Vest, Quilt

First, thanks to everyone who commented on my scrap quilt. It was fun to do and good for times that I didn't want to think. I'll be doing another.

Here is a vest I did years ago from a silk remnant I bought in Berkeley. There were Ultrasuede spirals left, so they went into a quilt.

This is a detail of the hand stitching and beading.

The background is pieced from a batik and a hand dye. It feels right to be using the stuff that has been around too long.

Quilt

A friend showed us a scrap quilt she had made where you cut strips of several sizes and many fabrics, then put them in a sack and take them out randomly to sew 7 strips. You start with the 6 lightest sets and after using 3, add 3 more sets. It was fun, and I like the effect I got when I reversed every other strip before sewing it all together. I used 57 fabrics and am thinking of doing another one.

Art, Take a Stitch Tuesday

Look at the wonderful piece of artwork that I hve from Sue http://suebleiweiss.com/blog  It just glows in person. I'm very lucky and put it in the dining room where I bead and can see it.

 

This week's stitch from Sharonb http://www.pintangle.com/ is the Buttonhole Picot in 2 versions. The blue has a Bullion Stitch decorating it; the green chain stitches.

Class

I've been taking the Electric Quilt class by Lyric Kinard called Artist's Toolbox. I haven't done as many of the exercises as I wanted, but it got me going on some pieces that have been on my mind, so that is good. The exercises are there to spur me on in the future.

One idea is to extend the picture from a photo or a magazine. It really makes you look. I have a notebook that I've put black and white photos in, because they intrigue me-so graphic.

Leaves are always something I work with, so this picture was perfect to extend. The white dots are stitching.

Vest, Quilt

A friend had given me the fabric with the silver/gold flowers, because she couldn't figure out what to do with it. It was hard to find something to use with it. Black made it die, most grays weren't right, but I finally found one that worked. I machined the flowers and attached them to create a border around the vest. I have worn it to business dinners.

I wanted to use more of the fabric and cut out three putting interfacing behind them for extra body. The gold leaf trim I had gotten one time shopping with a friend. It was just too cute not to buy. The center panel is raw silk. The outside fabric was in my clothing fabric stash. I used the raw silk again for the binding. It's machine quilted.

Take a Stitch Tuesday, Quilt

This week Sharonb at http://www.pintangle.com/ gave us the Picot Chain Stitch to try. I don't know how she comes up with so many new to me stitches. Worked close, it makes a braid. It also moves in any direction like the regular chain stitch.

In between projects, I've been joining scraps of the violet, green, blue, bluegreen colors. Eventally, I joined the blocks formed and now have a lap quilt. http://www.threecreativestudio.com/ has using scraps as the technique of the month just as I finished this-good timing. I will make something else too-like using scraps.

Fiberactions

This time the theme has been Transformation, So I took one of those lovely napkins and used it for the appliques. The greens in the top are silks scraps my German Sister-in-law gave me. The background are my hand dyes.

This detail is mounted on Timtex, so it stands above the surface. I used a gold pen to ink the white edges then had to add some details with it on the front when the pen decided to jump and color part of it while I was doing the edge. Part of creating is trying to cover those errors.