose a gray rock print</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> The rock print is prepared with a paper backed fusible web. I don't press fusibles to most of my fabrics until I'm sure they will work - I press them on as I go. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Fuse on freezer paper pattern and then cut it out and fuse it to the green foundation.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The rocky coast is in place</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Once the gray is fused on the green print foundation I cut out the slightly grayer portion of the freezer paper, hold the remainder of the pattern in place and lightly color that portion darker with my marker.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Done with the gray</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Time for the next piece of fabric - this will be green mossy grass stuff - </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">I continued to build the landscape bit by bit</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Work is continuing </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">All done -</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Once I finished with the distant hills I put everything together to see how it looks. This is always fun as I see all the sections together for the first time. </span></div>
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I hate the sky. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Blotchy Blotchy Blotchy Sky</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> I'm sorry the colors are off on some of my photos. I've been taking pics as I go with my cell phone which captures great details but the color is wrong. I have a mid range digital camera but it doesn't capture detail as well... it does a bit better with color. </span></div>
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Anyway, sky prints run salvage to salvage meaning that if I found the perfect sky print I still couldn't use it because it would only be 44" wide and this quilt is over 60 inches.<br /><br />One other thing to keep track of is that the sky needs to be in the same color range as the water. The two have to blend to look natural. (Unless it is an aqua blue glacier fed lake.) </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The distant water and this sky print looked pretty good together after I painted the water a bit.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I bought some Inktense Color Blocks from Blick Art Supplies and I love them. I've never used them before but they were easy to use and there are a lot of you-tube videos showing you how you can apply them to fabric.<br /><br />What you see below is the water print I chose for this landscape. If you look close you can see a 2 inch strip that is a little different in color - it's about half way down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> The water print was pretty gray so for the strip of distant water I just wet it down and lightly painted it with a bit of aqua blue color. This color is translucent so the texture of the water comes through it wonderfully. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">My paint set up - that portion of painted fabric that you see here is from the bottom of the landscape where the see is darker and it is also wet so it looks even darker still. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">These are the colors I bought from Blick. I didn't buy sets, just individual colors and made little color charts to keep track of which colors go with which blocks. </span></div>
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I painted the water. Under the fabric is freezer paper to protect the surface of my table from turning blue. I put the freezer paper plastic side UP so it stayed smooth and kept the blue water paint from seeping through. </div>
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To start I thoroughly misted down my fabric. It was wet. Then I put a little water in my paint cups and mashed the end of a color block in the water. I also used a wet brush to brush off the end so I could get paint into the water that way. </div>
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Then using a good size paint brush I painted color onto the water print. I used several different blues and if the blue went on too strongly I misted more water on it to dilute it.<br /><br />I also kept the darker blues from the edges near the shoreline and I used a white color block to make those areas lighter still.<br /><br />Here is the top portion of the ocean - under the green bluff I just made - and you can see the before and after pics of the painted fabric.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Remember, I hated that sky print... so I found another. This was just a mottled light blue print and I used the same colors on it that I did in the water so they blended. I was a little nervous about all this because I've never painted before. I made the cloud shapes by using the flat of the white color block on wet fabric and then lightly smoothing it out with my finger in a circular motion. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Making clouds</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The fabric is drying now and looks a bit darker than it will be once it's dry</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In case you are wondering what those darker hill shapes are at the bottom of the sky it's the Dingle Peninsula. On a clear day you can see the bluff shapes of the cliffs there across the Atlantic ocean.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">That water looks pretty good!!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I've never painted before and it was instant gratification time when I put cliffs on top! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Done with the water and sky!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The last couple of weeks I've been working on the foreground hill and the white cap waves. I used a white Inktense block and bold swirly strokes to make the white water. (See below.)<br /><br />The foreground hill gave me some stress because none of my landscape prints looked quite right cut out and appliqued. In the end, I used some of my grasses and yellow flowers but decided to make my own heather using confetti. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The work so far</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">If you go back to my last blog to see my inspirational photo you'll see that the heather was pretty brown. We visited the cliffs in September and missed the blooming season but I wanted a bit of the pretty color so I improvised and made some the bits of confetti out of brown and gold and some out of rose colors. I also used some brown and gold markers on the grasses in the foreground. The yellow flowers are gorse bushes. (If you want to look at some serious eye candy use google images for heather and gorse - the colors are so pretty together.) </span></div>
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Actually, I think I'll show you more precisely how I made this foreground in my next blog. I think I took pictures of the process, lol. I remember I slightly changed the base gold meadow print to a green color with paint, too... hmm, better go back and look at my cell phone pics!<br /><br />And that's it for me.<br /><br />Comments welcome! </div>
</span>Material Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207955801104019255noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936994744919625087.post-16082637283287552012018-11-01T08:07:00.003-07:002018-11-01T08:07:28.940-07:00Kerry Cliffs - Another Quilt in Progress<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Kerry Cliffs, County Kerry Ireland, Ring of Skellig</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yikes it's been a long time since I shared what I've been up to here! Hubby and I went to Ireland in September and had a glorious marvelous wonderful time there. He did all the driving and we went to as many places as we could go in 2-1/2 weeks. If you remember what happened to us a year ago in Ukraine, then I'm sure you'll understand it when I say that this vacation was so sweet that I feel like the pain of last year has been forgotten. God blessed us. Big time. </span></div>
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I had so much fun making The Narrows (Zion) last spring and summer that I decided to try that technique again with one of my favorite photos from Ireland.<br /><br />I resized my photo and printed it out poster size. This will be a bigger quilt... I think 60 x 40 or so. Anyway, I taped all the pages together and traced the major portions of the cliff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I started out tracing the larger formations and then decided that I needed to trace more details. (Too many details is better than not enough when creating a landscape with this technique. Stay tuned and you'll see why.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Once the poster was traced, I taped it to my sliding glass door - it didn't quite fit of course. I wonder if I can build a bigger door in my next house and claim a 'business expense'?!😁</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Next step is to create a big sheet of freezer paper and tape that over the poster - </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Lots of work. Lots. Of. Work.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And now the tracing begins. It took quite a few hours! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I rotated the above pic so you can see what is going on a bit better. You can see all the detail I traced and as I build this landscape I can decide if each and every little shape I traced will be a different piece of fabric, or if I can lump pieces together because I found a perfect print for that space.<br /><br />In my work space I have the poster hanging, and I made detailed colored photographs of the landscape to help me choose the right colors. Also, the poster size is washed out and I needed the photographs to help me choose the right value and colors of the fabrics. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Along side my messy table I have these leaning on the wall - both poster and detail photos</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ok, I assume you are still with me? Below is the poster and my drawing. Now do you understand why I need the photos and posters right in front of my eyeballs?! That line drawing I made tracing the cliffs needs 'directions' and I compare the pattern I drew to the poster/photographs and figure out where I am in the building process. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The next step is to trace the major formations. I'm going to be building this landscape on a foundation - this time NOT the Pellon EK130 like The Narrows (Zion). Why? Because this one is too big and too complicated. I figured I'd use a fabric foundation and build all the sections separately. I thought if I chose the right foundation fabric then the tiny little pieces from my freezer paper pattern wouldn't have to be cut out, the background fabric would do. <br /><br />Once all those sections are done I might fuse them onto sheets of the Pellon to hold them all together. We'll see when I get there. (I'm winging this quilt again... )</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> What I'm doing is cutting out each portion of the cliff face. You can see below that I chose a background print for the center face and I pressed the freezer paper pattern to it and then I'll cut out that whole piece. I do NOT remove the freezer paper from it, rather I start at one end and cut out bit by bit of the pattern choosing the right fabrics and fusing them on as I go. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> You can see in the photo below how I'm building the landscape. I cut out portions from the freezer paper pattern and each shape becomes a template. (Sorry about the shadows in the photo - I have direct floodlight/overhead lighting in my sewing room and can't do anything about it. (I'm in the basement...) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If I had the perfect fabric with those striations that you see in the freezer paper pattern that I'm holding, then I could make that whole pattern piece out of one fabric. Alas I don't. Sooooo, each one of those horizontal shapes will be a separate piece of fabric.<br /><br />I cut out each shape from the freezer paper and press it to the TOP of the fabric I choose. (The fabric will have Steam a Seam Lite or Wonder Under on the other side.) Then I cut out the shape and fuse it to the background fabric.<br />(See below)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Once I get the fabrics in place, I blend and shade using white and gray fabric markers. I also use sharpies... I press using a hot iron so I'm not worried about the sharpies bleeding. Plus I doubt I'll be soaking this quilt when I'm done.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Work on the middle cliff face. (The trickiest one if you ask me!)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> There is an old song I love - it was sung by Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger - it was written by David Mallett. It's called Garden Song and maybe you remember it? <br />The chorus goes like this - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Inch by inch, row by row</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Gonna make this garden grow</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Gonna mulch it deep and low</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Gonna make it fertile ground</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />It's really a cute song. John Denver also sang it. Anyway, that is the way I'm thinking about this quilt. Inch by inch I'm building the landscape.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> And the middle one is done. I'm having a heck of a time getting good photos of this quilt, they are all turning out to be washed out or too white. But, you can kind of see how it's going. On to the next portion...</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Let's do another cliff face!<br />*Snort*</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the privacy of my blog, can I admit that I'm rather sick of creating cliffs?! <br />Thankfully, I'm about done. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And that's it for me today. As I look at my photo here I'm thinking that the far right is too dark. (There is a double meaning here, considering the events of the last couple of weeks here in the US. The far right is WAY too dark - that kind of hatred I just can not understand. Yuck.)<br /><br />But enough of that. I'll keep working on my garden and building my quilt as I pray for our country and for leaders who will build people up instead of tearing them down and that insults and fear mongering will give way to kindness and respect for each other.<br /><br />Boy - I sure took a different turn didn't I? Guess you can tell what's on my heart. Today I'm off to Madison to visit my mom and to use a gift certificate at a quilt shop there. I'll be back with the top part of the landscape soon. I'm saving the water for last because I'm freaked out about making it.<br /><br />Yep, that's me. Freaking out and going for it anyway. Sometimes I think I'm addicted to stress!<br /><br />Comments welcome and happy quilting everyone.<br />😊</span></div>
