tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45885680245660522812024-03-28T23:29:44.192-04:00Q.U.I. (Quilted under the Influence)Whether we know it or not, there is always some influence that triggers a quilt. It could be anything. This blog shares my quilts and the journey of their creation.Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-83776512306136194292016-07-11T20:16:00.000-04:002016-07-11T20:16:29.599-04:00Working in a Series - BuoysI recently completed an online course taught by Elizabeth Barton called Working in a Series. The course is offered through the <a href="http://academyofquilting.com/">Academy of Quilting</a>. The course is excellent and I've never experienced an on-line quilting teacher as thorough or as encouraging as Elizabeth. This is the third class I've taken from her. Previous classes were Inspired to Design (I took this one twice), Basic Dyeing for Quiltmakers, and Abstract Art for Quiltermakers (I audited this). All her courses are excellent. <br />
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Back to Working in a Series. This class involves selecting a single theme and making a series of quilts on that theme. My theme was buoys. I am interested in the various shapes, angles, patterning that one might find when buoys are all piled up in a jumble. I had made a piece featuring buoys in the Inspired to Design class and wanted to explore it more.<br />
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First we made sketches.<br />
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Then I rendered some of my sketches in water color and some in acrylics before I even selected fabric. I found doing so helped me quickly determine where value problems might occur . (Yes, I have done value studies with light, medium, and dark pencils and those work well. But I found that often when working with color, one doesn't realize how tricky values and temperature can be.) The color sketches also made "trouble shooting" easy. I could post my piece on the classroom forum and Elizabeth was able to critique it and make suggestions. Thus corrections or changes were easily incorporated without the struggle of having to take apart a fabric piece.<br />
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After seeing this sketch (without the chalk marks), Elizabeth pointed out that the orange buoy in the middle is too large and also the wrong color. The warmer orange pushes forward against the light yellows. I had wanted that buoy to be in the back ground. She also suggested that the background space needed to be a bit more obvious.<br />
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I drew possible changes with chalk on the painting and after a couple more discussions with Elizabeth via the forum I came up with a solution that worked and I made up with fabric. (see below)<br />
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The stripes on the large buoy were made by sewing a lot of small pieces of fabric together to get the shading and variations of color, which is not as apparent in the other four buoys. By selecting cooler colors and aligning the buoys in different angles I was able to get the back buoys to recede . The pieces are all raw-edge appliqued with a small blanket stitch, sewn on to a muslin foundation.<br />
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The next two of the series are presented below- sketch first, then the fabric rendition.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">sketch Buoys 2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Buoys #2 (18" x 24")</td></tr>
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I hope in the course of the year I will complete the next three of the series AND quilt all six of them. But, don't hold your breath! I have a wedding quilt to make in the meantime!Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-8211330074138832212016-07-03T02:30:00.000-04:002016-07-03T02:30:16.217-04:00We have a WINNER!Thanks to all who commented on my two recent barn posts. A signed copy of Build A Barn will be going to Carol E. whose name my husband pulled out of the box. <br />
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Stay tuned to the SSOBB Blog Hop for more fun and info. Next up will be Heidi. Look for her post on Monday, July 4.Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-44892769088895662092016-06-30T02:00:00.000-04:002016-06-30T02:00:02.685-04:00Some More Barns<b>A <span style="font-size: x-small;">tiny</span> Barn</b><br />
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Last Christmas, several of the SSOBB members participated in a Secret Santa swap among ourselves. The gift I gave was a box filled with scraps, which usually brings the recipient bits of fabric she doesn't have in her stash anyway. Once I started poking through my scraps the urge to make something with them surfaced. I wanted to include it in the box. I didn't have a lot of time so I limited myself to what I could make in one evening. I was thinking of a mug rug, but this, being an SSOBB exchange, I decided it had to feature a barn.<br />
<span style="text-align: center;">I was thinking of the old dilapidated barns that stand forlornly in fields. The paint is pretty much gone and maybe there are gaps in the siding. The roof bows and the barn tilts. I chose not to include a door. It is somewhere on a side you cannot see and is probably wide open.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Note that the roof was made in a non-conventional manner. I pieced small scraps arranged vertically into a strip. I made the strip long enough to overhang the walls and simply attached the sky pieces at either end at an angle and trimmed it to the width of the strip. </span><br />
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<b>A Concocted Barn</b><br />
Sometimes while free piecing, the end result does not resemble the inspiration or even what I had imagined it would look like. That's what happened with this next barn.<br />
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My inspiration was a barn I saw near Brooks, Maine. I liked the salt-box construction with the long sloping roof and also the multi directions of the siding boards. I also liked the long row of windows in the short wall.<br />
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Did I capture it?... Nope. Part of the problem is that I was trying to get the two point perspective on a rather small piece of paper and I chose a different spot for the horizon (my eye level) than that in the photo. Consequently, I drew a compacted sketch. Furthermore, I completely forgot about the wonderful siding pattern, the little window, and the overall size of the barn.<br />
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As I have said before, sketches act as a map. They work well if one consults them. Only, in this case, I didn't. Don't ask, "why not?", 'cause I don't know the answer. Just one of those things that happened. The windows and door are bigger than they should have been. I suppose I could have made the barn bigger, but it didn't grow as expected - maybe I was running out of fabric, though I doubt it. Most likely, I was feeling bamboozled by the angles I did create when I cut my fabric. Some of them were downright screwy. I re-cut some, and made a few adjustments, but still felt frustrated.<br />
