In the midst of piecing several other projects, I got 100 v-block units put together and pressed for Step 2 of the En Provence mystery! Then I realized that I wasn’t planning on making the full size quilt, so I’ve overmade blocks. Oh well - I suppose i can always make the size quilt I want and then throw the leftovers into another project.
My colors are a little different; rather than magenta I’m using a pinkish/coral color.
Check out some of the other Step 2 results in Bonnie’s linky!
This week, I talk about what I’ve been sewing, the benefits of cleaning off my cutting table, a bit about starting up a small business, and review three books.
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This month, Pam and Lynn talk about how to cheat at quilting, taking online classes, and class etiquette.
This is the audio-only version of the video on YouTube. See show notes, photos, and more available on The Stitch TV Show page!
NOTE: This audio-only version of The Stitch is replacing my usual weekly HtbaS podcast; I’ll be back solo next week for the usual geeky fare!
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This week I finished a birthday present and a commission project for a catheter bag cover. Lots of other sewing happened with catching up on the Favorite Thing BOM blocks and finishing a king sized quilt top. I’m torn on quilting it though- I know how I want it quilted but don’t think I have the longarm skill to do it, and it’s too big for my home machine, I think.
Perhaps I’ll bite the bullet and do it at home anyway.
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It’s the no backsies podcast! Context provided within the podcast. This week I talk about 10 minutes up front on Cat Chat (Nina had surgery on Wednesday, but she’s fine), then some guild show and raffle quilt talk, and then finally the dirt on what I got at the Super Bolt sale last weekend.
Books reviewed in order of preference this week:
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This week I talk about what’s coming up in the next few months for me (and how collaboration is forcing me out of my quilting rut), working on the Bonnie Hunter Allietare mystery, doubting choices you make in quilting, and why I shouldn’t binge watch some TV shows.
Here’s the tutorial for the hexagon caddy from this picture of Nina and my Allietare blocks.
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I was inspired by The Toast’s post on recipe blogs and my own experience. You’re welcome, CoralQuilts!
Edited: I’m closing comments on this because instead of being a fun banter, there are starting to be some blocks in a bunch over hurt feelings and general unloading on unsuspecting targets.
Oh, hey, finally got a WIP Wednesday post up on Wednesday! And actual progress to report, too!
The #LDSI Labor Day Sew In was pretty productive for me. I got two quilts bound, a top pieced, made a new purse, put finishing touches on some luggage tags, and made the top for my official Panel Challenge piece for the Atlanta Modern Quilters Guild.
This is the (unpressed) panel I’m starting with. It’s very tempting to just add a border to it as it and quilt it, but I was thinking through where I’d like to put it. I didn’t have a spot in my house just calling for this quilt to be hung on a wall, so I went another way.
A way that involved a lot of geometry and angles and bias edges.
Anywho, the top got pieced (after much swearing and sighing) and sandwiched and I started quilting it last night. I’m doing custom quilting on it and using a number of different thread colors to match. Here’s a close-up of some of the quilting in one of the sunflower centers.
I had the privilege of taking a class from Esterita Austin today through the East Cobb Quilters Guild on “Painting for Illusion”; I wanted to take it because my art quilting skills could use a little improvement; wait, that’s a lie. They could actually use a LOT of improvement, and I’ve always wanted to paint better.
Esterita is an excellent teacher and I would definitely recommend taking a class from her if you get the chance; she is entertaining and charming and very knowledgeable about techniques and theory behind design and painting on fabric. Also, she invented MistyFuse, so she’s smart, too.
Anywho, our class project was a still life of three pots, which were fussy cut from her hand dyed fabric. The goal was to have light value on the left and dark value on the right to mimic a light source somewhere on the left. Here’s a picture of my piece after fusing, but before painting:
We then worked on painting using some ProChem paints Esterita provided and learned about blending, tints, shading, and all sorts of Fancy stuff. And voila!
I’m happiest with the pot in the middle - the leftmost one is still a little jacked up. On the rightmost one with the handle, I’m happy with the painting I did on the lid to give it definition. Esterita was impressed the skinny dark line was done with paint and not a Sharpie marker. A+ for skinny line drawing!
I’m done with the painting, but I’m not sure if I’ll quilt it. The colors are not something I’d normally decorate with, but if I do quilt it, it would be with some sort of humorous background to depict the psychedelic nature of the color palette of the pots. And possibly play off the word “pot”, if you catch my meeting.
A jam-packed episode with feelings, cooking, books, and charitable sewing!
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