Material Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207955801104019255noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936994744919625087.post-61489417679216314412018-06-22T07:36:00.001-07:002018-06-22T07:36:58.215-07:00The Narrows - Zion National Park. All Done. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I'm finished! All that is left is sewing on a sleeve and a label. </span></div>
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There are some detail shots of the quilting in this blog but that is about it. (It will be a short one!)<br /><a name='more'></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The quilting was fairly simple - I just echo quilted the different pieces of fabric I had appliqued. I used 40 weight variegated threads for most of the quilting.<br /><br />I saved the water for last because I knew that was going to be harder to figure out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Making waves turned out to be quilting around the places where I had painted on the white foam. To quilt it I used a variegated blue thread with lights and medium values and a very light blue/white. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And there you have it. 😊😊<br /><br />I'm off to Shipshewana, Indiana tomorrow to pick up a couple of my quilts and to see the show. Road trip - yay! <br />I'll take pics for you and make another blog when I get home, from past visits to this quilt show I know there will be some awesome quilts on display. <br />(I won a couple of ribbons there and am very happy about that!)<br /><br />Now that this quilt is done I'm waiting for inspiration for the next. As usual I have lots of ideas but nothing has grabbed me yet. Plus, it's summer so I think I'll spend some time weeding, planting and walking my dogs. (That didn't come out right, lol.)<br /><br />Bye for now! </span></div>
Material Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207955801104019255noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936994744919625087.post-1801882103454373512018-06-01T07:57:00.001-07:002018-06-01T07:57:32.980-07:00Zion Narrows - Confetti Trees and Liquid Stitch<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I'm happy to say that the quilt top is done. It's trimmed and ready for basting. In this blog I'll show you how I made the confetti trees. </span></div>
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />When I left you after the last blog I had used Liquid Stitch to glue down the main portions of the landscape. Before I started on the confetti trees I stitched down the edges of those main portions using monofilament thread and a tiny zig zag. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, let's make some confetti. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> What you are seeing above is one layer of Sulky Solvy with one layer of yellow tulle on top. I have tiny tiny bits of fabric confetti from a few assorted batiks - the pieces of confetti are smaller than 1/4 inch - many are about 1/8 inch. I sprayed 505 Basting spray over the Solvy/tulle and began sprinkling the confetti on the tulle. </span></div>
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Because the tulle effects the color of the final product the first thing to do is find the right tulle colors. You want the tulle to match the background as much as possible. The first tree I created had a light background so I used one layer of yellow tulle and I'll be putting one layer of a light green tulle on top. </div>
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When I created the confetti leaves for trees which had the dark rocks behind them, I used black tulle for the base and layered green tulle over the top. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> You don't want to sprinkle the confetti on too thickly. The bits of fabric tend to stick together so I used a tweezers to smooth them out and separate them a bit. Notice some areas have more dense sprinkling than others. You want this. Why? Because you can use the dense confetti patches where there are more thickly leaved boughs in the canopy and use the less dense patches on the edges of these boughs - just like nature. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Once the confetti is sprinkled down, cover it with another piece of tulle and another piece of Solvy. Then pin like mad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I experimented with different ways of sewing down the layers and you can see my first experiment below. I used a messy back and forth on one part and a loop-da-loo on the other. I didn't like the back/forth stitching and the loop-da-loo was ho-hum. For all the rest of my confetti patches I just used a small stipple with a variegated green thread.<br /><br />If you go to my landscape quilt gallery and click on Sunset Sentinel you'll see another time I used this technique to make lacy leaves. When I created the tree in Sunset, I used lots of tiny loop-da-loos. The tree is more stylized with all those tiny circles. I didn't want that look for this quilt. Hence my choice to just stipple. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Once the confetti/Solvy layer is rinsed and dried you can start to cut out messy shapes and create foliage. Before you do that though, you want to have the tree trunk in place. Some of the patches you create for the tree canopy will be arranged under the tree and some on top so let me show you how I made the tree trunks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> If you've been following along on my blog you'll know that I'm following a photo I took while hiking The Narrows. I traced the tree from the photo onto tracing paper and then traced the tree patterns onto freezer paper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Press the freezer paper pattern to the right side of your fabric.<br /> Roughly cut it out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Smear Liquid Stitch all over the other side of your cut out shape. The stuff goes on really thick so I used a cheap kid's paint brush to smear it on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Once it is dry, use a fiber glass (Teflon) pressing sheet and press it. The glue smooshes out and becomes clear. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Once you've pressed it flip the tree around and cut it out. The freezer paper might come up here and there, but not all that much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Liquid Stitch seals the edges of your applique. It's a great way to fuse on delicate tree branches and your appliques really don't fray as much with this product. I've used Steam/Seam, WonderUnder, etc and there is a bit of fraying on those edges, this product really makes a difference. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It's easier to shade and highlight the tree before it is put in place so I did. The light is shining down on the left side of this tree and the right is in the shade. I used a handy Sharpie and a light/white marker that I found in the scrap booking sections of Michael's craft store. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> When I begin to arrange the tree trunks and foliage, I lightly press the top of the tree with a hot iron. This somewhat activates the glue in the Liquid Stitch, but doesn't make it permanent. I do this so I can slip messy cut portions of the confetti foliage under the branches if I want. I build up my trees as sort of a collage.<br /><br />Let's look at some closeups.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> The small tree on the left was in the sunlight. I used lighter shades for the confetti. I used a glue stick to glue the messy cut bough shapes to the quilt top. Then I went over those patches with a white marker to highlight some of the 'leaves' and I used a green fabric dye marker to shade the boughs under the branches.<br /><br />Between the different colors of tulle and the markers I have a somewhat natural looking tree. Here are 3 more trees- <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The trees on the right are in the shade. I used darker tulle, darker confetti bits and just a little bit of white marker here and there. The photo isn't the best... sorry about that.<br />(I really don't like my camera. It's a Cannon Powershot and it doesn't do a good job of capturing sharp images nor does it have a good white balance which means my colors are always off on all my shots and I have to try to correct them.) </span></div>
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I should mention that throughout all this tree making and water making and canyon making I have been using green or red value finders. I've compared the values of the fabrics I've chosen with the values on the photograph.<br /><br />This means that though there might not be huge value changes between my trees and the canyon walls, my trees are faithful to the photograph.<br /><br />So, after all this, here is my finished quilt top and the photo I used to create it. The water is the only thing which isn't quite right, but on the whole I really like my landscape. Mine is more colorful than the original but that is ok - I was limited by the fabrics which are available and I like color.<br /><br />Perhaps if I had found a better fabric for the water I could have done it better, but it is what it is and that Stonehenge fabric was pretty darn close. (You'll have to go back a couple of blogs to see it untouched.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I may go back and fuse a few tiny leaves here and there on the trees on the right, but that won't be a big deal. I think I might also go back and add some green to the distant water. <br /><br />I'm hoping that I'll have time to baste and start quilting this weekend.<br /><br />In the meantime I hope you've enjoyed watching the progress on this landscape quilt. Comments welcome.<br /><br />Happy Quilting </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />Oh - I really need a better name for this quilt.<br />Hint Hint<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div>
<br /><br />Material Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207955801104019255noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936994744919625087.post-45718307817115040542018-05-18T06:29:00.003-07:002018-05-18T06:30:19.335-07:00Zion Narrow Continuing - Adding Grasses<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This short blog is just to show you that I have done a little bit of work on my quilt. I've been teaching this week and came back from classes with a bad headache - lasted for days. Yuck. This is why there is hardly anything to show you today... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Before I start on the trees I needed to create some background foliage. Most of it looks like grasses from the photograph (see last couple of blogs, I didn't bother to add it to this one.) </span></div>
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What you are seeing in the above shot is 2 layers of AquaMelt stabilizer with 2 layers of tulle sandwiched between. This technique works best if you try to match the background of the grassy patch with a tulle color. (Which I did not do in the above sample. This is a case of 'Do what I say not what I do, lol.')<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I didn't fill this in thickly because I wanted the background to show through a bit. Plus, when I quilt this piece I'll be adding more thread to the shape. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">For the small grassy patches in the canyon walls I just scribble stitched and cut out small shapes. I also made some clumps for here and there on the beach - <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> The next thing to do is to fuse all the pieces of this landscape together. I'm building it on Pellon EK130 but this stuff doesn't seal any edges very well. To minimize the thready look of raw edge applique I'm going to use Liquid Stitch. This is a fusible glue - it goes on very thickly so I smear it with my finger. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> If you look at the 2 photos below, I'm showing you the large pieces of applique. I'm going to smear glue on the wrong side of these pieces. Once it dries I'll press them using a fiber glass pressing sheet and the glue will smoosh out over the edges of the applique. </span></div>
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Then I'll trim off the thready edges and excess glue, arrange the pieces so they overlap nicely and press them together and down on the Pellon foundation. I love this glue. No thready raw edges! </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Here is the small part of the upper canyon wall on the left. I've pressed it to the fiber glass pressing sheet and now I can cut off those thready edges - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The last pic for today is just a closeup of the water and the foliage as you enter the canyon in the back. The water still isn't quite right, but it isn't as turquoise as it was - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And that's it for me today. I'll finish gluing all the patches down and start on the trees next week.<br /><br />Happy Quilting to you! </span></div>