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The work hung on my design wall for weeks and then one day I decided just to keep going and not be so particular about it. After all, what I had created could have been a barn... a log barn, with a big faded door and a row of screened windows. Barns (real or make-believe) have character. That's what one makes them so interesting. And, free-piecing is sure to capture that when you let it.<br />
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Be sure to leave a comment for a chance to win a signed copy of Julie's book. Don't be shy. Free-piecing opens a whole new world in quilting and Julie will hold your hand the whole way. The drawing will happen on Saturday night, JULY 2.<br />
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The SSOBB Blog Hop is not done, yet. Heidi from Germany will be telling you about her barn, beginning July 4. (libellenquilts.blogspot.com)<br />
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P.S. I also made a <a href="http://quiltedundertheinfluence.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-stone-barn.html">Stone Barn</a>... but blogged about it recently so I won't repeat it. Click on the link to read about it.<br />
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-25182305240816553132016-06-27T02:00:00.000-04:002016-06-27T02:00:05.811-04:00 A City Barn in Maine - SSOBB blog hop Once upon a time Julie Sefton was writing a book and needed to have the drafts read and tested. She recruited quilters with varying experience as guinea pigs. To make the job more special, Julie created the Secret Society of Barn Builders (SSOBB) an elite sorority of which we were charter members. We could email between ourselves and her, but we were to be mum to the rest of the world. Can 15 people keep a secret about an exciting project? We sure did, even though we were busting to share. When her book, <b><a href="http://thefreepiecedbarnproject.blogspot.com/">Build-A-Barn No Pattern Construction</a>,</b> was published this past April, we were finally able to spill the beans. Now it is my turn to tell you about the barn I made - a city barn in Maine.<br />
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When Julie contacted me to be on the team of testers for her free-pieced barn building project, I was very excited. I love free piecing and the inherent character that results from quirks when sewing without a template or precise measurements. I have made many quilts with free pieced houses on them, but not a barn, so this was new focus for me.<br />
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Julie gave us few directions: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px; text-align: center;">"Create a free pieced barn that reflects the area where you live </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px; text-align: center;">using the book's process note drafts for reference, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px; text-align: center;">fabrics already in your stash, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px; text-align: center;">and your own design sensibilities and skill sets."</span> She also asked that our piece measure around 24 - 26 inches. That dimension was the challenge for me. All my house pieces were much smaller.<br />
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I chose to depict the barn that is attached to my home. In the coastal town of Belfast, Maine, nearly every home that was built in the mid to late 1800s has an attached barn. It doesn't matter if the home was a sea captain's mansion or a humble worker's house, it will have a barn. These homes and barns are in town, not in the country. Friends have referred to the barns as city barns. Some barns are large, but none are gigantic. Ours is big enough for a horse or two and a wagon or work supplies. The floor of our barn is well trampled, with dented wide boards. The hay mow clearly was used for storage.<br />
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I divided my sketch vertically and horizontally to identify sections that would be easy to piece together. This was my map throughout the process. It helped me to see what shapes I needed to cut and also reminded me of important steps like connecting background and the side of the building before raising the roof, especially if an overhang is needed. The actual quilt piece did not turn out looking exactly like this, as I made changes as I went along.<br />
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When I sew buildings, I usually begin with windows. This allows me to set the scale of the rest of the building. <br />
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As you can see the barn and house have clapboard siding. I really wanted the texture of clapboard, especially on the barn. I sewed together narrow strips of alternating fabric to achieve that effect. I sewed all these strips to make a large unit and then cut the sections I needed for the barn from it. I used a subtle stripe for the siding of the house. I wanted the barn to stand out, not the house.<br />
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I used a bit of artistic license. We live on a hill overlooking the harbor. Our real view is at the other end of the house. The above would be our view if our neighbor's building weren't in the way.<br />
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Although I titled this blog-post "A City Barn in Maine", the title of the piece is "just-Spring" after e e cummings' poem "in Just-". When I made it I was thinking Spring, especially mud season. That truly is a season in Maine which I feel should be celebrated rather than dreaded. Winter has lost it's icy grip, buds are swelling and of course the world is "mud-luscious" and "puddle wonderful." Windows and doors are open whenever it is warm enough, neighbors re-appear from indoor hibernation, and birds readily announce their presence. This train of thought was what prompted the choices of the fabric strips of the ground. <br />
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Julie provided each of us with sneak peeks of our finished quilts once Chris Ballard worked her quilting magic. But, we still have to be VERY patient and wait to see them for real. They will come home sometime towards the end of the year. In the meantime, YOU might be so lucky to see them in a special exhibit featuring the BUILD-A-BARN gallery, at AQS Chattanooga (September 14 -17, 2016), AQS Des Moines (October 5 - 8, 2016 ) or at the Davies Manor Quilt Show in Memphis (November 4 - 6, 2016).<br />
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Ah yes, the book. Julie wrote one incredibly readable book! She provides the back story on her prize winning quilt "See Rock City", which led to AQS's proposal that she put it all in type and photos . But that's not all. This is a book with excellent directions on how to deal with no pattern construction.<br />
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YES, YOU CAN DO IT, TOO! Some lucky commenter will win a signed copy of Julie's book, <b>BUILD-A-BARN, No Pattern Construction</b>. Leave a comment on this or my next posting. I will select via random drawing on Saturday, JULY 2. Be sure you are a reply commenter (or provide your email address) so that I can contact you if you win. (No-reply comments will be disregarded.)Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-17553724878844922362016-06-11T21:13:00.000-04:002016-06-11T21:13:00.277-04:00The Stone BarnIn North Wales, one would have to be blind not to see that stone is the primary building material available for just about anything... homes, churches, schools, walls. This is a rugged, mountainous country with few trees. Stones are available and that is what builders use.<br />
