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Catching up on the Old…Getting ready for the new

3/14/2014

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I have been going to a winter quilting retreat.  It is a great time to finish up old projects that haven't gotten much attention.  This year I was able to finish three such projects, and continue to work on a fourth.  The first, pictured on the left, it is "Esterita's Cave".  I made it in a class with Esterita Austin.  She teaches you not only how to frame your fabric selection to get the right spot for highlights and shadows, but how to enhance them with a little paint.  I used one of my snow dyed-fabrics.  The second project is "Ellen's Bug", from a class with Ellen Ann Eddy.  Again I used my hand dyed fabrics, some angelina fibers and a lot of thread.  Both of these just needed to be quilted and bound.  The third project I haven't taken a picture of it yet…but it's being used on my table.  It was a table runner made in a class with Carol Taylor.  The fourth project is a quilt-as-you-go log cabin being made out of batiks.  It is not done, but I'm getting closer.  I started it in a class at Grand Quilt (a store I used to work at), with Nancy Roelfsema.  She told us not to plan to make a bed quilt, because we wouldn't finish it…well I thought she was speaking to the rest of the class, not me.  Anyhow, it's been like 8-9 years.  Instead of doing the whole queen size quilt from the quilt as you go blocks, I will now just use them as a border around a hand-dyed center panel that I will quilt on my long-arm.  I can see the end, with a lot of left over batiks.  Shucks!  The third picture on the right is my first long-armed quilt.  It was a line study that I made after taking some classes with Nancy Crow.  While in class, we only used black and white, and straighter lines.  After class I wanted to experiment with adding more variation in shades as well as the curved lines.  I have another line study waiting to be quilted when I am more proficient on the long-arm.  I now have room on the shelf for some new projects that I have been thinking about.  But before I can get started with them, I have some dyeing, much studying to do.  May you find happiness in your creative endeavors!

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    I love using leader/ enders when I am chain piecing.  It was an idea from Bonnie Hunter.  Instead of using a scrap piece of material in between chains, use two small blocks.  You can work on two project projects at once!  I keep a pile of 2" scrap squares next to my machine for this reason...Happy piecing!


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