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Before I show you a fabulous artwork I am using as a second inspiration, here are some more components for the new quilt. I made the mistake of counting how many components I have sewn. Including these seven, I now how 36. I need at least 100 before I start to assemble. *** heavy sigh**** Oh well, it will take awhile but hopefully by then I will have several more artworks for inspiration when I start to assemble the components. So, here is the second piece I am using as inspiration. Could be a quilt, huh? But it is a paper collage. LANCE LETSCHER Showboat, 2008. Collage on board. 74” x 50.” A large commissioned piece by Letscher is part of The Austonian art collection. Using discarded vintage ephemera such as found paper, book covers, old magazines and record covers, Lance Letscher creates collaged compositions of astounding intricacy and craftsmanship. Here is what one critic said about the piece: "His compositions, driven by a piecemeal aesthetic with a meticulously obsessive sensitivity to color and content, evoke both the expansiveness of the cosmos and the complex detail of microcellular life forms. Crafted with a rich and vibrant vocabulary eliciting discovery by his viewers, Letscher’s works engage us with their poetry and intricacy." Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't have a MFA so here is my look at the design elements. 1. Again I chose a piece that has a motif. Do notice that while the rectangles change sizes and colors, their orientation is always in the same direction. 2. Again, the focal point is made primarily by the change in color to warm color vs the mostly cooler rest of the composition. Again, the focal point is off center but still integrated into the entire composition. 3. I think the color range is far more expansive that I am planning or that Heather included in her quilt. 4. Heather had a value variation from top to bottom and I don't see that here but there is a lovely value variation from left to right. It would have been really easy to just fade into dark on the edges but the bottom right has the value coming back up to a light again. I like that. Makes the surface look like it ripples. 5. I love, love, love the layering in this piece. There is real visual depth with rectangles floating on an interesting background. 6. The one thing that really strikes me here is my need to get closer to see more details. At the first Maine Event I discovered that really good artwork needs to be interesting at three distances. From across the room so you want to get closer. From about 6 feet so you want to stop and look longer. And lastly from as close as you can get to see the secret little details you can only see when you get close. I am sure this piece has those little secrets and I want to get much closer to see them. I absolutely want some little details you can only see up close in my quilt. Yep, a real inspiration for me.
When I was in Houston in 2016 my special exhibit was right across the aisle from the beautiful Millefiori exhibit with all the beautiful English paper pieced quilts inspired by Willyne Hammerstein and I became fascinated with English paper piecing. I did a few pieces out of fancy silks but then I began to wonder how
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Neuloin isälle ja äidilleni lahjaksi Vanilla is the new black -sukat. Hauska sukkamalli, jossa perussukan jujuna on erilainen kantapää. Ohje on maksullinen mutta siinä on silmukkamäärät erivahvuisille langoille ja muutenkin ohje on selkeä. Isän sukat on neulottu sinivihreästä Schoppel-Wolle Admiral Cat print -langasta. Neulottuna monivärinen lanka käyttäytyi nätisti,ei läikittynyt eikä ollut muutenkaan paha. Äitini on kanervaisten sävyjen ystävä ja hänelle tein sukat Nalle Taika-langasta. Äidillä on isompi jalka kuin minulla joten sukat näyttävät kuvissa vähän reiluilta. Näen jo mielessäni kun äiti avaa paketin ja kiinnittää välittömästi huomion kantapäähän. Että miten tämä on tehty?! Saattaapa tuo viedä sukat joulun jälkeen kansalaisopiston käsityöpiiriin muillekin mammoille näytettäväksi. Olen nimittäin kuullut huhuja että sinne on muitakin äidille lahjoittamiani neuleita viety tutkittavaksi :) Nyt on aika hiljentyä suklaan ja neuleen ääreen ja seurata ikkunasta katseella lumimyräkän ylitse menoa. Täällä on nimittäin valkea joulu. Lämmintä Joulua Pujoliivin ystäville!
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Contest "Imagine" I had the honor to be part of the jury of the 2014 contest. Here are some of the selected quilts, impossible to show them all! J'ai eu l'honneur de faire partie du jury du concours 2014. Voici quelques quilts sélectionnés, impossible de les montrer tous! Chang Misun, Corée du Sud, 250 Imagines of the Sewol Ferry Marita Lappalainen, Finlande, Sweet City Maria Stoller, Switzerland, ...all the people... Blandina Daria, Italy, Diconnection Trees Diane Melms, USA, Jubilo Marianne Burr, USA, Cosmic Communication Teresa Gai, Italy, Dreaming Sabine Schneider, Germany, Behind Windows Reiko Saito, Japan, Imagine the Future Suze Termaat, The Netherlands, Imagine Monika Schiwy-Jessen, Germany, Breaking Through 1rst Prize of the Contest Gyöngyi Varadi, Hungary, Exoplanet Rahel Elran, Israel, Premordial #2 Carrefour 1 Carrefour 3 Carrefour 4 Carrefour 5 Carrefour 6 Carrefour 7
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Tutorial on how to use scraps of fabrics to make a magic quilt that sews itself as you are making another quilt.