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So why not do the same when free-piecing a barn? My most readily available material is scrap fabric. Yes, I do have fat quarters and some half yards, but those aren't cut. My scraps are already variously cut. Most are sorted by color. Given that most of my scraps are small, less than 2 inches square, I was limited in the type of barn I could effectively build. This photo, taken near Llanegryn, North Wales, gave me all the inspiration I needed to dig into my scrap boxes.<br />
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I set the scraps aside while I worked on another project. Once that was done, I cobbled strips of scraps together to make the building. Then decided the rest of the quilt needed to be cobbled with strips of strips! <br />
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This barn building project took several attempts where I had to look and troubleshoot. That was the fun part and the most rewarding! Let me explain.<br />
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Problem #1. After I had sewn all of the scraps for the building together, I realized that the combination of dark fabric I chose for the window was too chaotic and also too large. I wasn't going to pick out all the stitches to get to the middle pieces of three rows. So I raw edge appliqued a square of black fabric with light gray zigzag stitches so that it would stand out clearly.<br />
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Problem #2. The scrap pieces above the window looked too bulky to have been reasonably used as "building material". After all, who would want to heft a stone as big as a window opening up to higher levels. These barns were made manually, not with hydraulic lifts! Once again, raw edge applique to the rescue. You can see the "patched stones" in the following photo.<br />
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This shows that there is more than one way to solve the problems. One need not stick to methods or "rules". One can un-sew and re-sew, but in this case, that was not practical. I quote Gwen Marston, from her book <u>Liberated Quiltmaking</u> (1996), "The most important solution to remember as you build your houses is <i>learn by doing. </i>Figuring things out as you work keeps your interest high and makes the building process fun. Once you get going, you will be surprised at how ideas come to you with solutions for every pesky problem." This is what I love about free piecing. The results don't have to be perfect. The process demands imagination from the maker. It also engages the imagination of those who see the quilt and recognize the resultant character it holds. <br />
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-35307349000599651092016-04-30T20:39:00.000-04:002016-04-30T20:41:13.612-04:00A Barn - built to lastOne month ago I had the pleasure of exploring parts of North Wales with my son, his fiancee, and my husband. We stayed in the village of Llanegryn. Almost all buildings there are very solidly built, made with thick walls of stone.<br />
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As one of the members of the SSOBB - the Secret Society of Barn Builders, only we are no longer a "secret"- this abandoned house and barn caught my eye.<br />
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From Wales, we went to the Lake District in the North of England. There stone barns are also prominent, but the stone is smaller than that used in Wales.<br />
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Of course, everywhere we went were paddocks of sheep and little lambs.<br />
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Julie Sefton's book, <u><a href="http://thefreepiecedbarnproject.blogspot.com/">Build -A- Barn: No Pattern Construction,</a></u> is now published. It is a terrific guide to free-piecing buildings. I just might expand my quilting horizons by building a stone barn! <br />
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By the way, there is a <a href="http://thefreepiecedbarnproject.blogspot.com/p/blog-hop-schedule.html">Blog Hop</a> going on now. Check it out and see the many different barns that were created by the SSOBB. Free piecing? YES! You can do it!<br />
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-39824405830289825652016-03-13T15:34:00.000-04:002016-03-13T15:34:36.612-04:00She's been too quiet ...As with a small child, quiet usually translates as busy - good busy or otherwise. That's exactly how I have been since my last post. Blogging falls by the wayside as the day comes to an end and all I want to do is relax and sleep. So today I decided I'd just do it and check one more thing off my list.<br />
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Here's the quilting related list and some photos:<br />
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** Teaching at the local fabric/art shop, <a href="http://fiddleheadartisansupply.com/">Fiddlehead Artisan Supply</a> - five different classes.<br />
- Introduction to Quilting - a four week class - Done. Another session is in the works for mid April.<br />
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- Planning and "practicing" for teaching a class about using the Quick Curve Ruler (a <a href="http://sewkindofwonderful.com/">Sew Kind of Wonderful</a> notion). Here are the quilts/ tops I have made for this project. The title of the patterns are in parentheses)<br />
From a free pattern ("Fun Poinsettia") on the Sew Kind of Wonderful web page:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This version follows the free pattern instructions. It has been made into a pillow cover. Hand quilted.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These two versions are also made from the above pattern, but I played "what if?" to see how the pattern changes.<br />
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Double Wedding Rings ("Metro Rings") - using solid colors and white on black and black on white fabrics to make the bits in the ring. I chose the gray background to highlight rings that were made with black on white. The white background goes with those made with white on black.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A variety of fabric was used because I didn't have enough of any one color/fabric to complete the pattern as directed.</td></tr>
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Strings of Beads ("Urban Chained")<br />
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- Planning for teaching three liberated classes: Stars, Houses, and Windmills. I have photo-samples of the first two topics, but my windmill pieces are hanging in the store and I don't have a photo.<br />
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** Digging into my stash and making a little dent with Slashed Squares - influenced by <a href="http://patcherymenagerie.blogspot.com/">Lynne Tyler's</a> recent projects: (She provided a<a href="http://patcherymenagerie.blogspot.com/2008/07/slashed-squares.html"> tutorial</a>)<br />
