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| Remember Express Your Love II? Now you can see what all that work with hexagons was for. It's not done yet, but I am on the home stretch. |
Tips, Thoughts and Techniques:
Brrrrr! It has been bitter cold where I live this past week. How cold was it? I would wake up to subzero single digit temperatures. That is Fahrenheit without taking into account windchill factors. It sounds even worse in Celsius with morning temperatures at -20. We are out of the deep freeze next week, but can look forward to a week of snow flurries. What does a fiber artist do when it snows? Use the snow to dye fabric of course. Actually, I rarely dye fabric, but I have tried this technique and it produces fascinating results. If you don't have snow you can use ice. Here are a few links each with a slightly different take on how to dye with snow or ice:
- Pro Chemical & Dye - Snow Dyeing
- Dharma Trading Company Learn How to Ice Dye
- Tie Dye - Ice Dye Technique
Personally, I use cold weather as an excuse to hunker down in my studio. Here is what I managed to accomplish this past week.
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| Free motion quilting is started on Trio. It will finish at approximately 30" H x 40" W. I am very pleased by how building up thread helps draw attention to the individual floor boards. |
1) Trio - finish quilting the background - Well that was a little ambitious of a goal. However, I did make a great start.
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| Two years of practicing free motion quilting is really paying off. I am able to travel stitch nearly invisibly and can navigate on the fly. This is a detail from Trio. |
2) Leah Day's weekly assignments:
a) Foundation Piecing
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| Close up of the goddess's face in Express Your Love II. The pattern is Leah Day's. The fabric choices are Gwyned's. |
i) Finish piecing the 43 hexagons required for the goddess's face. - Done!
ii) Remove the paper foundations from the hexagons. - Done!
iii) Mold the hexagons to the face foundation. - Done!
iv) Place and baste the face to the quilt. - I placed but did not baste the face to the quilt.
v) Bonus - I started basting the next 90 hexagons necessary to make up the body of the goddess.
b) Free Motion Quilting - I opted to postpone this practice motif since it was very similar to other motifs AND I was getting lots of FMQ in working on Trio.
3) Visioning Project - Do the next two assignments from my Photoshop Elements class. - Done!
How will I keep myself occupied next week? Here is my game plan:
1) Trio - finish quilting the background
a) Foundation Piecing -
i) Baste the face to the quilt.
ii) Start piecing the goddess's body "fabric" with the basted hexagons.
b) Free Motion Quilting
3) Visioning Project - Do the next two assignments from my Photoshop Elements class.
I am now linking up to two blogs on Friday's. The first is Leah Day's Free Motion Quilting Project and the second is Nina Marie's Off the Wall Fridays.