I'm all about saving time and money. When I first heard of chain-piecing, I really latched onto it. I discovered that not only did it prevent the little bird's nest knot on the underside of the fabric when starting and that it saved thread, (Have you ever noticed how much thread is thrown away as you sew? You could stuff a doll with it!), but it also kept a whole line of pieces together so I didn't have to get up and down as much as I was sewing. I could get into my groove and go. I then learned that if you used a little scrap of fabric - about 1-1.5" wide and sewed over that at the end of the chain, you had all the benefits of chain piecing indefinitely. Cool. I was converted to the method. Then as I was reading a quilting book (Cut the Scraps! by Joan Ford, pg. 35), she mentioned how she always had 2 projects going at once. The main one and a secondary one that was done over a long period of time. Here's how it works. You are sewing along and come to a place where you need to remove your sewing from the machine. You reach into your little box of pre-cut pieces and sew a couple together, using these as your holder while you remove your sewing project. When you begin sewing again, remove the secondary project and put it off to the side. This first photo is of two scraps I am sewing together to make longer strips. When I have sewn these together, I can remove the black thing behind it that I was sewing. The second photo is of a little plastic container I use to contain my secondary project. In this case, I began accumulating 1" strips - things that others were throwing away and I thought, "Surely something can be made from these!" I think that it's much easier to do this if the secondary project is purely scrappy in design. You don't want to have to keep two projects in mind and remember which one you are working on. One inch strips may not be your cup of tea, but choose some scrap project - especially if it's a "grab bag" style, and you can put those scraps to good use. What I am doing is sewing 1" x 9" strips together, or if the 1" pieces are smaller than that, I am piecing then together to make longer strips which I then cut down to about 9" strips. I sew them together, little by little. When I have 16 strips sewn together, I iron it (I know, I'm waiting until the end), and then trim the square to 8.5" x 8.5." When I get enough of those squares made, I can make them into a quilt. I've been working on this for the last 2 years and have 15 squares out of the 80-120 I need to make a full or queen, so it will be a while before I have it complete, but, I love that I can be wasting nothing - no fabric, no thread. See finished quilt here.
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When I was in Houston in 2016 my special exhibit was right across the aisle from the beautiful Millefiori exhibit with all the beautiful English paper pieced quilts inspired by Willyne Hammerstein and I became fascinated with English paper piecing. I did a few pieces out of fancy silks but then I began to wonder how
This is Sandra’s Cora Quilt and it is a pattern designed by Fabriculous Quilt Shop. I just love the large Ric Rac in the inner border, that really makes this quilt special. She purchased the pattern from Fabriculous, here is a link to their website. Sandra left the quilting design up to me and at first I thought I would do free hand swirl across it as she said this will be a dragger quilt for her granddaughter. But then changed my mind since the batting is Dream Puff and the backing is Minkie, I really wanted this to be a squishy soft quilt for a toddler to drag around, so more open quilting was the way to go. I decided on a large orange peel design since I had a perfect grid to work with and I also wanted to try more of my new Quilted Pineapple Templates. This time I tried the 10 inch template and I love how it turned out! I stitched in all the ditches and around the Ric Rac and then added a simple X in the outer squares for contrast.
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Hi friends! Today I have a really special (long) post for you! Today I want to share a quilt that took me two years and about 85 hours to complete - my Postage Stamp quilt! I got so many questions on Instagram every time I posted pictures of this project so I will try to cover all the FAQ's here. First, let me start at the beginning... THE INSPIRATION My grandmother passed away in October 2019. She was the one who taught me how to quilt and who my pattern company is named after. After she passed, my mom and aunt asked if I would finish a couple of the quilts she had been working on so we could give them to family members. This red, yellow, and green 9-Patch quilt one was one of them. I don't know the name of the pattern but I know it came from a magazine. I remember her working on this quilt over the years and I know each individual square finished at 3/4". Can you believe that!?! The quilt top was finished many years ago so I just got it longarm quilted (with a Baptist Fan pattern) and then I bound it by hand. The back was white with colorful buttons and the binding is black with red and yellow flowers on it, as you can see here. The backing fabric was hanging with the quilt top in her closet and I believe I picked out the binding fabric from her stash. This quilt went to my aunt Janet and her husband Dave. The other quilt I finished at that time (I have 2 more I still need to finish!) was this little baby quilt. I think the squares finished at 1-1/4". My aunt and I chose the back and binding fabrics from my grandmother's fabric stash and then I had it longarm quilted with the Interlocking Orange Peel panto by Karlee Porter. This quilt went to one of my cousins. So after finishing both of those quilts made by my grandmother, I was inspired. I never thought I would make a Postage Stamp quilt; too intense for me! But I got the itch around that time to make something with tiny squares and a little while later I made my first blocks. CUTTING I cut 1-1/2" squares that would finish at 1" each. I did not do all my cutting at once. I found that I liked to cut batches of squares, both