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-60092483469347542172015-11-29T19:42:00.000-05:002015-11-29T19:42:15.601-05:00One heck of a projectThis post is about one project that has taken a lot of concentration. I usually don't concentrate too hard on the sewing process, but for this one, I did. Slooow stitching, lots of pivoting, lots of thinking about the next stitch. I even used magnifying glasses to keep on track. Hence, I spent two months creating and sewing borders.<br />
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Remember this top - the nine-patch revisited?<br />
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I blogged about it <a href="http://quiltedundertheinfluence.blogspot.com/2014/12/plugging-away-getting-things-done-slowly.html">here</a>. I knew I wanted to do something more to it. That opportunity started late September when I attended the Holly Girls' Quilt Retreat in Elk Rapids, Michigan.<br />
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The topic of the retreat was raw-edge machine applique. I knew going in that I wanted to design borders for the nine-patch. I looked at various appliqued borders in reference books and pattern books. Once I realized I could do just about anything and that I didn't want borders with a single form that repeated endlessly, I began sketching some ideas. I brought a pile of scrap fabric and strips of background fabric with me. That was the extent of my preparation for the class. <br />
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Sue Nickels and Pat Holly are top-notch masters of raw edge machine applique. They shared their knowledge expertly and generously. We learned techniques - how to use fusible without adding bulk, how to design vines with equal repetitions, how to assemble complex applique pieces, and how to sew it all together. Best of all, they allowed us to do as we wanted for our projects and were able to adapt what they taught to fit our needs. We didn't have to use their patterns, though some were available. <br />
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As I worked on my border, I realized I needed to make my applique pieces small to fit the scale of the blocks in the body of the quilt. Those blocks are three inches square. I learned to combine many small pieces to make a unit before fusing them to the background fabric. I learned to adjust the stitch length and width to fit the size of the applique. I also had to create new motifs as I went along. I managed to get one border fused and a few pieces sewn by the end of the retreat. Here I am at the final show and tell.<br />
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In the past, I learned to zigzag applique which usually makes a pretty heavy edge on the fabric. Blanket stitch done correctly lies flat and isn't noticeable, especially if thread color matches the fabric. My machines at home do not "do" blanket stitch, but I was able to borrow a Bernina to use during the workshop. Oh boy! That turned out to be "expensive". Now, I was under the influence of the Bernina!!! Once I got home, I went out and bought myself a small Bernina, a 350 PE. (I am not interested in all the bells and whistles that the fancier Berninas have.) Well, I did have the excuse of not being able to finish my quilt top without the proper machine!<br />
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Without further ado, here is the finished flimsy. Close up photos will be in the next post. Tomorrow, I promise!<br />
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-46265811904942275292015-06-30T18:59:00.003-04:002015-06-30T19:04:20.246-04:00The Sunday Paper - or inspired by the parts department.As has been my process lately, I've been slowly whittling away at my scrap collection. Slowly is the operative word. It is hard to go fast when you don't know where you are going!<br />
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I started this project with no plan in mind other than to put scrap strips together log cabin style. I chain piece starting with the smallest strip and work my way through about six blocks at a time.. until I get tired of sewing and then I square each block up. None of the scraps are equal in width, so some blocks have more strips around than others. Also, I don't follow a light/dark patterning. What to do with them once they are squared? <br />
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I could put them together to create a mishmash. That didn't appeal to me.<br />
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I could stick them into my parts department box. (The parts department is a concept I learned from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Collaborative-Quilting-Freddy-Moran/dp/1402730438">Gwen Marston and Freddy Moran</a>. In preparing for their collaborative quilting projects, they made various block pieces ahead of time, not knowing just how they would use them. The idea was to provide time efficiency when they got together to make the quilts.) I really wanted to make something with my scraps and not have them sitting around in a box waiting for an idea. I dug into my parts department box and found 10 more similarly pieced blocks waiting. With 16 log-cabinish squares available I had to do something.<br />
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I decided to feature each block separately, so I turned each on point and surrounded them with strips of text prints and other neutrals. These strips were sewn to the blocks in a log cabin fashion. But, after three rounds of text I realized that the center blocks (measuring six inches square) were getting lost. By now I had decided that the finished block would be 20" square.<br />
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Back in the parts department, I found several long strips of scraps approximately 2.5 inches wide. Just what I needed. I ended up sewing many more scraps into strips. These replaced the third round of text strips mentioned above.<br />
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Once the colorful strips were sewn on I had to come up with a way to deal with the corner triangles.<br />
I sewed three rows of rectangles for each corner. Then I took my 20.5" square ruler and laid it on the block, lining up the centering lines with the corners of the central blocks. This showed me where to trim the color strips and where to mark the midpoint of each side. Once the big block was trimmed and marked, I matched it to the midpoint of the strips that would make the corner triangles.<br />
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When I tried sewing these blocks together, I found too many discrepancies. The ruler had slipped while I was trimming. Consequently, some were smaller than the others, never by much but enough to skew everything. Another problem to solve.<br />
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Cornerstones and sashing were added all around and it worked to add another dimension to the quilt and to disguise any mistakes.<br />
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By this time, I had a name for the quilt. When I was little, the local paper published the funnies in color. That was a big deal. The scraps of color and the text and gray reminded me of that... hence, The Sunday Paper - printed with lots of help from the parts department.<br />