<br />Material Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207955801104019255noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936994744919625087.post-25207919292665301702018-05-04T08:09:00.000-07:002018-05-04T08:09:12.404-07:00Zion Narrows Continuing <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> In my last blog I showed you what I've been working on lately and today's blog is showing you the continuing work. Soooo, by way of review the photo above is my original photo, the one below is my edited version. (I didn't like the big sand bank in the original.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This next photo is where I left off since my last blog. I had finished the golden canyon walls and the shaded deep gray walls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Let's get started on that last canyon wall. Here is a detail shot from my poster sized photograph. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> As you can see in the photo, there is some stripey action and that canyon wall is a mix of deep reds and light gray. After MUCH debate and searching for the right base fabric, I ended up using the gray/red multi batik as my base fabric. Before I get to the lower part of that wall, I had to do that brilliant upper part. I had to make sure I could blend the part on top with the part on the bottom! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Double checking - can I blend these two prints together? </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I decided I could. So I built the upper part of that wall using the striped batik on the upper left and adding small bits of other prints to the base amber print that you saw in the 3rd picture in this post. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Close up of the upper part of the wall - and the next piece which will need to blend the intense colored portion into the gray canyon wall which will be that batik I showed you.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I used a lot of crayon color on that amber print I used as a base. I used a deep brownish purple batik to add the shadowy patches and then I went over it all with white marker so it looks a bit like light shining on the rock face.<br /><br />Now on to the lower part of the wall and blending the 2 portions.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">First - add orange to the stripey batik</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I cut out the stripey batik so the stripes would mimic the angles in the photograph. Then I played around with my crayons and markers until I got the colors right. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you read my last blog, I believe I mentioned that I'm winging it. I've never done anything like this before. Well some of you asked me some questions about using crayons and I figured I'd do some googling to make sure I wasn't -<br />A. Poisoning myself (or you!) with melted crayon toxic fumes and <br />B. That I was using crayons the best way so I wouldn't give you bum advice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I read a bunch of tips and a few people suggested using a LOT of white crayon on fabric first so it would settle into the pores of the fabric so the next colors would go on more smoothly. I tried it out and I think it does help the other colors go on. You need a LOT of white though. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Lightening the batik with a ton of white crayon and melting it in - </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> If you look back at the photograph, you'll see that the top of this wall under the golden shading was quite light. I lightened it up big time and then I added some golden brown under that top patch to blend the top patch into the light portion of the canyon wall. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">You can see the golden amber color I shaded under the top piece</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> The next step was to cut out some of the crevices from the freezer paper pattern. (See last blog for details on this pattern).</span> </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">I knew where that crevice was going to go so I shaded a bit with my chestnut crayon underneath it. Then fused it on. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I also added that darker gray stony patch that is naturally part of this canyon wall. Once again, look at the photograph and you'll see it. Also, notice how it is pretty horizontal across the wall? I originally arranged that separate patch in that same formation. I hated it.<br /><br />Mother nature can get away with things and make them work. I can't. I added more gray above that shape to make it look more natural. Yep, more natural than mother nature!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Finished that wall -</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I get so involved working that I forget to take photos. You saw the batik though and I used a LOT of white and gray crayons and markers to wash out the some of the red. I also added a gray Stonehenge rocky print and used markers and crayons to blend it into the batik base. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The rocky floor of the canyon starts - </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The base print I chose was actually from a weird sky print. I liked the sandy color and the shaded areas could look like there were rocks? Maybe? </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White marker time!! </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I lightened one side of this print and used a gray marker or crayon - can't remember - to darken the other side. Then I got out two rock prints from my stash.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">One print too dark, the other print too light!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I lightened the dark print and using markers and crayons colored stones from the light print. There is a fusible behind this fabric, so I just cut out and arranged rocks. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Closeup of the sand bank rocks</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I did add some curvy strips of another sandy print just for texture and a bit of different color. I also lightened up the top of each rock with my marker and shaded the bottom of each rock with a sharpie metallic gray marker. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Next - that water. Egads - making water!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I had 2 prints I thought would work. The distant water was a bit of a pain because it was too light so I kept coloring it with sandy amber and an olive green crayon until I got it to work. It had to be a little deeper value than the sand bank so I lightened up the sand bank a bit and darkened the water a bit.<br /><br />The foreground water is an old Stonehenge print. I suggests water to me - water with rocks under it.<br /><br />In case you are wondering why there is a T-Square there, the water print has to be perfectly horizontal in the landscape. Remember I'm building this on a fusible foundation so when I press it into place it has to be perfect. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">White washing water</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I began to play with cutting out bigger rocks and realized I was going to have to change that Stonehenge water a bit. It needed white water in some places and deeper blues in others. I began by painting over that print with a mix of acrylic white paint and a fabric medium. (Liquitex). I painted 'comma' shapes and then used a bit of water to blend them into the print. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">All lightened up with suggestions of ripples</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> The next thing to do was add deeper shades of blue and I used a simple blue watercolor paint to do so. Once again I painted 'comma' shapes and blended them with water. Unfortunately, I did not choose the perfect blue. My water is more cerulean than the photograph. Sniff... this doesn't make me happy. RATS. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The shore under the rock -</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> There is washed up sand and small rocks under this big boulder so I shaded in some chestnut and green to mimic that look. There is some deep shade there so I used a black marker on the edge. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The water -</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I don't know why but there are two closeup shots of the water so I might as well post them. </span>🙂</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Water close up</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I added some narrow wavy light pieces to mimic whitewater around the rock on the other side of the shore. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Making large rocks - these are my fabrics</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> I had a really large rock print that I didn't bother showing you - it was Michael Miller's Just Rocks if you remember it. I used that print for the boulders on the bottom left. I used the wrong side and added color with marker and crayon. </span></div>
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The other rocks were made from that same batik I used on canyon wall on the left and a blue green rocky weird print I had in my stash. You never know when you'll use strange prints and this one worked great blending in rocks that looked like they might be in or just above the water. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I think I'm done for now though truth be told I might do down to my sewing room and see if I can add more more navy blue to the water so it isn't so turquoise. I kind of hate to touch it though! I'm always telling hubby not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good and it might be time to take that advice myself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Today I'm cleaning up my room and getting ready to teach a couple of classes. When I get back, it will be time to figure out how to make the plants and knit them into rock walls and how to make the trees. I'm sure I'll be using fabric confetti for the leaves it's just a matter or figuring out how. I do not want to sprinkle it on the landscape and use tulle to hold it in place.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Seriously, I may have to go down and see if I can add some navy blue to this water. </span></span></div>
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Ugh. If wreck the water that will be a disaster.<br />Decisions Decisions<br /><br />Until next time - Happy Quilting!<br />Comments welcome</div>
</span>Material Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207955801104019255noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936994744919625087.post-51598097122284191252018-04-20T08:18:00.001-07:002018-04-20T08:18:12.077-07:00Zion Narrows Landscape<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I wasn't planning on making another quilt so soon, in fact if you looked at my last blog I think I said I wouldn't be making another quilt so soon - I wanted to work in my yard and walk my dogs and enjoy spring. Well, winter came back and just dumped another 5 inches of snow so as I was stuck inside I figured I'd make a landscape.<br /><br />I also wanted to do something completely different.<br /><br /></span></div>
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The photo above is a shot I took a few years ago when hubby and I hiked up the Narrows in Zion National Park. You know how I made Gene Kelly in Gotta Dance? (By the way I just won a 1st Place ribbon on it at MQX New England!!!! I was THRILLED.) I also made Mary Poppins in a similar way - I made freezer paper patterns of them from photos and used those patterns to create the figures. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Long story short - I thought "</span>why don't I try doing this with a landscape?"</div>
