The guys are outside trimming a massive tree in my front yard. My brother says I didn't buy a house, I bought a tree. Yes, it is big. The tree surgeon thought he could save it after last week's mighty storm that took a limb and blew it into a lady's car. It was scary. I do love leaves in my work though and have many projects, completed and in the works, that feature leaves. One is pictured here. It is available at my etsy store.
The guys are outside trimming a massive tree in my front yard. My brother says I didn't buy a house, I bought a tree. Yes, it is big. The tree surgeon thought he could save it after last week's mighty storm that took a limb and blew it into a lady's car. It was scary. I do love leaves in my work though and have many projects, completed and in the works, that feature leaves. One is pictured here. It is available at my etsy store.
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I just entered the 2012 Free Motion Challenge from Sew Cal Gal's website. I am arriving late to the party, but I completed January and February's challenges today. Thank you, Diane Gaudynski for the feather instruction and Frances Morre for the leaves technique. I hope I've done you justice. March's instructions have disappeared. So, I will skip to Don Linn and April.
Here are my photos. Here is my latest creation. It's called Purple Passion because my client is passionate about purple. I created the purple roses from her wedding dress...Really!
The woodworkers guide to quilting carries on. I discovered the usefulness of tulle fabric. I draw the quilting design I want to use onto tulle, then pin the marked tulle onto the quilt top. Then I use a washable pen to draw over the design on the tulle, remove the tulle and then I can quilt over the marked lines. It works really well. Pete watched this process and declared that he could make a better tool to accomplish the task. He took thin strips of wood and made a frame, laid the tulle overtop the frame and added four more strips of wood to make a tulle sandwich. I now have a solid, permanent rose vine template to use on all manner of quilts. What a guy!
Hansel and Gretl; He leaves a trail of woodchips to tell me where he's been and where he's gong. He counters: You leave a thread trail. What fun! I am in the midst of putting together a fower basket quilt. I used button hole stitch (by hand) to applique the baskets onto the square of Moda two-tone fabric and cut all the sashing strips. It's half-way there. With the bright blue sashing and gold corners to frame the baskets, it's quite cute. Can't wait to get it together.
I have a tendency to put the pedal to the metal when I machine sew. "I can fix that," said Pete. So he cut a little piece of wood and attached it to the foot pedal - instant speed controller! Now I only have to think about the speed of my hands when I sit and quilt. When I stand and quilt, I have the Grace Speed Controller to help me. Who would have thought a woodworker would mean so much to a quilter?
Make a template for those feathers, he says. I try with tracing paper and template plastic. He takes it to the scroll saw and, voila, I have a nearly indestructible feather temple. But wait, I also have the hole created in the wood, which works just as well. What would I do without him?
Today's lesson from the woodworker: "Measure twice. Cut once." If only I'd listen to Pete, I wouldn't keep running to the fabric store, hoping they haven't run out of the material I cut too short. Of couse, while I'm there unexpectedly, I pick up some bargains I wouldn't otherwise have had the opportunity to purchase. An empty pocketbook is what I'm going to have if I keep this up.
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