<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-76932586735558839012015-05-26T08:00:00.000-04:002015-05-26T08:00:34.416-04:00A Little Sky WritingGreetings from Scrapville. Yes, I am still wallowing in scraps and having fun, too. There is no end to them. As you all know, scraps beget scraps! I find myself thinking of ways to use the scraps of the current scrap project.<br />
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When Lynne, <a href="http://patcherymenagerie.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-little-welcome.html">The Patchery Menagerie</a>, first blogged about making a Welcome banner for her new house, I wrote asking if I could steal her idea. Her reply was, " <span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5454540252686px;">Kathy, by all means, steal away. As Picasso said, "Good artists copy, great artists steal."</span><br />
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You see, I had just uncovered an orphaned house block and was wondering what I could do with it. Lynne's project was a perfect solution.<br />
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I remember, from childhood, occasionally seeing small planes doing what seemed like lazy loop de loops trailing "smoke" that magically spelled an advertisement or message in the sky. So I free pieced my Welcome with that mind. <br />
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At this point the house seemed a little lonely, so I added some trees, a puppy and kitty and a bird house and a few landscape features, all made from scraps and all raw edge applique using whip stitch.<br />
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Voila! Now when anyone comes to my back door they will be greeted with a little sky writing!<br />
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-64877392457090473682015-04-05T15:54:00.001-04:002015-04-05T15:54:19.415-04:00Squares, squares, and more squaresTwo summers ago, I took a box (think large stationary box) chock full of pre-cut squares with me to Pond Island. I had no plan in mind other than to do something with these and play with my hand crank sewing machine. The cut sizes of the squares were 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, and 3.0 inches. My first thought was simply to sew the squares of the same sizes together to make long strings of "parts" which could then be used at another time. As I was chain piecing, I realized how silly that idea was. I already had a box filled with similar parts and hadn't used them and certainly didn't need more. What I needed was to make something with what I had with me.<br />
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Hint: think log cabin construction - liberated to boot. <br />
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I made 4 blocks that summer and packed the whole thing up and brought it home.<br />
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I sorted my parts and finished chain piecing almost all of the squares I took with me.<br />
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So now I'll add another row of 4 blocks and then call it done!Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-19829781586992487762015-03-31T21:43:00.000-04:002015-03-31T21:43:20.279-04:00Some eye candy Hi! I'm still here and the sewing machine has been humming along.<br />
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I've been working on lots of little projects and a couple of bigger ones. A couple of projects are secrets... and will remain so for a while. Most of the small projects were class samples. I've been teaching beginning basic quilting and also beginning paper piecing at the local shop. The shop is small and chock full of fabric and a lot of art supplies. Available space limits class size to 4 at a time. Actually, that is an ideal number, as I can give lots of individual attention. It is fun to help someone discover and enjoy the process that is involved in quilting. I allow my students to select any project or pattern with squares, rectangles and triangles, and I help them make it, providing technique information as they need it. This is a casual approach, but it works and the students set the pace!<br />
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The center was inspired by a pattern called Eye Candy, from <u>!Caliente Quilts!</u> by Priscilla Bianchi. As fun as it was making the striped squares and the background pieces, I found myself wanting more. The quilt needed action and surprises. Hence, it evolved into a liberated medallion (Gwen Marston style). Sorry I couldn't get a better photo. I was backed against a huge snow bank and had maybe 4 feet between myself and the quilt.<br />
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When I piece I do leader and ender experiments at the same time. I never know just what I'll end up with when I start these. One such experiment was to piece nine-patches that would finish at 1.5 inches. It didn't take me long to decide this wasn't something I wanted to continue. It demands precision piecing which is NOT one of my strong points. But, I wasn't about to waste the little blocksso I pieced them into four patches using 2 inch squares from my stash of scrap squares. This is destined to become a pillow.<br />
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-47581083970635408612014-12-20T20:11:00.000-05:002014-12-20T20:11:49.634-05:00Plugging away, getting things done slowlyI have been back in the quilting saddle, but my horse keeps turning me away from the blogging station. (Gotta blame something!) I've been busy with several projects, among them some finishes!<br />
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<a href="http://quiltedundertheinfluence.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-love-crumbs.html"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Crumbs</span></a> and <a href="http://quiltedundertheinfluence.blogspot.com/2013/03/quiet-time.html"><span style="color: purple;">Behind Bars</span></a> were quilted just before I left Michigan. I finally got the bindings done.<br />
<span style="text-align: center;">I backed the crumb quilt with a piece of red seersucker and narrow strips of floral fabric. I brought the backing around to the front as binding.</span><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; text-align: center;"> </span><br />
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Marilyn Lange did all the quilting. I am happy with both of these quilts.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">You gotta listen to your quilt.</span> I made this <a href="http://quiltedundertheinfluence.blogspot.com/2014/03/play-time-keeps-me-sane.html">red /green liberated medallion</a> before I moved and planned on adding to it. This fall I put another border on it. I thought I'd be adding more borders, but everything I tried just didn't work. The quilt said, "STOP". So I did.<br />
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Last month I was going through one of my boxes and found a lot of nine-patches that were from an exchange I participated in many years ago. I decided on a whim to use them up (now or never). Of course, this was supposed to be a quick project. Not so fast! More than a few of these blocks were cut smaller than the needed 3.5 inch dimensions, or were sewn crookedly. At first I un-sewed a few and put them back together. That was a chore. Then I remembered Gwen Marston's mantra,"If it is too small, add on; if it is too big, cut it off". Bingo!<br />
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Wishing all of you a pleasant holiday and a Happy New Year!<br />