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I started with the photo above but didn't like that middle area where there was too much beige beach sand area in front of the small tree on the left. I chopped it out and came up with this changed photograph. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> It was a high resolution photo so I converted it to a pdf file and printed it out as a poster. I think it printed out like 14 sheets of paper or something. I taped the pages together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> The next step was to tape it to my light box, ie. my sliding glass door and trace the thing on freezer paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> It took me a couple of days to finish tracing all the shapes in this landscape. I didn't bother tracing the tree because I knew I'd be adding it in after the landscape was pieced together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Here is the pattern and the poster on the floor in my sewing room. (Notice how clean the floor is around it, lol. That will change!!! I'm a mess maker when on a roll.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I pinned my poster onto a small design wall thingy and propped it up in my work space and began to pull fabrics from my stash.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I'm building this landscape on Pellon EK130 foundation. It is a tricot knit interfacing which has a fusible on one side. I found a large board, put the foundation on it and placed my pattern over the foundation. The foundation only comes 20 inches wide so I have a long strip of Wonder Under holding two sections together. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> It's kind of fun that there is a face on the pattern, but that won't show up once the quilt top is done. The shading is wrong and there will be a tree in front. But still, it was kind of fun - do you see the face? It's on the right in a profile. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I decided to start in the center because if there are any shifts in the way the landscape is put together the shifts won't be off that much... you'll see what I mean as I go.<br /><br />In the photo below you can see the first golden rock face in my canyon. You can also see some of the fabrics I used to make it and you can see crayons and markers that I used to subtly change colors to make them more dynamic.<br /><br />That white marker is invaluable! You find them in the scrap booking sections of craft stores like Michael's or Hobby Lobby. I use it a lot! I can make a whole patch lighter and then use a marker or crayon to change the color on top of the white ink. I use it to blend in darker fabrics by lightening the edges of the patches so they blend in more with the surrounding prints. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Some of the fabrics I used to make the golden wall</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here is a closeup of the wall -</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Close- up</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Let me explain a bit of how I'm doing this. I started by cutting out one large rock formation from the freezer paper pattern and picking one print which will be the base for all the rest of the patches. I choose this print based on a couple of things; first the value of the print - it should be a medium value, and second - that print should look natural in the background of all the other patches. Not EVERY patch that I drew from my pattern needs to be cut out and fused to this background print so it's easiest of the print has some natural movement and flexibility... ie. does it have a mix of values? Does the print have an annoying repeat? Does the print have lighter and darker portions that I can cut out? I found the perfect batik base for that rock wall. A golden one with shadowed areas. (It's pictured on the right 2 photos up.)<br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Dark rock face</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Above you can see my larger freezer paper pattern and how I cut out a base fabric. The fabric was pretty much tone on tone so I used my trusty white marker and brown and black ones to add more color. It was pretty dark fabric so first I lightened it with lots of streaks of white and then I went over the white with brown marker. I mimicked the striations on that patch of fabric that you can see in the poster/photograph.<br /><br />You can see that the bottom of that larger freezer paper pattern has another shape I need to cut out to create the right shading. So, I cut it out.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Shape at the bottom of that dark bluff</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Once I cut out a shape I back it with Wonder Under and fuse it in place. Let's look at a big canyon wall now - </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The BIG one</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> So, the biggest rock face was made from a blackish charcoal batik. Here it is - notice it has some lightish areas and some darker ones. Oh, you can also see all the shading/highlighting I did with my white marker on the left side of the dark wall.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Rock face base</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Below you can see that I began to cut this freezer paper pattern out by cutting the long dark shadow - this patch will be black. By keeping the uncut portions of the freezer paper pattern in place, I know exactly where to place each small patch that I cut out. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">First patch will be added in the empty space</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Next rock shape</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I continued to cut out and fill in that rock face with other prints. If you go back up to the poster/photo you'll see that this dark bluff had some browns in it, also most of this lower part of the bluff was behind the tree so I just guessed a bit and added color and texture. I did not want to leave the fabric here plain even though I knew a tree was going to go here. Why? Because I don't want to back myself into a corner. Perhaps when I got to the tree I wouldn't want it to be so big? If that would be the case, I'd be stuck because I'd left that rock face undone.<br /><br />The rock face on the lower right (above) was the wrong side of a gray bark print by the way. I worked on it in a hotel room in Iowa and didn't take any pictures of my progress but you'll see the final product at the end of my blog here.<br /><br />Anyway, let's start on a tricky part. That blue/gray rock on the upper left. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Another day another rock! </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To show you more detail about how I'm doing this, let me remind you of the rock face I'm making - </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Gads this looked a little intimidating when I started!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> It's a blue/gray, it is shaded on one side more than the other, it has tones of reds and browns here and there and it looks cracked. YIKES!<br /><br />Taking this one step at a time, I decided my base would be this textured ombre print - it has natural shading and a somewhat craggy texture. (I think I lucked out actually!!)<br /><br />When I go shopping for fabric for my stash, I buy lots of 1/4 yard pieces. All these prints in my stash have enabled me to pull off this landscape so far. I've been quilting for nearly 30 years making landscapes in different styles so I have many prints to choose from these days. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Base fabric</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I folded it over and put it in place to double check that this print would work. It will. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Yep, that is about right.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I positioned the pattern such that the left side of my rock face was more in shadow than the right side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> When I cut out the base prints I usually add 1/4 to 1/8 inch extra to the edges because they will need to overlap a bit with the other major formations in the pattern. I also wrote a bit about the colors on the pattern so I kind of knew what color needed to go where. Sometimes it gets hard to keep track of where you are in the pattern/photo as you cut up the freezer paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">From the poster/photo you can see that there are some gray granity portions running down this rock face. I chose a Stonehenge granite to make those patches. Notice how incredibly different the textures are from the base to the granite print. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, here is my messy stained working place with the pattern and three portions that I cut out from the stonehenge print. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">This mess is on my cutting board, but if it was a nice white cover it wouldn't be for long!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The granite looked like this - remember, I use the larger uncut portion of the freezer paper to show me where to place the small cut out patches. These small patches are fused on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the photo above, there are 2 granite patches. The top one is plain and the one underneath is one that I touched up using my white marker and a bit of blue crayon. Look at the difference. I used the white on the outside and made whitish blob shapes here and there on the inside. Then I went over them with a blue crayon and heat set the crayon with a hot iron.<br /><br />That little dark slip of rock on the right was created in a similar way only I used orange, blue, brown, etc. To tell you the truth, I just kept at it until it looked right. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Putting the rock back on my board I added other patches using white and gray as needed. I brought in some red batiks, some mottled light gray prints, and then I used crayons to bring in more shading. I used a lot of the white marker to highlight and blend. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I'm working from the top down; here is what I have so far - you can see the gray, the purple, where I've used the white, etc. Because I made a pattern of the shapes and colors, I can place these patches exactly where they need to go so my rock will look like the photo. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Working on down the rock</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Below is the finished rock - whew!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">All done!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The canyon so far </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> This is about where I am in building this landscape. Oh - you can see the finished rock on the bottom right now. I'm very pleased with the way the landscape is going! I've never done anything like this before and I've discovered that it is a lot of fun! It's challenging, it's step by step slow, but the results are pretty cool if you ask me. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Close-up of the blue/gray rock face and the golden wall</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> If you look closely at the above photo you can see how I used the white marker to blend in the portion of the granite on the golden wall. You can also see how I cut small patches from the same light batik to create the illusion of light shining down on the upper middle portion of the golden wall. As much as I possible can, I'm following my pattern and the photograph. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There is pretty intense color on the upper left and I'm hopeful that I can make this amber print work as a base. The last rock wall on the left might be the hardest one? I don't know... I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. I was up in the night wondering about what I can use as a base when the color from top to bottom in the rock wall is so different.<br /><br />Time to get back to it. Zion is an amazing gorgeous park but it is very very crowded and they are having to turn people away at times now because there is no place for them to park their cars and the shuttle buses are filled. Hiking through the water up the narrows was one of the best experiences I've ever had in our parks and I'm happy to be able to make a landscape to reflect all the beauty we saw sloshing our way up the canyon.<br /><br />Happy Quilting Everyone!<br />(Comments/questions welcome) </span></div>
Material Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207955801104019255noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936994744919625087.post-37649991788265673792018-03-30T09:02:00.000-07:002018-08-19T05:19:31.999-07:00Spring Hardwoods<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Will wonders never cease - here I am updating my blog after only 1 week! Yay me! However, you might not hear from me again for quite a few months - I want to repaint my bathroom and spend more time outside for awhile. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I just finished this wall hanging for a class sample so I thought I'd show you how I did it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> So, for me the hardest part of putting these landscapes together is finding the right fabrics. Often I have bolts of leaves that haven't sold well and then suddenly the right batik comes along and viola, I can use up the leaves making kits. </span></div>
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If I ever quit teaching - and some days I think I'd like to quit - it's mainly because it is such a pain always looking for fabrics that go together. You might not realize it, but I have to buy bolts and then often I sit on them until I find other fabrics which go with the bolt I bought... etc.<br />
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And then there is the serious problem of finding appropriate leaves. Natural leaves are the hardest thing to find and I just don't understand why manufacturers won't make more of them. The leaves you'll see me add at the very end of this project are like 4 years old now and I bought 3-4 bolts of them at the time. I'm down to one bolt now and then I'll be stuck if nothing else has come out.<br />
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And to make matters worse, I run a very small online store so fabric representatives don't meet with me. This means I have to order most of my stuff online and often the fabrics aren't quite what they appeared to be when I get them.<br />
