Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Spring Plaid Cape ;-)
Just finished this afternoon with my new cape using McCall's pattern # 7477 view B. And here it is: ta da!!!!
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Improv ... re-posted
Here is my Welcome to Improv top measuring 34" x 34" at the moment. It will need a huge border if I decide to make it into a lap quilt. Fun making most definitely because I started out with working with three colors to a block and then proceeded to do things in sets of threes. After a bit though, the block sizes and number of colors per block went out the window so to speak. An afternoon's work, happy and cheerful to make on a gloomy overcast day.
Welcome to Improv |
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Picnic Quilt, a work in progress
Picnic season is coming and this is the quilt I intend to use for them. Twenty-five large squares consisting of 36 mini-squares of about 2" each making this quilt so far about 60 1/2" square. I intend to add a large border or several borders and maybe some applique. Photos show several fabric possibilities for borders and backing. As easy as this quilt looks to make, it wasn't because notice the mixture and balance of each individual color ... that balancing act took some time to achieve. I am super happy with how this came out so far and sorta letting it be on the back burner simmering while I figure out how I want to finish it. :-)
Mod Spring Trees
Mod Spring Trees was done from the Painted Forest pattern featured in Simply Moderne magazine issue #6 pp. 46-53 by Scott Hansen for Blue Nickel Studios. I had a blast working on this. The challenge is to keep the branches of each tree prominent so that you whatever busy fabric you use, you can still see the contrast and the trees pop and are distinct from each other.
Improv
Here is my Welcome to Improv top measuring 34" x 34" at the moment. It will need a huge border if I decide to make it into a lap quilt. Fun making because I started out with working with three colors to a block and then proceeded to do things in sets of threes. After a bit though, the block sizes and number of colors per block went out the window so to speak. An afternoon's work, happy and cheerful to make on a gloomy overcast day.
Welcome to Improv |
Monday, March 19, 2018
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Modern Teapots
My Modern Teapots quilt started from asking a quilt store owner what she was working on. She was applying fusible applique teapots using an adorable pattern called Teapot Legacy by Love Quilt Patterns. I purchased the pattern and then waited for some time to start it, admiring it but always having other things to do. Then one day this past fall I decided to do it ... got tired of it sitting there drawing me to make it. Flipping through Kaffe Fassett's Museum Quilts book, the Wedding Snowball Quilt on pages 32-33 and 84-85 captured my attention. I loved how he used the wall and floor tile to display his quilt. I took that as inspiration to put my own spin on the teapot pattern mentioned above and voila here it is. Ta da!!
Each teapot is hand appliqued, which I immensely enjoyed doing. I love the bright colorful teapots. The border is composed of 228 small 2" finished sized blocks surrounding 16 blocks each 8" finished size. The quilt measures approximately 44" x 44" without the binding. I think it would be fun to maybe later come back and applique or embroidery further embellishment on some or all of the teapots. Right now I think they are pretty just as they are. This quilt definitely makes me smile.
Modern Teapots |
Sapphires and Rubies Quilt
Sapphires and Rubies |
This is my Sapphires and Rubies quilt which measures approximately 60" x 60" without binding. I used the pickle dish quilt pattern from Kaffe Fassett's Quilt Romance book, pp.68-72,122-123 and color contrast inspiration from Material Obsession 2 book by Kathy Doughty and Sarah Fielke pp.139. On the back I experimented with exaggerated block sizes and an enlarged applique pattern from Elegant Garden Block 21 pocket-sized patterns from Laundry Basket Quilts. Using the same size as four of the pickle dish blocks combined to determine the size of my nine patch blocks on the back, basically 20 1/2"blocks. I had so much fun with that over-sized applique!!! Definitely wanna do more of that. It's my firm belief that the back of quilts are often forgotten; a lot of opportunity for a little love in the design department, if you ask me. :-)
Status: In line to be quilted, needs binding.
Uppercase submittal!!!
Here's where you can see my submission in a public online gallery at:
uppercase submittal for Cate Smart public gallery .
daily painting
Daily painting #2
The thought of painting faces is not my first choice or second or even third. It's way down there on the list .... but here I approached it differently. I just focused on the intensity of the shadows and shading. I tried to get their features in the right places, and honestly they all look different from the magazine pages that I got these from. However, they DO look like people. Big improvement!!! Here Here!!!
I'll go with that. ;-)
The thought of painting faces is not my first choice or second or even third. It's way down there on the list .... but here I approached it differently. I just focused on the intensity of the shadows and shading. I tried to get their features in the right places, and honestly they all look different from the magazine pages that I got these from. However, they DO look like people. Big improvement!!! Here Here!!!
I'll go with that. ;-)
Friday, March 9, 2018
Smaller projects
Daily Painting
Yep, I started. My daily painting. Got a long ways to go but that's ok. Point is to start and to broaden by skills. And I am definitely rusty. Haven't painted in a while ... but that's ok ... let's just see where this goes.
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