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Yes, we did move "on time" and arrived in Belfast, Maine shortly after Memorial Day. We looked at houses the day after we arrived and put an offer on one that very afternoon. By the next afternoon, we had the contract! We closed on the house about three weeks later and the movers (from Michigan) arrived the very next morning. It seems as though movers have jets on their trucks. They get to their destination so quickly. (Note: we had been watching the real estate listings all winter, so we knew pretty much which houses we wanted to see. Also, our buyer's agent had been in communication with us throughout, so he also knew and had everything lined up. The house we bought was at the top of our list.)<br />
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Once we were in the house, our time was spent unearthing our stuff from all the boxes. We did it slowly, so there has been almost no need to re-arrange things. We did have to paint the living room, put shelves in a linen closet and in the bathroom. And of course, we set up the quilting studio. This space may be evolving a bit more, as I do need to find a good work table, but I now have space for a large quilting frame. I set it up yesterday, but now am waiting until the roofers finish all their pounding before I spend more time in there. House and studio pics will come in another posting.<br />
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For at least 17 years BQ (Before [I began] Quilting) an old quilt hung on my living room wall. The quilt had been found in one of the grandmother's trunks. It had no known history, and she wasn't a quilter. It was made from silk neckties and brocades and was a vibrant mix of colors. Given my ignorance of the care for old fabrics, especially silk, the long exposure to daylight faded much of the colors and many of the silk pieces were crumbling when I took it off the wall and packed it away in a pillow case. I have looked for a photo of it when it was in good shape, but I can't locate one. The photo below shows it as it looks now.<br />
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The block and the resulting pattern has always intrigued me. Last October at the last Beaver Island Quilt Retreat, I began an attempt to recreate the pattern. I decided to use my shot cottons, mixed with plaids, dots, and stripes. I cut muslin templates of the 60 degree diamond so I'd have consistency in the final size. All the strips were sewn on to the muslin, log cabin style, beginning with the red scraps in the middle. Sounds easy, but I got so confused as I was piecing. I was trying to achieve a herringbone look within the block. Most of the time I would get one side ok and the opposite end just wouldn't work out. Consequently, I finished far fewer blocks than I had anticipated at the retreat. I sort of liked my work, but wasn't too excited about it. It seemed too busy and I had perhaps too small of a sample to handle the busyness.<br />
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It is amazing when one steps away from problems for a bit that a solution becomes apparent. I put this project away and didn't look at it again until I established my studio here in Belfast.<br />
I decided I needed to calm the piece down. So I made semi-monochromatic green blocks and tried them out. I chose green because almost all the blocks I had made had a touch of green, and it is the complement to the orangey-red/pinks, too. I sent photos to two good friends, Elisa and Jean, and they sent me their comments. (Thanks !)<br />
Here are some of my arrangements and then the final trimmed down piece.<br />
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-70346268765358709082014-04-22T20:24:00.000-04:002014-04-22T20:24:51.509-04:00Entertaining myselfThe house selling process is coming along pretty well. We hope to be on our way East by the end of May. The whole time has been exciting, nerve-wracking, tedious, endless, and busy. We are fortunate to have neighbors who go South for the winter and allowed us to use their house for about a month while we did the spit polish cleaning before the house listed, and then during the showings and inspections. That was such a help. You can't tell a dog and cat to stop shedding or to quit bringing in debris from their daily outings. With the dog and cat out of the house and us in socks only state, we managed to get the house ready with minimal stress. <br />
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I found I still needed to keep myself creatively busy to get a good nights sleep and to feel a sense of accomplishment so here's what I did during my down time:<br />
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Looked for interesting reflections and photographed them. Here's a sampling<br />
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Had some fun with punchneedle embroidery.<br />
I don't do this often, as it is tedious, but I was without a sewing machine and I didn't want to haul my scraps over to our "borrowed house". First I made up a kit as a warm-up project. <br />
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Once that was completed, I sketched a cottage by a lake onto a piece of muslin and had fun picking the thread colors and figuring out the details as I went along.<br />
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Explored lines, color, and space using fabric.<br />
This is just an "exercise". It is not meant to represent anything. (The only functional design wall I have right now is a piece of foam-core board that is covered with black fabric. Its real purpose is a background for photographing light bordered quilts.) When I was playing with the purple,pink, and white fabrics and began sewing them together, I realized that I could add black scraps to make "empty space" as another feature.<br />
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-5696870766347846232014-03-03T19:43:00.000-05:002014-03-03T19:43:50.877-05:00Play time keeps me saneSorry I have been absent for so long. Since October I've been cleaning, polishing, packing. We are in the process of selling our home for a move to Maine. That is a long time dream and for us it is move now or never. We know where we want to live, but won't own a house to go to until after we get there. This makes for some challenging packing decisions...what to bring... what to pass along to others, etc. <br />
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Anyway, we are finally at a point where we haven't too much to do and we can now breathe a little. Breathing a little means time to play with fabric! I've packed a lot of my larger stash, but scraps are still accessible. I've challenged myself to play with solid scraps. I have a library of Gwen Marston's books and look through them regularly. I'm sure you'll see the influence of her work on mine.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Liberated Log Cabin I didn't like this very much, so I kept one block and cut up the others</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Log Cabin Medallion as it is now. 22" x 22" .<br /> Ran out of fabric! I'll add to it when I get to Maine and unpack my stash.</td></tr>
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-34223816444363613682013-09-16T22:04:00.000-04:002013-09-16T22:04:48.775-04:00Buoys... oh Buoys!During the summer, the bays along the Maine coast are festooned with strands of buoys, those colorful floats that identify the locations of lobster pots (traps) and also the identity of the lobsterman. In addition, they hang the sides of cottages, <br />
