Archive for month: April, 2013
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| Barbara O’Steen, Marylee Drake, and Rosalyn Duffy at the Contemporary QuiltArt Association’s (CQA) booth |
This past aweekend I enjoyed going to Stashfest, the fund-raiser for the La Conner Quilt and Textile museum. As a contributor in several ways for this event, it was exciting to see it come to fruition.
The biggest effort I was involved in was in making fabric with the Contemporary QuiltArt Association (CQA), as a vendor for Stashfest. I got an early entry and have photos to share of all the fantastic unusual fabrics that were available at this event.
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| Donna DeShazo from CQA with more of our handmade fabrics |
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| Ice-dyed and other hand-dyed fabrics |
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| More of the CQA collection |
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| Annie Lewis with her fabulous hand silk-screened fabrics |
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| Hand-dyed Kona Cottons |
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| Hand-dyed Kona Cottons |
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| Vintage Kimono Silks |
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| Margot Myer’s NW Batiked Cottons |
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| Barbara Kanaya (of CQA) working at Mary Ogwell’s booth |
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| Mary Ogwell’s West African cottons |
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| Patricia Beleya’s Japanese Yukata fabrics |
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| Early-bird shoppers get a spring on all the unique fabrics! |
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| Patricia Beleya’s incredible Yukata fabrics |
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| Rack of “insider visits” for sale- studio tours of NW Quilt Artists (mine on top!) |
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| Business starting to pick up as doors open |
I’ll be getting some photos up soon from a new fiber exhibition that I went to last week, as well as my finishing my Salsa quilt and the start of a freemotion quilting practice quilt. Make sure and stop in this coming weekend and link your blog up for Design Wall Weekends!
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| CQA Surface Design Party | Viewing for Inspiration | Designing, Stenciling & Making Marks on Fabric |
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| Working on sample of True Triangles |
I’ve had some wonderful comments on my Salsa blocks, as well as a few questions on how I did certain aspects, including my background of my most recent block, Chili Pepper. Today, I’m going to go over the triangles freemotion quilting design.
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| Practice and notes from my sketchbook – True Triangles |
I started working out this triangle design in my sketchbook, because I wanted a way to have triangles, but not a bunch of connecting lines or other angles.
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| More notes from my sketchbook |
The main trick with this design is to make your first triangle and then backtrack (or “travel stitch” as Leah Day of the Freemotion Quilting Project calls it) to the middle of one of the sides of your triangle, where you start the first corner of your next triangle.
Difficulty: Beginner- The main difficulty with this design is in getting your sides of your triangles straight and in carefully backtracking, so your stitches stay on the line of the original triangle’s line.
OK, I’m still working out the bugs on how to do a nice job on videography for my tutorials, so bear with me. I cut down time on this video by speeding it up a bit during part of the sewing, but I need a bit more practice on my hand position while videoing and also adding audio to the part which has increased speed.
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| True Triangles used in the background of my Chili Pepper block |
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| Christina’s Salsa quilt (in progress) |
I don’t know about you, but I generally have too much on my design wall… and sometimes the things that are up aren’t what I’m currently working on! Not only am I working on finishing up my Salsa Quilt, I have my Waterfall colorplay quilt, my little “Waiting” piece, and fabric to start a piece for the Outdoor “Salsa in the Sun” show. I guess if they’re up on my wall, I don’t really count them as a UFO… which implies that you’ve sort of given up on it.
By the way, I’m just finishing up my tutorial on “True Triangles”, the freemotion quilting design which I’ve created for the Chili Pepper block. Check back on Sunday (April 7) to see the video tutorial!
So, what do you have on your design wall? By the way, if you don’t yet have your own design wall, click here for a great tutorial on how to make one for yourself from Quilts by Jen.