I don’t have much to show today.
I’m working on the tree quilt, and will have a new post soon about my progress on it.
I’m going to make a mini mixed media piece for the Cloth Paper Scissors reader challenge. Remember my umbrella people? (I still have plans to make a quilt with them.) I’m going to make 4″ x 4″ version, using some mini artist’s canvases I happen to have in the right size.
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I made 2 mug rugs for Arita from her beautiful peach, yellow, orange and pink scraps. It was fun to work with these lovely colors – but it appears I neglected to take any photos after I finished them! But you can see them in the photo above – Arita is third from the left in the front row. And I received this delightful fabric container for my ‘Precious Snippets’ (what a great description for scraps!), made by Heather D. from my scraps.
I learned at the guild meeting that one of our VMQG group quilts has been been submitted to the juried quilt show at QuiltCon, the inaugural convention and quilt show of The Modern Quilt Guild, which will be held February 21-24, 2013 in Austin, TX. Our quilt was put together and quilted by Paul, and it’s beautiful.
An online group I belong to – a team of quilters who sell on Etsy, called the Quiltsy Team made a group quilt last year, which we called the Sisterhood of the Travelling Quilt, because the blocks were created by members from from Canada, Israel and 22 different U.S. states. It has also been entered in the QuiltCon show.
My entry to the Quilting Arts Magazine reader challenge ‘Tea or Coffee?’ was selected as a finalist, so I will be sending it to Quilting Arts Magazine, and I will hope to see it published in the April/May 2013 issue.
As you probably know, I sell my quilts on Etsy where I have an online shop. Etsy sends out a daily email called Etsy Finds, and today it features my self-portrait quilt. I’m getting a lot of views on my shop today!
The piecing of the tree quilt is progressing well.
The tree quilt technique requires very careful and precise piecing, so it was a pleasure to take a break with some improv piecing for the VMQG scrap bag challenge and swap. This is the back of the mug rug I’m making. I’ll show the front after our guild meeting on Monday.
An online group I belong to – a team of quilters who sell on Etsy, called the Quiltsy Team has started a group project to help one of our members, Krystyna of www.etsy.com/shop/SomewhereByTheSea, who lost her house and contents during Hurricane Sandy. We’re going to make a rail fence quilt for her. I’m making 2 blocks from these batik fabrics.
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The piecing is progressing well. The sections outlined in lime green are completely pieced. I hope to get a lot more done today.
This technique requires a lot of precision. I’ve learned from experience with previous quilts I’ve made, that the more careful and accurate I am when sewing the pieces and sub-sections together, the better the larger sections will go together.
First, I want to tell you about a new fabric shop, Quilt Stash, Squared. Their mission is “to get all the wonderful fabric sitting in quilters’ bins, boxes and closets and market them in an on-line shop”. They are located in the Vancouver area, so have very reasonable shipping costs to Canada. Plus they ship to the US and internationally. Of course, when I heard about this shop, I had to browse through their selection, and of course I found some fabrics I loved. Here’s what I got. And by the way – quick delivery, nicely wrapped and great quality!
I completed my entry to the Quilts Arts reader challenge – Coffee or Tea? This is what I said about my entry:
The only thing better than my morning cup of java, would be to meet a friend for coffee. And of course, our coffee would be served on a mug rug! I assembled the coffee cups with fusible web, then adhered them to the pieced background. I made the steam with two layers of white tulle stitched to the background, surrounded with machine-stitched curlicues.
I’ll find out in about a week if my entry will be accepted for publication.
I’m working on a mug rug for a fun scrap bag challenge and swap through the VMQG, but I can’t post photos yet, because my recipient might recognize her fabric, and that would spoil the surprise. Oh, and check out the VMQG member spotlight (I’m the member featured this month).
And, I’ve got a lot accomplished on the tree quilt. More details here about my progress.
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I’ve finished selecting fabric for the tree quilt, and starting sewing it together. So far the bottom part of the tree trunk and landscape area behind it, is sewn together.