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in souvenir shops, along driveways, paths through woods.<br />
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Or as seat cushions on an arty couch (in Belfast). They are everywhere!<br />
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Why not make a quilt of buoys - liberated buoys, of course, colorful, imaginative, all shapes and sizes? I did just that this summer. (Actually I pieced the top while in Michigan and hand quilted it while in Maine.)<br />
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Last October I was invited to teach a one-day quilting workshop at <a href="http://lilyshousestonington.com/">Lily's House</a> in Stonington, Maine. (click on the title page and and then on events). On Sept 7, I did that. Buoys, of course was the theme. Seven enthusiastic quilters came, some were very experienced and others just beginning. Once they got the hang of cutting/ sewing odd angles and gentle curves, they took off and had fun. As always, the hardest part was making decisions about what fabric to use.<br />
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<a href="http://lilyshousestonington.blogspot.com/">Kyra</a> provided great spaces to work in, an intimate setting where it was easy to work with each participant, a terrific lunch on the deck, and fresh scones, coffee, and melon just before we began the workshop. The whole day was lots of fun. <br />
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How did my <a href="http://quiltedundertheinfluence.blogspot.com/2013/07/getting-ready-for-maine.html">hand crank sewing machine </a>work out? GREAT! I produced six curtain panels and sewed together a bunch of squares as parts for future projects. I found I could easily manipulate the fabric through the machine. However, the larger the piece of fabric, the more support it needed to stay straight under the presser foot. A typical problem for any machine, but more so when you only have one hand to control the fabric! That is about the only limitation I felt the machine has.Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-80241537087209806372013-07-04T17:19:00.000-04:002013-07-04T17:19:15.485-04:00Almost finishesI have to admit I take my time finishing stuff. I don't love the process of all the little tasks that finish a quilt. Binding, labeling, sleeve making.... such fuss!<br />
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This past month I've been scurrying a bit. I wanted to finish up a few small things - and I have ALMOST finished the following three. I decided to show them to you anyway, lest I am unable to blog between now and when we leave for Maine.<br />
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International Liberated Medallion is quilted, bound and labeled -- just needs a sleeve. Joes, Isabeau and their friends in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, made this around my center start. I told you about it <a href="http://quiltedundertheinfluence.blogspot.com/2012/10/liberated-medallions-international.html">here</a>.<br />
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Buoys and Shadows is quilted and faced. The facing needs hemming, the quilting threads need to be buried, and I need to make a sleeve and label. This is the first piece on which I have done "serious" machine quilting. That took a bit of gumption on my part, but I am pleased with how it came out. No bubbles of fabric. I decided to leave some small spaces un-quilted - as place to rest one's eyes.<br />
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Caught at Low Tide is quilted and bound. Again, I need to hem the binding, make a sleeve and a label. Ah well, that will get done... I'm taking both buoy quilts with me to Maine. <br />
This little quilt was made by piecing different scraps together to make the background . Then I appliqued the buoys and the "seaweed and rocks". I am imagining that one is looking from pretty far away- maybe from a boat , hence the small size of all featured parts.<br />
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-21576367260487135342013-07-02T20:27:00.000-04:002013-07-02T20:27:34.536-04:00Getting ready for MaineAs some of you know, the island in Maine, where we spend a good part of the summer, has no electricity. You can read about it <a href="http://quiltedundertheinfluence.blogspot.com/2012/09/summer-highlights.html">here</a>. <br />
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This year I am taking a sewing machine! I converted a Singer Spartan from electric to hand crank. That was really easy to do. I purchased (on line) a hand crank attachment , which simply screws on to the spot that held the motor. This is not an authentic Singer hand crank. It is clearly not up to snuff quality- wise with its metal work and paint job, but heck. I'm not trying to be a purist. I want a machine that works. The crank turns the wheel and the machine sews fine, so who am I to complain?<br />
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The Spartan is a heavy little bugger. It isn't much bigger than the featherweight, but it sure weighs a lot more. I am rigging up a transport / storage box for it. Over the winter it will stay on the Island, sealed in its box with some silica gel or other absorbent crystals. Hopefully it won't rust. That is my biggest concern. <br />
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Why not take a treadle instead of a hand crank? Treadle machines are awkward and heavy to transport. I cannot imagine clambering over the side of a lobster boat into a rocking skiff and then trying to handle the transfer of such a machine. I can barely hold myself steady. I'm sure somewhere someone has done it, but I don't want that experience! Then, I'd have to cart it quite a distance to my place from the beach. How could I keep the whole thing as dry as possible over the winter? Already three counts against the treadle.<br />
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What are my big plans for using this machine this year? Making curtains for the bedroom. I have six windows in the bedroom! I've cut some muslin lengths and will sew the sleeves and hems once the final measurements are determined. <br />
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After that project is done, I will be concentrating on hand quilting a large quilt. When I take breaks, I'll play on the machine with scraps. Already I'm looking forward to NEXT summer, when I can concentrate on creating with this new toy.<br />
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-61464126676866532432013-06-26T21:38:00.001-04:002013-06-26T21:38:43.138-04:0011 - 11- 11 finally finished!The all corduroy quilt which I made for Corduroy Appreciation Day (11-11-11) is finally finished! You can read about its beginnings <a href="http://quiltedundertheinfluence.blogspot.com/2011/11/corduroy.html">here</a>.<br />
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I backed it with a piece of flannel (which I bought YEARS ago with the idea of making a nightie for myself). I did not use any batting, because I felt the corduroy was heavy enough; it didn't need the extra insulation. <br />