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Ok, complaints over. But maybe you'll have a better understanding about what it takes for me to come up with class projects.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Like I said, I need fabrics which go together. Luckily, I had 4 fabrics in stock now that all went together and went with that light background batik. When making a landscape like this, the darkest values - or most intense colors - need to go into the foreground. I blended two all-over tree prints and used a little bit of a rich pink meadow floral to create the foreground and mid-ground. The white and pink all-over trees fade a bit into the distance because they are lighter values. I used the right and the wrong side of the rich pink floral.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> I used a plain brown bark fabric for the tree trunks. (If you noticed, I changed out the tree on the right because it was too skinny. While a skinnier trunk would have been fine, I have branch patterns and the branches can't come out of a tree trunk that is nearly as skinny as they are.)<br /><br />One of the things I enjoy most is highlighting and shading using markers. The two I like most for making highlights are the ones pictured above. The Recollections marker can be found in the scrap booking section at Michael's. The Galaxy marker is also in the scrap booking section but at Hobby Lobby.<br /><br />I make lots of long white streaks to create my bark and then I go over those streaks with black and brown sharpies - or a fabric dye marker such as Marvy or Ushida. (Sharpies can bleed I've heard but I've never experienced it because I press with a hot iron and I think this must set the dye.)<br /><br />I pretend the sun is coming in from one side of the landscape so I keep one side of each tree lighter than the other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> I don't blend in my marker streaks - those long streaks look like bark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Next step is to add some distant foliage and these patches must blend into the background. Did I mention that I was lucky to have coordinating leaves with this batik?!<br /><br />I messy cut some background shrubbery and clumped them together to suggest that there is a tree or sapling back there.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I think of working on things like this as a bit like making a collage. I don't worry about overlapping shapes and prints and I glue patches to the background using a simple glue stick. (I like Elmer's the best because it's nice and soft.)<br /><br />I do want to blend in some darker values in the canopy so I brought in a darker tiny leaf print. I use the front and the back of fabrics whenever I can. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Once I have everything glued down, I fuse on the branches. (These are patterns I supply with the kits in class.) Often I'm asked why I don't fuse down everything and it's for 2 reasons. Adding a fusible behind everything might build up too many layers in places and the quilt will be really stiff there and won't hang right. This is especially true of the tree trunks. If you fuse them in place then right down the center of your quilt will be a layer of stiffness that no amount of quilting will fix. The quilt will not hang flat on the wall. </span></div>
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I fuse on the branches because the fusible is spread out over a wide area and won't effect the drape of the quilt. Plus, they are skinny and can unravel easily. The fusible makes them more stable.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> More fun ahead! I learn so much from my students and when I taught this class in Kentucky a few weeks ago, one of the ladies there was a painter. When we got to the place where we were coloring branches, she began highlighting them using a circular motion around the branches. (When I watched her I was amazed and couldn't wait to get home to try her technique out!)<br /><br />If you've seen the way I color branches by checking out my boards on Pinterest, you'll see that I did something new here.<br /><br />(I really like it!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I highlighted the top of each branch and used a dark marker to shade the underside. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This was a small quilt - about 18 x 30 inches or so and I really liked it so I added borders to make it bigger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Then of course I had to add more leaves in the border. I love these leaves! <br />(Only one bolt left - ugh!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Hubby is a hydrologist with the US Forest Service. He had classes in dendrology and we could never figure out what KIND of trees these are. Not maples - the leaves aren't right. Not oaks for the same reason. Not bassword. Not elm - the bark is wrong. I'm too fussy about being accurate and that is why I'm calling it Spring Hardwoods - why not?<br /><br />Well, that's it for me!<br />Comments welcome and happy quilting. </span></div>
Material Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207955801104019255noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936994744919625087.post-29769082637066916642018-03-23T07:36:00.000-07:002018-03-23T07:36:15.374-07:00This and That<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> It's been a month or so since I've blogged so I thought it was time to show you what I've been up to. Since finishing the Sunset at Mohave Point landscape, I haven't wanted to do anything big so I've been finishing up small projects and making a couple more for class projects. <a name='more'></a></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Adding a border</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I never did finish First Light - a project from my Strip Applique class and as I considered how to finally finish it, I decided I might as well put borders on. You'll notice the quilt was already trimmed on the edges...<br /><br />I figured there had to be a way to do it, so I started by sewing border strips on the back. I used a scant 1/4 inch seam and sewed a strip on </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">What is looked like from the front.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Don't ask me why I'm showing you the pic of the back border strip - I think because I'm figuring this out as I go. Oh I know - so you can see the scant seam. <br />Anyway, I turned that back strip back and sewed on the front border strip using a 1/4 inch seam. (So the front border strip would hide that seam from the back border strip - see I'm thinking ahead, lol!) </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Adding the front border strip</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> What you see in the following pic is both border strips pressed to the right so they are in proper position. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Once the borders were sewn on 2 opposing sides I slipped in a strip of batting and fused it in place using BoNash Bonding agent - a powder I could just sprinkle on both sides of the batting strips and fuse with a hot iron.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The batting is now fused between the 2 border strips on the sides</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The next step was to do the same thing - sew on the top and bottom border strips - </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Line up the top/bottom border strips - sew with a scant 1/4 inch seam</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Once the top/bottom border strips were sewn in place I tucked batting in between and fused. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The back of the quilt</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">A corner from the front of the quilt</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> This is a pretty cool powder. I wonder if it could be used to baste small quilts - I'll have to check it out.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">All done</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> So, I sell landscape fabric - I have an online store in case you didn't realize it. A few weeks ago an order from Elizabeth Studio finally got here and I wanted to use the 2 floral fabrics in a spring scene. (One was forget-me-nots and one was morning glories.) <br /><br />This is what I came up with - I'm calling it "Spring Meadow" because I'm creative like that. (Snort).</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">I pulled some fabrics and figured out how to arrange them - </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> If you know my quilts, you know that I usually choose some pretty colorful/intense fabrics when I'm making a stripped landscape. Well, I had a problem this time because those warm and beautiful apricots and oranges overwhelmed the blue forget-me-nots. I HAD to choose softer muted colors for the flowers to pop out. In other words, they disappeared when I started trying to put apricot/orange in the sky. I kept the flower fabric and the leaves I would use right next to my landscape as I designed it.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">In progress - sorry about the shadows</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> This is pretty much what I came up with. The muted soft colors in the sky make this pretty peaceful actually. I usually prefer to work with batiks using this technique because they don't unravel as easily. It's hard finding light soft batiks in sky blue colors though. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> OH - in case you don't know what I'm doing, this is strip applique. It's taught in my book Lovely Landscape Quilts.<br /><br />*Shameless Plug Warning* <br /><br />Basically you arrange raw edge strips on a fusible foundation (Pellon EK130), slightly overlapping them as you go. Then fuse them in place. Because they are overlapped, only 1 raw edge remains per strip and these are stitched down using monofilament thread with a small zig zag. When the quilting is done you barely see the monofilament thread.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> This rancher's wife has a small garden area looking out over their pastures. (The cows are in the upper pasture today.) To keep them out of her garden when her husband brings them down she had to put up a fence. I thought what the heck, why not make it a corner garden? Hence the rails go down on the right side. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> So, I like dahlias. What rancher man would try to grow them? Not one I would imagine, hence my invention of the rancher's wife. She doesn't have enough to do and the family has plenty of raw steak to stuff in the ground next to them. <br />(I think that is how you fertilize dahlias - right?) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I've always loved morning glories and the first few landscapes I ever made had them climbing up tree trunks and stumps. I'll have to include pics of them at the end of this blog - they are so old I wonder if I still have them somewhere. Hmm. </span></span></div>
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Material Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207955801104019255noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936994744919625087.post-56305984574911541312018-02-10T06:53:00.003-08:002018-02-10T06:54:30.990-08:00Sunset at Mohave Point - All Done<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> This is going to be a short blog - I'm just showing you the finished quilt. Yesterday I cleaned my sewing room and took some pictures for the show circuit. Today I'm off to visit family and then next week I hope to start on another landscape... just don't quite know what I want to do! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> In my last blog, this quilt was being blocked. I had steamed the heck out of it and it was 'setting/drying'. The next step is to square up the corners and make the sides even, etc. To do it, I just dragged my cutting mat under the quilt and used my husbands T Square. (It's mine now... I doubt he misses it, lol.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> So for some dumb reason when I blocked my quilt, one side was 1/2 inch shorter than the other. Time to stretch out that short side! I pinned both sides together and then pinned them to the floor again and steamed it. After setting/drying over night, both sides are the same height. (40 inches.)</span></div>
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<br />Material Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207955801104019255noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936994744919625087.post-86276300754718227872018-02-02T08:07:00.000-08:002018-02-02T11:09:48.581-08:00Sunset at Mohave Point - The Quilting is Done!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Soooo, I thought to myself "The quilt is basted to the backing so it shouldn't shift too much, why don't I soak some of that glue off before I quilt?" It seemed a reasonable thing to do, right? </span></div>
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Plus, there are a lot of very bold colors and and the backing was going to be a really intense deep red batik. (I pre-washed that baby in HOT water and did extra rinses and soaks to mitigate red's tendency to bleed.) I knew there would be bleeding if I soaked my quilt in a normal way during the blocking process so I knew it would be rough to try to dissolve away the glue then. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">After it was dry and fairly straight again I drew in some canyony quilting lines with a blue washout marker. These were more like guidelines because heaven knows what would happen once the thing was balled up under my needle. (I do all my sewing/quilting on a domestic machine.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> And below is a closeup of some of the quilting. I had washed out the blue lines so the quilt is darker than it really is because it is wet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I blocked this quilt using a LOT of steam. Between all the long horizontal quilting lines in the sky and in the shadow areas in the canyon, plus the canyon formation quilting lines; this thing was pretty ripply. I pinned it in place making sure the height was the same on both sides. Then I used a wet press cloth and full steam in my iron and pressed the thing. I really steamed this baby!<br /><br />And there you have it. Today I'm going back to the quilt store here to buy more of the backing fabric. I didn't buy enough to make a faced binding and a sleeve so I figure I need another half yard. Once it's done I'll show you the back- I changed bobbin colors but it's pretty subtle.<br /><br />Oh, I forgot to mention that once the canyon quilting was dry again (after I washed out the blue marker), I used a faded gray marker to slightly shade the major rock formation lines at the back of the canyon. If you look carefully you can see it in the first pic at the top of the blog.<br /><br />Happy quilting everyone!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> It's been a heck of a last 3 months but hubby is up and back at work half time now. Thank you for all the encouragement you've given me since the last blog and I'm happy to be back to work myself! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I started this quilt last August before we left for Ukraine, I just never had time to show you what I was working on after I finished The Perfect Nanny (Mary Poppins). By the way, I sent it off to the National Quilt Museum where it will be part of their traveling exhibition for the next 2 years. Maybe you'll be able to go to an AQS show and see this added exhibit? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Years ago I was able to spend one day (one day! only!) at the southern rim of the Grand Canyon. Ted and I walked along the rim trail at dusk and then sunset. I found a good place to take some photographs and the photo above was taken just as the sun was setting and the rays highlighted the canyon formations. The light was just right and the rocks glowed and turned red.<br /><br />I knew I would one day make this scene into a quilt so the first thing I did was crop the photo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> When I started back to work on this quilt I had a few problems... first was that I was out of room on my design wall so a lot of my strips were bunched and hidden. The second was more complicated - I didn't like the lack of depth or the lack of 'edges' in my rock formations. If you look at this (above) pic and then compare it to the photo, you'll see what I mean. The main bluff shape looked like a breast and it lacked dimension. Third - I didn't think the sky looked right.<br /><br />The first thing I needed to do is adapt my basic pattern and draw more specific shapes into the bluffs.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is my adapted pattern - I carefully traced the major geological rock formations onto my graph paper. I had chosen to make this strip pieced quilt using a strip width 'rhythm' of two finished 3/4 inch strips and then a 1/4 inch strip. So as I adapted my pattern I drew a line halfway through each square on my graph paper. I didn't bother trying to do anything with that 1/4 inch strip. Each full square on my graph paper represents 1-1/2 inches in finished strips.<br /><br />If you look carefully at my pattern, you'll see that I numbered each strip. I stopped at 28 because that was all I could fit as I drew my fold/sew lines on my tear-away foundation. (See my book and other blog entries here for how I piece straight strips on a foundation. Click on "strip pieced" from the Labels section on the right side of my blog.)<br /><br />I've never made a landscape quite like this one before in terms of it's complexity. I had to measure carefully and keep track of exactly where one rocky crevice would begin and one would disappear into the shadows. If you care to see this more clearly, look at my quilt Carpathian Mountain Sunset - you can find it in my quilt gallery. In that quilt, the mountains are simply blue and the crevices are only created through quilting lines. I wanted something more for this quilt.<br /><br />This is how I accomplished it.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Ok... This is what you are looking at above. It's the bottom half of my canyon partially pieced. You'll notice the long horizontal fold/sew lines that I drew using my cutting mat and ruler and a pen. I wanted two 3/4 and one 1/4 inch finished strips so when I drew those long lines I drew 1-1/4 inch, 1-1/4 inch and then 3/4 inch widths. My landscape is 60 inches wide by the way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Now, I'm going to glue strips of fabric between these lines. Then I'll fold along each of those long lines and stitch 1/4 inch from the edge of the fold, with me?! (See book, lol). Because of the precise nature of this landscape, I had to take that 1/4 inch seam allowance into account as I created each bluff/crevice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">You can't imagine how hard it would be to piece this precisely using traditional piecing methods. (And I kind of hate piecing anyway!! Shame on me, I know. Still, for me piecing is the boring part of making a quilt...)<br /><br />So, I fold under edges and applique complicated strip segments - I'll show you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> When sewing or putting two different strips of fabric together, one strip is always on top and one on the bottom. This is the same with sewing the angles together; look at the seam, it's always pressed one way or the other. So, as I designed each bluff/crevice I glued down the center of the strips of fabric which would be on top and then I turned under the edges of that strip and glued the angle in place using a simple glue stick. <br /><br />In other words -<br /><br />I glued the edge of the top strip under so it wouldn't be raw edge and trimmed off the excess fabric. Then I glued that top angle to the strip beneath it.<br /><br />Clear as mud?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> I could peak and lift up the background strip (the burgundy one on the right) to make sure I had folded the angle correctly and placed it correctly on top. Remember, the seam allowance of the top strip's angled edge is glued under so it is not a raw edge. The burgundy edge is a raw edge but it will be tucked under the lighter bluff strip so that won't matter. Once I had the strips exactly where and how I wanted them, I glued the top strip over the background strip.<br /><br />Bit by bit, I created the Mohave Point view from my photo.<br />Next step-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> If I haven't lost you altogether by now the next thing to do is to stitch each of those glued angles to the foundation. You must do this BEFORE you fold and sew along the grid lines because these angled edges are a little stiff and they can lift up off the foundation. I stitch these down so they stay precisely where I want them to stay. </span> </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is what the bottom of my foundation looked like before I finished sewing along the horizontal grid lines. Kind of weird, huh? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">This is the next step - fold and sew along those grid lines. Stitch using a large needle and and tiny stitch. I use a 1/4 inch foot. You'll notice in the picture below that I'm sewing one of the long narrow 3/4 inch drawn rows that will finish into a 1/4 inch strip. I align my sewing foot with the LEFT side of the previous seam and that is how I get perfect 1/4 inch rows. </span></span><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1LZdiAikqMM/WleMHz2iK3I/AAAAAAAAF7M/dm6oLrSYgD4YIqvljGuHJB2fY1OVnUIzQCLcBGAs/s1600/13GC.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1201" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1LZdiAikqMM/WleMHz2iK3I/AAAAAAAAF7M/dm6oLrSYgD4YIqvljGuHJB2fY1OVnUIzQCLcBGAs/s640/13GC.JPG" width="640" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Remember way back when I said there were a couple of problems with my initial rough draft? One of them was running out of room on my design wall. Now that the bottom is pieced I have more room and it is as I suspected - the sky is all wrong.<br /><br />Mother nature can get away with a lot that I can't. It looks like a normal blue sky on a summer day only the canyon is way shadowed... rats.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">A friend suggested that I tip the sky upside down and put the darker part next to the canyon. I did so - using photo software and this is what that looked like - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It turned out to be a helpful suggestion because it was clear that I needed darker values at the horizon line. In my photograph of the canyon, the sun is actually setting far out of the picture on the left. The sky being what it is - big - is still light in my photo but I had to express the idea that the sun is setting and casting shadows in the canyon. I reworked the sky and came up with this - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> I cut another piece of foundation, drew in my grid lines, finished the top of the bluff and transferred my strip segments to the foundation. (See below.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And here is the quilt top after I finished sewing it all together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> I needed to fix a couple of things - I had to add to the top of the grayish shadowed formation on the right. I also needed to add a narrow band of descending highlighted red rock into one of the shadowed areas on right. I fused on these pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And there you have it!<br />It's been a complicated blog... but this was a complicated landscape. I bought a bunch of cool thread, lots of new needles and a marking pen so I'm ready to start quilting.<br /><br />Just need time.<br />I hope you like it! Comments welcome. 🙂</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I've spent the morning trying to put the last few months of my life into perspective as I go through my photos from a trip we took in September to Ukraine. Hubby went there to teach about how the US Forest Service manages their watersheds and I went along to be part of a Carpathian/Appalachian Mountain Cultural Exchange - they wanted me to bring some of my quilts. (You might remember that my Carpathian Mountain Sunset was inspired by Ukrainian photographer Leonid Tit's photographs.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We flew to Ukraine and spent a few days there before we split up. He taught at a couple of Universities and I got to go to Hungary which was just a few hours away. It was an amazing time! Eger was a beautiful little city and I wish we could have spent more time there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The streets in this part of the city were filled with little shops and lots of goodies to buy and eat. It's so nice to walk along a street and not have to worry about cars. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We couldn't stay long in Eger because we needed to get to Budapest that day. I was traveling with 2 friends, one who works with the international forest service and our guide and driver Igor - a wonderful young man from Ukraine who was also our translator.<br /><br />We arrived in Budapest in time for some wine and cheese on a plaza outside the Cathedral. I couldn't believe how wonderful it was. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> We walked the roads and a bridge over the canal at night and I tried to capture the scenery with my little camera. Everything was lit up and gorgeous!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The next day my guide and I trekked over the bridge and up the steep hill to look over the city. The pic below is of their Parliament building. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Surely this has to be one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. We walked back on another bridge and came right up to it - and to the monument built to remember and make tribute to the fallen Hungarians when Soviet Russia invaded in 1956. Many pro-democracy demonstrators were slaughtered as the Russians mowed them down with machine guns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> We were only able to spend one day in Budapest and then it was back across the border to Ukraine. We saw all sorts of things in Ukraine, from the forests to the cathedrals. It is a gorgeous gorgeous country rich with farmland and the people were so wonderfully friendly! (I had a translator remember.)<br /><br />Alas it rained a LOT the first few days we were in the countryside and we were on the road a lot so I couldn't get good pictures. Their little villages are all built around beautiful orthodox churches. Imagine it, those ornate steeples with a backdrop of evergreen trees and mountains. Definite quilt material!<br /><br />One of the places I want to show you is called the polonyna. Far above the cities in the west are alpine meadows of the Carpathians. These are grazing areas for sheep, cattle and goats. We spent time on the polonyna in 2 places. One above Yaremche and one above Rakhiv. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Here are some photos from the polonyna. These are the Carpathian mountains and they are a lot like our Appalachians. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">There is an interesting story behind these hay stacks. The women - I was told the older women - hang on to that birch pole in the middle and walk in a circle around it while men lay down clumps of hay in front of her. She packs it down as she walks and the stack grows higher and higher. (Heaven knows how granny gets off the top - these things were way over my head!) </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We had fantastic multi course dinners at the couple of farms we visited at the top. This one is at a 'hotel' or kind of resort? above the city of Rakhiv called Rakhiv Plai. The food was to die for. Fresh homemade everything from smoked sheep cheese, fresh mushroom gravy, sausages, smoked meats, bograch soup, great cabbage salads with fresh dill, etc. And salo. Lots of salo.<br /><br />Salo is raw pig fat that is specially seasoned. It sounds disgusting doesn't it? I loved it - especially the smokey flavored fat. It reminded me of bacon.<br /><br />I would have spent time looking for a Ukraine cookbook in English but disaster struck. At this point in our trip though as I look at the photos I remember what fun we had and in my pictures I'm smiling. Even as I write up this blog, I can't remember feeling happy and carefree on this trip - it's been a long time since I felt that good.<br /><br />I have a couple of links to sites which talk about Ted's work in Ukraine in case you are interested.<br /><br /><a href="http://rakhiv-mr.gov.ua/appalachi-karpaty-rehiony-rozdileni-okeanamy-ale-obednani-hirskym-stylem-zhyttya/" target="_blank">Rakhiv Newspaper - I'm in this one. </a><br />You'll have to use the translate to read it - it's in Ukrainian<br /><br /><a href="https://www.fs.fed.us/inside-fs/watershed-management-exchange-ukraine" target="_blank">Chief's Newsletter - Forest Service</a><br />In this article Ted is pictured with </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Lesya Loyko, one of the sweetest women I've ever met. Her parents had us over for tea when we were in Uzhgorod - you'll see a pic of their 'tea' in a bit.<br /><br />After traveling in the country, we arrived in Lviv. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Up up up you go and then you get to High Castle where you can get 360 degree views of the city of Lviv. Lviv is smaller than Kiev and is less traveled.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> It's beautiful old Europe though and the main square in the city is a United National Heritage site. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> While Ted was teaching, my guide took me all around the city. I went into cathedrals, underground coffee mines (!), and even a Cat Cafe. The underground coffee mine is funny - they set up a fake mine and have coffee beans on the walls. They do serve you coffee that has been lit on fire if you order it. That was great coffee - it's topped with sugar and they light it on fire with a blow torch at your table! It was too dark to take pictures... but here is ONE counter from the Chocolate Factory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">One of the places I wanted to visit was the Lychakiv Cemetery, established in 1787. I roamed about the paved trails and took quite a few pictures of the statuary for possible quilt ideas. Yep, quilt ideas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In the US we aren't often told about the fighting that is going on in East Ukraine. The Russians have sent troops over the border and are trying to take over more of Ukraine than the Crimea. Ukraine has only been free since the early 90's and this fledgling democracy can use all our help. This section of the cemetery is dedicated to the soldiers who lost their lives defending Ukraine in the last few years.<br /><br />Back to the inside of some of the cathedrals in Lviv.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I caught the light just right didn't I? A happy accident! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Whenever I go into one of these awe inspiring cathedrals I feel like our church building at home has lost the idea of trying to capture the majesty and mysteriousness of God. You know that these buildings are not like any other place on earth; they are set apart for very special reasons.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Lesya's parents invited us over for tea. This is what they served!!! Imagine being invited to tea and then walking in a home to find this spread arranged just for you. They fed us for several hours, these were only the first few courses!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We also explored some old ruined castles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Do all castles have legends? This one holds that an evil rich woman owned it and that she was so jealous of young beautiful women in the village below that she'd bring them up and throw them off the high walls.<br /><br />I have no idea if this is true or not. (I can't imagine the men in the city would have let her do it more than once that's for sure.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Well, now we get to the part where our time there went from a rather exciting adventure to disaster. It's quite shocking how you can go along and then in the space of a blink of an eye be plunged into a nightmare of stress and trauma.<br /><br />On September 30th Ted was going down marble stairs to the location of his workshop and he fell. He landed on his left knee and ripped the tendons which hold the quadriceps muscles to the knee cap. Not realizing what he'd done, he tried to get up and fell again - this time landing on his right knee and he then ripped those tendons away from the kneecap.<br /><br /> He was taken by ambulance - cash only to pay for it- to the local hospital, given pain meds and his legs were stabilized. He spent the rest of the day in an unheated dark hallway in that hospital. (Which had dried bloody bandages from God knows when laying on a cart next to him. When the doctor said that he'd need surgery and it couldn't be done in Ukraine I remember thinking "Thank God". I had been preparing to step in and say NO to having surgery there.)<br /><br />I couldn't go in the ambulance and had to take a taxi to the hospital. No one spoke English and it took me a long time to even find him there. I more or less wandered around asking everyone I passed if they spoke English... If I had gone tourist shopping like I had wanted to, I wouldn't have had cash to pay for the ambulance and Ted would have been stuck at the bottom of those marble stairs for another hour or 2 until I found a cash machine. A cash machine where directions were in English. God was with us!<br /><br />After spending the day there, he was transferred to a little clinic close to the down town area and it turned out that this nice CLEAN clinic was only 3 blocks from my hotel. <br />Another God thing. They kept him doped up and comfortable.<br /><br /> 2 days later we were MediVac'd to Berlin for surgery. While we waited, I needed to repack all our bags and ship them home - cash only. The jet to Germany could only take 1 small piece of luggage. I don't know how I could have coped without a translator. We found a cash machine and it took 11 withdrawals to get enough cash to pay for shipping our big suitcases. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Here is my poor guy. The plaster went on the back of his legs to keep them from bending. Once he was done with surgery they put him in these velcro leg braces (see below). He had surgery the day after we arrived because it was a holiday in Berlin - the fall of the Berlin Wall - and that was a day they hadn't scheduled many surgeries. They got him it that quickly because of this. (Another God thing).<br /><br />They did the surgery at night and kicked me out of his hospital room right after they brought him back. He was in agony and they wouldn't give him pain meds until the anesthesia wore off. I took a cab to my hotel and just bawled.<br />By the time I got back in the morning he was on narcotics and feeling no pain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We were in Berlin for 9 days. During that time I think I met 2-3 people who could speak English. Plus, my cell phone wouldn't work in Germany. I had to have everything written down to show the taxi drivers where I needed to go. Some people say that since the hospital - which was the Helios - was in old East Berlin and not West, that that is why there weren't many English speakers there.<br /><br />Because Ted was in such good shape, they had him up and walking a bit after a couple of days.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The hospital was a lonely place at night. I took a cab to and from my hotel every day and I never met a cabby who could speak English. This was one of the most stressful things I've gone though - alone in a country where you don't know the language. It's like right out of a nightmare. At least German uses the English alphabet though, in Ukraine I had no idea what signs said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">After 9 days in Germany, we were put on an ambulance and taken to Frankfurt. From there we were sent home on a plane with special seats that could recline all the way back. He still can't sit up for very long, he needs to stand or recline most of the day. We arrived in Chicago and then an ambulance took us home to Wisconsin. They got him onto our futon and I let the dogs in. There was much rejoicing!</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Since then we have put in a hospital bed and I no longer have to lift him up. Unfortunately he developed an infection in his right knee so for a week he was on antibiotics and twice a day I had to drain the fluid out of his knee through an incision they cut into the top. After more than a week, he still had a fever and that meant back to surgery to clean up the inside. <br /><br />Once they opened him up they found that the infection ruptured the sutures and his tendon had to be reattached once more. Soooo, about 3? weeks ago he had to start over with his right knee.<br /><br />On the bright side, his left knee is getting back to normal. Almost. He can go up and down stairs and bend it enough to get in and out of cars, etc. more comfortably. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yay - he can step up on one leg now!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">My life now has revolved around my husband's knees since Sept. 30th. I've learned to build fences, winterize lawn mowers, put air in tires, chop down small trees - use power tools!, etc. All those little things he used to do around the house, I'm doing as well as my normal around the house work. (Cooking and grocery shopping - yuck!). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's been rough.<br /><br />One highlight was a friend's gift of a box of chocolates from England. This is a woman who knew what I needed! (I'm giving her the little quilt pictured below as a thank you gift. THANK YOU Hannah! )<br /><br />We've made it through the worst of it now. I hope. We've had friends praying for us and we so appreciate it. I'd like to say that the end is in sight, but it isn't. It will be a long time before he can go to work, sit in a chair comfortably, before he can drive, and before I get back to a normal routine. Actually, I think this is my new normal.<br /><br />I've finally caught up on enough stuff that had to get done around the house to get back into my sewing room and I finished this little landscape. </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">So, in case you've been wondering what happened to me.... now you know. I haven't dropped off the face of the earth. Yet.<br />If this keeps up I might start jumping though.<br /><br />There are a lot of things to be thankful for, I'm reminding myself of these as I mention them to you. Clean hospitals. Enough money to pay for ambulances. An international program to help us when we get into difficulty overseas. (International SOS.) Good doctors and surgeons. Friends who help whenever you ask. Recovery - even when it is slow it is steady. A son who came over to help haul away tree trunks and branches and clean the gutters. (I'm afraid of heights). Furry pets you can hug and pet when you need comfort. A sister-in-law who stayed with our critters and kept them happy and healthy. Chocolate. And most especially God who was watching over us and made a way through the storm.<br /><br />I'm not sure when I'll blog again but hopefully it won't be as long. While I was gone The Perfect Nanny won 2nd place with the MQX Quilt Festival and was accepted into the National Quilt Museum's New Quilts from Old Favorite Contest. My River of Life quilt also won a ribbon at the AQS show in September.<br /><br />I'm hoping to get back to work on a strip pieced quilt of the Grand Canyon at sunset soon. Maybe even this week?<br /><br />We'll see how it goes. Thanks for reading this whole thing. Keep Calm and Carry On has been my mantra for the last few weeks and probably will be for the next few as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> I uploaded some pretty large images so you can see how I quilted it. I use a little machine to quilt and it was a bit tricky quilting large wind swirls when your quilt is all bunched up in 7 inches of quilted space...! But, here is the first detail photo. This is Big Ben and the blowing wind. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> I only quilted the wind swirls on the left side of the quilt - to emphasize that she flew away on that west wind. (Or east wind?) Anyway, the next pic is of the right side of the quilt - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The lyrics of the song The Perfect Nanny are so sweet that I thought the title of the song would be perfect for my quilt.<br /><br />In case you don't remember the song - </span></div>
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Wanted a nanny for two adorable children</div>
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If you want this choice position </div>
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Have a cheery disposition </div>
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Rosy cheeks, no warts! </div>
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Play games, all sort</div>
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You must be kind, you must be witty </div>
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Very sweet and fairly pretty </div>
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Take us on outings, give us treats </div>
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Sing songs, bring sweets</div>
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Never be cross or cruel </div>
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Never give us castor oil or gruel </div>
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Love us as a son and daughter </div>
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And never smell of barley water</div>
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If you won't scold and dominate us </div>
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We will never give you cause to hate us </div>
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We won't hide your spectacles </div>
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So you can't see </div>
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Put toads in your bed </div>
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Or pepper in your tea </div>
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Hurry, Nanny! </div>
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Many thanks </div>
