{"id":1513,"date":"2013-10-23T17:04:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T00:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2013-10-23T17:21:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T00:21:34","slug":"on-my-design-wall-2013-10-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2013\/10\/23\/on-my-design-wall-2013-10-23\/","title":{"rendered":"On my design wall &#8211; 2013.10.23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on the portrait quilt, and I have two of the faces done.\u00a0 I used some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/tips-tutorials-and-more\/dying-fabric-with-tea-and-coffee\/\" target=\"_blank\">my skin-tone fabrics<\/a> for some of the facial features, but for most of them I used machine stitching.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t show in this photo, but I did stitch some very light gray hair on the great-grandfather.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll stitch a bit of hair on the baby&#8217;s head once the quilt is assembled.\u00a0 One more face to add features to, then I&#8217;ll decide on a background color, and fuse it all together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN2821.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1514\" alt=\"DSCN2821\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN2821.jpg?resize=640%2C655\" width=\"640\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN2821.jpg?resize=1000%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN2821.jpg?resize=293%2C300&amp;ssl=1 293w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN2821.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN2821.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I needed a bit of a break from the portrait quilt, so I took a couple of hours off and made two very modern looking dog portraits.\u00a0 They&#8217;re samples for a class I may be doing soon for a local quilt guild &#8211; if enough people sign up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN2814.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1515\" alt=\"DSCN2814\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN2814.jpg?resize=640%2C269\" width=\"640\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN2814.jpg?resize=1024%2C431&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN2814.jpg?resize=300%2C126&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN2814.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN2814.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2013\/10\/16\/new-quilt-show-and-on-my-design-wall-2013-10-16\/\" target=\"_blank\">Artists&#8217; Reception for the Abstracted exhibition<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laconnerquilts.com\/exhibits\/current-exhibits\/abstracted\" target=\"_blank\">La Conner Quilt Museum<\/a> was a lot of fun.\u00a0 The people who attended seemed very impressed with the show.\u00a0 We also had a chance to see some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laconnerquilts.com\/exhibits\/current-exhibits\/inspired-to-design-art-quilts-by-elizabeth-barton\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Barton&#8217;s quilts<\/a>, which are wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m linking up with these blogs for WiP Wednesday.\u00a0 Click on the buttons below to see all the people participating and check out their projects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freshlypieced.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1109\/5159705972_49be14a673_m.jpg?resize=109%2C109\" width=\"109\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"W_I_P__Wednesday___________Link-up___@_The_Needle_&amp;____Thread_Network\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/W_I_P__Wednesday___________Link-up___%40_The_Needle_____Thread_Network.png?resize=158%2C103\" width=\"158\" height=\"103\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\" http:\/\/estheraliu.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Esther\u2019s Blog\" src=\" http:\/\/i1121.photobucket.com\/albums\/l501\/estheraliu\/esthersblog180pix.jpg\" width=\"153\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on the portrait quilt, and I have two of the faces done.\u00a0 I used some of my skin-tone fabrics for some of the facial features, but for most of them I used machine stitching.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t show &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2013\/10\/23\/on-my-design-wall-2013-10-23\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,40,8,3],"tags":[14,29,37,17,67],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-quilts","category-portait-quilts","category-quilt-shows","category-wip-wednesday","tag-art-quilt","tag-dog-portrait","tag-portrait-quilt","tag-quilt-show","tag-wip-wednesday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2SZWx-op","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2122,"url":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2014\/07\/30\/off-my-design-wall-2014-07-30\/","url_meta":{"origin":1513,"position":0},"title":"Off my design wall &#8211; 2014.07.30","author":"TerryAske","date":"July 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The portrait quilt of Thomas and Kalina is finished, and has been presented to the happy newly-wedded couple.\u00a0 Now it can be revealed in full glorious surrealistic color. 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I'll be teaching a workshop on freezer paper piecing at the end of the month, and I'm working on a class sample.\u00a0 I'm going to make bright red leaves on a light taupe background. \u00a0 \u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art quilts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art quilts","link":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/category\/art-quilts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Japanese Maple leaves-001","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Japanese-Maple-leaves-001-300x151.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2127,"url":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2014\/07\/30\/on-my-design-wall-2014-07-30\/","url_meta":{"origin":1513,"position":3},"title":"On my design wall &#8211; 2014.07.30","author":"TerryAske","date":"July 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm working on and\/or thinking about several projects right now.\u00a0 Most of them, though, I can't show you any photos. 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