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I took my time quilting it using either red or light blue perle cotton #8. Sometimes I used the big stitch, but more often I reverted to a smaller stitch length, simply because that is what I am used to. I had no overall quilting plan, so each section was decided as I came to it. There are two pieces of velvet in the quilt, which I left unquilted. The binding is made from a tight velour or suede cloth, which was in the bag along with the corduroy pieces that I had received.<br />
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Friends asked me if corduroy is hard to hand quilt. Actually no. It isn't as tightly woven as one might expect. Not having a batting to needle through also helped. <br />
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This is the most free formed quilt I have ever made. The more I look at it, the more I like it!<br />
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-62196748403049074422013-06-15T16:40:00.000-04:002013-06-15T16:40:15.672-04:00A little too quiet..But, I've been busy in "school". I took an online course through QuiltUniversity.com on how to photograph quilts. Janice Baehr taught it. It wasn't the popular "take it outside" approach. It was the studio approach. My living room turned into a photographer's studio for a month. My husband lashed together a hanging system that tied to the stair railing. I hung a queen size sheet from the top rail and a couple of chains and hooks and expandable shower rod allowed me to hang the quilt at whatever height was needed. I learned to play with lighting and get better balance of light and shadows so that the quilting would show up. I also learned tricks of how to hang quilts for photographing them when you don't have quite enough room. I became somewhat more familiar with my camera, though most of the time I used the auto exposure setting. My goal is to slowly re-photograph all the quilts I have here and make a really good record of them.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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By the way, Quilt University is closing come this December. It's founder, Carol Taylor, passed away this past winter and her husband made a valiant effort to continue in her shoes, but found it to be too much. </div>
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This past month, I repeated the class I took last fall, Inspired to Design. I was surprised at how much easier it was for me the second time around. Experience does count for something! <a href="http://elizabethbarton.blogspot.com/">Elizabeth Barton</a> teaches this course. She now has a book out on that topic, which is excellent. You can order it from her -( check her blog). Her blog, which is interesting to read. Lots of thought provoking observations. </div>
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I got my piece all sewn up. It is resting on the design wall as I teach myself a some basic machine quilting tricks. ( I've never done that!) </div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-27825919921881498752013-04-08T15:12:00.003-04:002013-04-08T15:12:57.886-04:00In the shadow of the Space NeedleA while back, I told you about taking a class with Elizabeth Barton through <a href="http://quiltuniversity.com/">Quilt University</a>. It was an first time adventure into approaching quilting from an art perspective. We used photographs as the inspiration and from that we learned sketching, expanding, cropping, abstracting, deternining the "main idea", using color and the color wheel, developing a working sketch, transferring from sketch to fabric, etc. For me it was a definite challenge, but one I welcomed. I was able to progress through forum interactions with Elizabeth and others and certainly felt supported every step of the way. I have just now finished sewing the flimsy.(It is my first effort at machine applique and I used a small zigzag stitch.) I'm going to let the quilt rest a good while as I ponder quilting designs.<br />
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Here is the inspiration photo showing a part of Dale Chiuhuly's exhibit at the Seattle Center, with the Space Needle towering overhead. <br />
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Here is the result - I was really struck by the radial symmetry of the flowers when I looked at them closely and the radial symmetry of the top of the Space Needle. So that was the "main idea".<br />
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-86074135669865588222013-03-26T12:41:00.000-04:002013-03-26T12:41:24.567-04:00Sitges - just a few more quilts and the townMaybe I am saving the best for last. My favorite special exhibit was that of Maria Luisa Gutierrez, a quilter from La Rioja province of Spain (North Central, just south of Basque and Navarre). She has made wonderful pictorial quilts, beautifully pieced and quilted. I felt they reflected the nature and culture of her homeland in ways that I could appreciate. I wish I could have taken classes from her.<br />
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<br /><br />I loved being in Sitges. It is a town of narrow pedestrian streets lined with shops of all sorts, cafes, and restaurants. Many apartments were in the upper floors. No obvious vegetation, but I am sure during the summer, the balconies would be covered with draping plants. Cars are allowed only on a few streets almost all on the outskirts of the town. Everyone walks. Sitges is right on the sea, so regular walks along the water are mandatory. This walkway is lined with towering palm trees.<br />I was lucky to be there on some lovely sunny,but cool and windy days. It rained only on the day I left.<br />
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04779168612732592838noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588568024566052281.post-86407175183516987652013-03-24T20:00:00.002-04:002013-03-24T20:00:18.276-04:00Sitges - a few more quiltsAn International Invitational of Contemporary Quilts called <b>Color Improvisations</b>, curated by Nancy Crow, was the next special exhibit we saw. It has been travelling around since 2010. <div>
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Wow! Big, Bold, Loud, Quiet, Busy, Calm, Precise, not so precise - or should I say, Mysterious. Those adjectives were all represented. Here's a sampling:<div>
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From Contemporary to Ancient Traditions</div>
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As we walked in to the main exhibition hall, we were greeted by a rather puzzling exhibit. The quilts were clearly Indian, but there was no signage on any of the quilts, no introduction, nothing. I took a cursory look and went upstairs to the primary exhibits. Later I took a second look . A Hungarian quilter, Anna Dolanyi, had collected all these quilts through her travels in remote places in India. These quilts do not have a written history of who made them , they were simply part of the art and tradition of the people. </div>
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The elephant quilt was my favorite. Small pieces of fabrics make the mosaic of this quilt. It isn't pieced in a method we are familiar with. Each piece of fabric is laid very close to the next one and then many strands of yarn or string or threads (for lack of better terms) are laid over the joints and couched to hold the pieces together. </div>
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