bright and white, whenever I was running low or got tired of the ones I had in my pile. It was a nice way to break up all of the sewing. When I was actively working on my Postage Stamp quilt I would keep piles of squares by my machine so I could easily grab and sew. I didn't put too much thought into what fabric went where. I just tried to space out colors to create balance. When I needed a break from that project I simply put the squares in a ziplock bag. They didn't get wrinkly so it was easy to pick up where I left off the next time I was ready to work on my quilt. FABRIC I used lots of different whites, creams and low volumes for my "whites". If you look closely at some of the following pictures you'll be able to tell. From far away, everything reads as white but the quilt still has a really scrappy feel to it. Plus it was a great way to use up scraps! As far as the brights go, I used alll the colors. My only requirement was there had to be enough contrast between the brights and whites. There are several fabrics of my grandmother's in this quilt. Including a few squares that have remnants of her embroidery! Those are my favorite! ASSEMBLY There are several ways to assemble a Postage Stamp quilt. You can strip-piece units together. But since I used scraps for all of my pieces I cut squares and sewed them together one-by-one. I didn't mind; in fact I preferred to do it that way so it would be extra scrappy! But of course, you could strip piece if you wanted. For the most part, I chain-pieced rows together to make regular, small 9-Patches (above). I made some that had brights in the corners and some that had whites in the corners. This was such mindless sewing and I quite enjoyed it! Immediate satisfaction! Then I sewed nine of those 9-Patches together to make big 9-Patches that had 81 squares in each block. I figured out it took me about 45 minutes to make a block (maybe about an hour with cutting). Towards the end of this project, I switched from making small 9-Patches to just chain piecing squares together to make a row for the big 9-Patches. I started by sewing tons of pairs of bright and white squares together. When I got bored I separated the pairs and then sewed them together to make units of 4 squares each. Once I had all those sewn together I sewed 2 of those units together plus one extra square to make a row of 9 squares. PRESSING After I made each block row, I pressed the seam allowances toward the dark/bright fabrics. After I sewed the rows together, I pressed the seams open. I pressed everything as I went. It may seem daunting but I honestly got faster the more I did it. It really wasn't too bad. I definitely recommend pressing as you go and pressing the seams open will help your quilt lay nice and flat. Quick side note here: I never pin when I piece. If you're really accurate in your cutting and piecing all of your seam allowances should be able to nest together nicely. I'm sure that saved me a lot of time while making this quilt. I have some tips saved in my Instagram highlight bubbles on precision piecing and cutting. Check it out @gigis_thimble. As I worked on this project, I found it helpful to set little goals for myself. I started by making two blocks and kept trying to double the number of blocks I had until I finished. One month I challenged myself to make 100 little 9-Patches and towards the end of this project, I challenged myself to make 1 big 9-Patch a day until I was done making all of my blocks. I always tell myself, "A little progress every day adds up to big results!" and that is definitely the case with a Postage Stamp quilt! Because there are a gazillion seams in this quilt, it is heavier than normal. The seams can start to stretch apart because of the weight and become harder to match up. So I would recommend that you make two halves of your quilt; press the row seams and then sew the 2 halves together to complete your quilt. Here I am at the halfway point: And here is the finished quilt top. An exciting moment! FINISHING I bound the quilt in this red and white gingham fabric that I had in my stash. I also had this rainbow fabric in my stash that I had bought recently for another project (that didn't turn out how I wanted so I gave it away). The fabric is 55218-20 from the fabric line Shine On by Bonnie and Camille for Moda. I used it for the back of my quilt and I love it. My friend Jen Ostler quilted it with the Scribble Hearts panto. She always hides an object in her quilting for her clients to find so this time she did a rainbow. It took me forever to find but I think it's darling. It's much easier to find from the backside of the quilt than the front! One of my Instagram followers sent me a picture of her Postage Stamp quilt that had been quilted with the Scribble Hearts panto and I thought it was sweet and fun so I decided to do the same on mine. I love the quilting community where we can all inspire and learn from each other! I've been buying custom quilt labels from Ever Emblem for the last couple of years. I get the 2" cotton fold-over, sew-in labels and I've been really happy with them. They're really inexpensive and a quick way to label your quilt. Well that's it! I think I addressed all of the FAQ's! Please let me know if I missed anything. Just to recap here is a quick breakdown of all of the details... DETAILS Finished size of individual squares: 1". Finished quilt size: 72" x 90" Total number of big 9-Patch blocks: 80 Layout: 8 x 10 blocks Total number of 1" squares: 6,480 Start date: December 27, 2019 Finish date: November 3, 2021 Longarm quilter: Jen Ostler in Highland, UT (@drycreekquilter on Intstagram) Quilt panto: Scribble Hearts Hidden object in the quilting: rainbow Backing: Rainbow 55218-20 by Bonnie + Camille for Moda Approximate time to make this quilt: 85 hours Batting: 100% cotton Machine pieced Hand-bound 1/4" seams I hope you enjoyed this post! Like I said, please let me know if you have any questions. I'd love to know what you think about this project and whether or not YOU might make a Postage Stamp quilt someday! Happy quilting!
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