Rainy Day People 2 has been posted on the SAQA Auction site. It’s on page 1b about half way down. While you’re there, check out all the other awesome quilts. And there will be lots more coming.
Rainy Day People 3 is finished and submitted. I’m very happy with it, but wish I had made it a bit bigger at the top. By the time I trimmed it straight and folded the binding to the back for a clean finish (using this wonderful tutorial, by the way), I lost at least a 1/2 inch of the sky. Oh well, I’ll know better for next time.
This quilt – and a few others – still need sleeves and labels. That’s going to be my project for this week, and I’m not going to start another quilt until I’m all caught up with sleeves and labels.
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Rainy Day People 3 is almost finished – ‘just’ the zigzag stitching, sandwiching, quilting and binding. The entry deadline is March 15th, so I’m concentrating on getting this finished today or tomorrow.
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I finished two quilts this week. Rainy Day People 2 is on its way to the SAQA Auction, and Scrappy Star has been listed in my Etsy shop.
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Worldwide Quilting Day – Check out the button I added on the right, with a link to a website with lots of information about Worldwide Quilting Day – March 16, 2013. I belong to an online group of quilters who sell on Etsy [and they are a terrific support group, too!] called the Quiltsy Team. Many of our members will be creating our own interpretation of the Sawtooth Star block to celebrate Worldwide Quilting Day, then we will be promoting each others work. Here’s mine – a mug rug/mini quilt with a scrappy, wonky star. It still needs quilting and binding, then I’ll list it in my Etsy shop.
Rainy Day People 2 – the 12 x 12 inch version for the SAQA 2013 Auction – is almost done. I stitched the buildings, people and umbrellas before sandwiching the quilt. After sandwiching the quilt, I sewed ‘rain’ with a variegated black-white-gray thread. I love how it looks! I’ll get it bound and labeled this week, and mailed to SAQA. 
Next up is Rainy Day People 3 for the Fibre Art Network exhibit FibreScapes. The entry deadline is March 15th, so I have to work fast on this one, but I’m planning to make it very similar to Rainy Day People 2, so most of the design decisions have already been made.
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My Graffiti quilt is finished. I called it “The Writing is on the Wall”. I fused all the graffiti elements to the background, then quilted the whole thing with a brick pattern. I’ve entered it in the SAQA Text Messages exhibit, and I’ll find out in March if it’s accepted.
Last night I did a trunk show presentation for the Textile Arts Guild of Richmond (TAGOR). I showed them more than 40 quilts. They just barely fit into the two travel bins.
Inbox surprise – Look what I found in my Inbox this morning – those are my coffee cups in the top photo!
On my design wall – The umbrella people are back. They first appeared last October when I was in Houston, then again in January as an entry to Cloth Paper Scissors. 
I’m still fascinated with them, so they are going to be the subject of two more quilts – this time in a city scene, with perspective. The first is a 12 x 12 inch quilt for the SAQA 2013 Auction. Here’s my sketch, and the cut-out but not-yet-fused fabrics.
The second is for the Fibre Art Network exhibit FibreScapes exhibit, which will debut in conjunction with Quilt Canada show in Penticton BC in May. This exhibit requires that all submissions measure 17 x 26 inches. I plan to use similar colors in this one.
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Last year I joined SAQA – Studio Art Quilt Associates. SAQA’s mission is to promote the art quilt through education, exhibitions, professional development, documentation, and publications. I’m working on my first entry to a juried SAQA exhibit – Text Messages. The unifying theme will be text on quilts.
I have a lot of ideas for quilts relating to text, but due to time constraints – the entry deadline is February 28th – I settled on just one idea. I decided to focus on the most colorful, creative kind of text I could think of – graffiti. I’ve had great fun with this one! Here’s a sneak peak, before fusing.
My other text-related ideas won’t go to waste though, because Quilting Arts magazine has a reader challenge titled Text Me! The deadline is not until March 29th, and the size is 8 x 8 inches, so I won’t have a problem getting one or more done.
Scrap Management – I have a huge collection of scraps, and I like to sort them by color in clear plastic freezer bags, preferably with the slide closer – so they stay closed and don’t spill everywhere when I pick them up! The problem has been that my scrap collection keeps growing until the bags overflow. I was thrilled to find some Jumbo freezer bags recently – 14 x 16 inches – with sliders. Last night I grabbed the 25-30 bags of various sizes that have been housing my scraps, and sorted them all into the jumbo bags (except the yellow scraps, which had to go in a smaller bag, because I only have 10 jumbo bags). I sorted them as follows: yellow, orange/rust, red/pink, purple/burgundy, blue, green, beige/brown, black/white/gray, solids, fused scraps. How do you sort your scraps?
Worldwide Quilting Day – Check out the button I added on the right, with a link to a website with lots of information about Worldwide Quilting Day – March 16, 2013.
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My butterfly pieces turned out very well – so bright and colorful!
I referred to this tutorial for wrapping the fabric on the artist canvas. I hadn’t done this before, but it was really easy.
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A year ago, I made an art quilt for a silent auction at the annual fund-raising gala of a local non-profit organization – SHARE Society. The logo for their event is a tree covered with stylized butterflies. With their permission, I replicated the tree logo in fabric. At the right is their logo, and my art quilt.
This year I’m making two 12 x 12 inch fiber art pieces with some of the same butterflies. I’m going to mount them on artist canvases. Here they are before fusing or stitching. I still need to add the butterfly bodies and antennas, fuse them to the background, and do some satin stitching around each butterfly.
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The VMQG February challenge is to create a block (or blocks) for a group quilt, using bright pinks and oranges, with a background of natural colored linen. The second part of the challenge is to try something new. Working with linen is a new experience for me, but I decided to take it one step further.
I’ve been looking for an opportunity to try Rose Hughes’ Fast-Piece Applique technique. Rose has written a book about the technique, called Dream Landscapes, and you can find a link to a video tutorial here. It’s a way of doing raw-edge applique without using fusible web. She recommends couching over the raw-edges after sandwiching the quilt. Because I was making blocks for a group quilt, instead I satin-stitched the raw edges, using tear-away stabilizer. First I made a block with one heart, then – because I love a challenge! – I made a block with 3 interlocked hearts. I like the technique and will definitely use it again. Here are photos of the front and back of my blocks.
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