The technique I’m using for this quilt involves drawing the full size pattern on freezer paper, then cutting the pieces apart and ironing each piece to the back of the fabric. I pin all the pieces on the design wall to ensure everything works together, before commencing sewing. All seam are straight lines (no curves at all), so I leave the freezer paper on the back of each piece as I sew it together. On past quilts I’ve made with this technique, I used my 1/4″ foot. This time, I’m using my walking foot, and it’s working really well. No slippage, even on the really long seams across the width of the quilt.
I finished my entry to the Cloth Paper Scissors reader challenge – Art Supply Doodle. I ‘doodled’ with thread on fabric. Here’s my entry, and its inspiration.
I’m working on my entry to the Quilts Arts reader challenge – Coffee or Tea? I’m definitely a coffee person – at least in the morning – and the only thing better than my cup of java, is sharing coffee with a friend. I’m experimenting with how to make the ‘steam’ using tulle.
I submitted my entry to QuiltCon for these 3 quilts.
I may still enter one more in the Miniature category. The deadline is November 30th – don’t’ forget to enter your modern quilt(s) – it’s all online, and it’s easy!
Last of all – I just want to point out that the coleus quilt I posted last week is a photo I printed on fabric, then enhanced with free-motion quilting around the leaves and on the veins. I’ve had a lot of lovely comments on how realistic my quilt looks, but I think those people may not have realized it was a photo. My art quilts aren’t quite that realistic looking!
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As I was cutting fabric for the last section of the tree foliage, I realized I didn’t have quite enough. Fortunately, when I got the blue fabric, I picked up a coordinating print.
I’ve used some of it on the left side, and I think it adds even more depth to the foliage. So a happy mishap!
I still need to go back and replace some of the original foliage fabric on the left side.
I’ve selected fabrics for the ground. I ‘just’ need to decide exactly where each one will go, which will somewhat depend on the size of each piece of fabric. Then lots more cutting and pinning. Those little trees – the smallest ones are cut from a piece of fabric. The larger ones I made by scanning the fabric, enlarging it on my computer, then printing them. They are just printed on paper for now, until I decide exactly how many and what size I need. Then I’ll print them on fabric.
Below is my Kona Modern challenge quilt. This was the VMQG challenge using Cynthia Frenette‘s Kona Modern Quilts fabric for Robert Kaufman Fabrics. We had our big reveal at our guild meeting on Monday.
This weekend, I plan to work on all of the following:
the tree quilt
the current Quilts Arts reader challenge
the Cloth Paper Scissors reader challenge
enter some quilts in the QuiltCon modern quilt show
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I’m working on a new commissioned quilt. When I posted this quilt in my Etsy shop, I received a request to make a similar one in a slightly larger size. The original is 8 x 8 inches, and is a photo of a coleus plant that I printed onto prepared fabric, then enhanced with free-motion quilting and accent squares of fabric.
The commissioned one will be 8.5 by 11.5 inches. The challenge is that my printer will only print a photo that’s 8.25 x 10.25 inches – so how do I make it an inch longer? I realized I could print it out in 2 parts, and overlap one over the other. That led me to the realization I could overlap one of the leaves over a border to give it a dimensional look. And, this opens a whole new world of possibilities of what I can do with photos printed on fabric!
The photos below show the photo printed on 2 pieces of fabric, then the top part trimmed, then the top part fused to the bottom part. The 4th photo shows the free-motion stitching done, and the accent squares in place but not yet fused or stitched (excuse the shadow of my arm in the last photo).
Kona Modern Challenge – this quilt is now quilted, and half the binding is done. Sorry, no new photos. I’ll post one when it’s all finished.
. This was so much fun! My lower mainland fibre art group meets once a month. In January our activity was making a fibre version of a ‘paper doll’. We were each given a 24 inch high doll shape made of interfacing. We were paired with another member and instructed to each make a ‘paper doll’ of the other person. I was paired with Jennie @jenniecole_artandquilts She made a doll representing me and I made one representing her.
There were almost 30 dolls displayed at our February meeting. I didn’t get photos of all of them but this is a good representation.
. Went for a walk today on the Pattullo Bridge. It has been closed to traffic as its replacement is now fully open. This weekend the old bridge is open to pedestrians and cyclists. After that it will be permanently closed, and will be demolished over the next 2 years.
I will be sad to see it go and I’m glad I got to say goodbye today....
commissioned quilt. When I posted 