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Sincerely,</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In case you want to see the kids sing it on you tube.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And that is it for me. Now I'm off to start on another quilt - this one will be strip pieced. It's a view of Mohave Point at the Southern Rim of the Grand Canyon at sunset. (From a photo I took there a few years ago.) Should be fun!<br /><br />I hope you like my quilt!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Work is continuing on my Mary Poppins quilt - it's on my floor being blocked now. I thought I'd show you a couple of things today. First, how I use Liquid Stitch or Liquid Thread, and second how I added the tulle bow ties blocks in the sky. (And third a tiny bit about using Glad Press n Seal for quilt patterns.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> In my last blog I explained how I planned to enter this quilt into the National Museum's New Quilts from Old Favorites contest. This year the old fave was the bow tie block. Also in last blog was a picture of the pattern I made for this quilt - in case you want to go back and see it from the very beginning on my graph paper. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And viola! they are done.<br />My design wall is a portable foam insulation board and it isn't tall enough for the whole quilt to hang properly. Hence the bottom is bunched up on a chair.<br /><br />The next step and the MOST tedious thing ever was to make the letters for the song lyrics in the wheels. I had to pick 9 of my favorite songs from the movie, count out characters and see what I could fit into each 'wheel' in the sky. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I downloaded coloring book letters and then used a photo software program to stretch them out into tall skinny things so I could fit them on the wheels. The letters are about an inch high and half inch wide.<br /><br />Once I created my letter patterns, I traced each letter onto freezer paper and cut them out. I pressed these on a whitish batik fabric that I had backed with Steam/Seam Lite and cut each letter out.<br /><br />Then I arranged the letters and sort of fused them on the tulle wheels. The fusing didn't stick all that well to the tulle so I dabbed Elmer's Glue behind a few of the letters to solve that problem.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">You may remember that I built Mary on a foundation - Pellon EK 130. It's a knit interfacing with a fusible on one side. The fusible side is under the pieces I used to create the body - in this image we are looking at the wrong side of my Mary. There is no fusible on this side of the pellon.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Working on the wrong side, I smeared Liquid Stitch around and over the edges of my applique. It goes on thick, very thick so I use a Q-tip or finger to smear it thinner. I've been told you can add water to this stuff but I've never had it do the job when I've done this. PLUS, if you add water some of the glue/water mix leaches to the front of the applique and then it gets shiny when it's dry. (Yuck). </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Once the Liquid Stitch is dry, press it using a Teflon pressing sheet. This smears the glue out even more and it dries clear. You want the glue to to smear over the edges of your applique! Why? Because now when you cut out your applique, the edges are nice and fused together and they won't unravel.<br /><br />Now arrange your applique, fuse it down using steam and then stitch around the edges. I use a small zig zag stitch on monofilament thread to stitch them down.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Now that I look at it, my swirly parts of the design are a little weird. Oh well. The problem with the Press/Seal is that it is tricky to tear it away when it's under your stitches. Then you have darkish looking bits of it which makes your thread look a bit dirty. Next time I'll find a better way to mark the Press/Seal so if I can't get it all off it won't be a problem. Live and learn! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">For Jolly Holiday I made a simple - lol - carousel horse. Remember how the horses jumped off the carousel and off they went into the English countryside?<br /><br />If you look carefully, you can see some of my quilting. It's not the best but I've never tried to create wind before and making those large swirls on a little domestic machine was trickier than I thought it would be!<br /><br />(She sailed away when the wind changed.) </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Currently my quilt is pinned to the clean! floor in my sewing room. It's being blocked - I didn't soak it in cold water as I usually do because I was afraid Mary's face would run. So, I pinned like mad and steamed the heck out of it. It will sit there for at least 24 hours and then I'll sew on a faced binding.<br /><br />I used Warm/Natural batting by the way. The dense cotton batting combined with the steam, etc. will help my quilt to hang straight without any rippling.<br /><br />By the way. I need help naming it... my dad and I are leaning to naming it Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious which is only 32 characters. <br /><br />BUT, then I have to learn how to spell it.<br />(I'm copying/pasting it everywhere now, lol.)<br />It kind of fits the quilt though.<br /><br />That's it for me this week - now I'm off to clean the house.<br />It hasn't been straightened up for at least 6 months and boy is it a MESS! If there is a horizontal surface, it has clutter on it! I do have my priorities in order though.<br /><br />Quilt First. Clean Second.<br /><br />Comments/Questions are welcome!</span></td></tr>
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<br />Material Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207955801104019255noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936994744919625087.post-79753655385233073902017-07-10T08:56:00.002-07:002018-03-31T16:09:18.653-07:00Wanted: A Nanny for Two Adorable Children<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">My mom took me to see Mary Poppins when I was a little girl and she told me years later that I cried all the way home because I wanted it to be real.<br /><br />What was it about this sweet musical that so captured my imagination? I'm still thinking about it over 50 years later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Part of it I'm sure was the wish for a world where things seen and things unseen mix and blend so that we are all guided to better places as we learn and grow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Some of it was the absolutely charming lyrics and melodies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Some of it was the idea that magic was all around us in common places - like the rooftops of London at twilight or a children's nursery room, or a tea party - if we could only see it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">My guess is that the reason this movie still resonates with me is that it teases me with the idea of heaven. For me, it points to what CS Lewis described as a longing for a distant land. A calling to a place so sweet; a place beyond my ability to imagine but beautiful and magical.<br /><br />I still get misty eyed when Bert sings -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br />And of course the beautiful paintings by Peter Ellenshaw captured that mystery and magic. My mom bought me the book you see, so I had these beautiful images in my hands whenever I read it.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Anyway, I'm telling you all this because it's probably the only quilt I finish this year and I wanted to explain why I'm putting so much time and effort into it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Below is a picture of my pattern. I'm making this quilt for a competition at the National Quilt Museum - their New Quilts from Old Favorites contest. This year the old favorite is the bow tie block.<br /><br />If you look back at my last blog you can see how I built the city. I start most of my quilts on a graph paper by working out my ideas and playing with arrangements. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> In my mind, I wanted a day time scene - I wanted to capture the scene when she has finished her work and is leaving. But I also wanted to include some of the 'chaos in her wake'. (From the song Mr. Banks sings before he is fired.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">As I made my Mary, I had to do some creative problem solving. First, this shot is the only full body shot of her leaving. I didn't like it. I wanted her looking at the viewer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> As Mary is flying away, Bert calls out to her and asks her not to stay away too long. She turns and smiles down at him. This is the face and expression I wanted to use. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> The problem is that her whole body twists to turn back to Bert, but we don't see it. I needed a pattern of her whole body. This is a problem.<br /><br />To solve it I watched the movie with my camera in hand.<br />Viola, she comes to apply for the job and now I have a nice profile shot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, she was facing the wrong way. That was easily fixed by flipping her with my photo software program. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> I used this image to trace her body and get her arm and carpet bag just right. I used the bust and head position shot from when she smiled down at Bert to create her top half including her hat and scarf. Then I used the shot of her dress and shoes from the photo of her flying above the city for the bottom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br />My Mary is about 14 inches tall - 16 including her umbrella. I needed another shot to show me her arm and hand holding her umbrella and once again the movie helped. (See below).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br />All this involved printing out a lot of different sizes of each pose in order to fit them all together into one piece I could make a pattern from. Then I taped my composite picture to my sliding glass door and traced it out on freezer paper.<br /><br />Whew!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Here is how I put her together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I built her on a foundation which has a fusible on one side. I love this foundation - it's Pellon EK 130. It's a light weight knit and it holds the bigger pieces of my patterns. </span></div>
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When I create a figure like Mary (or like Gene Kelly from Gotta Dance!) I start by cutting out the big pieces from my freezer paper pattern. (In this case, the biggest piece was her dark blue coat.) Once the big pieces of fabric are in place, I cut into that big paper pattern and cut the little pattern pieces out of it. I use the remains of the paper pattern to help me arrange the tiny pieces of fabric. You'll see how this works as we go on.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Once the whole coat was cut out, I began cutting out the smaller pieces from the freezer paper. In the above shot you can see that I cut out the arm portion of the pattern and used markers to give it definition from the coat. (I just pressed on that arm pattern and traced around it).<br /><br />All the small pieces of the pattern have Steam a Seam Lite fused to the back. (I fuse it on- not just press it with my fingers. This makes it easier to cut out tiny pieces.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> The arm is drawn on the blue coat. Mary is flying toward the lighter portion in the sky so I have to highlight that on her arm and her coat. On the photo above, I'm going to use a lighter royal blue on the right side of her arm and cut out even smaller tear drop and long shapes to create the illusion of light shinning on her sleeve and bodice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> If you have a really good image, you can posterize it using various software programs and create very detailed patterns. I alas, didn't have great images to work with so I had to fudge it. I eventually added some long lighter streaks in her coat. Which you can see below - but first her carpet bag. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I had a great floral fabric which worked wonderfully for her bag - thank goodness for large stashes of lots of different bits of florals I've collected over the years! I used a black sharpie and a black fabric dye marker to shade the bottom of her bag. Remember, we are looking up at her so we need to see her bag from that angle. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Now on to her shoes! I love her feet when they stick out at that funny angle. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Here is her body I didn't bother showing you how I made her little bit of dress, I just cut out my freezer paper pattern and found the perfect ripply blue batik. Then I shaded it a bit along the bottom just like I did her carpet bag.<br /><br />I created her hat and arm in the same way as everything else.<br /><br />Mary is only 14 inches and her face is about 1 x 1 inches wide. I could not make a pattern for it, but after playing around for quite a while I figured out a way to resize the photo of her head so it would fit with this body. I used photo transfer fabric and printed out her head.<br /><br />The other problem is that the photo was too bland for the colors in my quilt so I took after it and colored it with pencils. I added more cherry color to her lips, defined her brow line, added a bit more white in lighter area and a blush color on her left cheek. <br /><br />It still isn't as good as I'd like it but I'm afraid I'll wreck it all together if I keep messing with it. My husband's mother used to say "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". My husband is a bit of a perfectionist so I'm always telling him "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good". <br />I'm trying hard to follow my own advice!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">To start off, the whole hand and umbrella handle was created out of one piece of fabric, I choose a mottled white with flecks of gray.</span> </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I cut out the hand and pressed it to the mottled white print and using a black marker, colored the umbrella handle and its decorative tassel.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Next I shaded in the area using a black colored pencil to give the illusion that the handle to her umbrella was something out of the ordinary. (Remember it was that parrot?!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I peeled off the freezer paper pattern of her glove and used a light touch and a colored blue pencil to create the 3 dimensional thumb and lightly shade under it. I chose blue because it looked natural with the blue sky behind her and her blue coat. It worked well! (I also highlighted a bit of her thumb with a white marker.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And here she is - all put together. I used a black marker to make the ribs in the umbrella. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And lastly I'll show you Mary in the sky saying goodbye.<br />My design board isn't big enough to hold the whole thing so it droops on top.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">As always, comments and questions are welcome!</span></div>
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