Recently I discovered that there was a large light table at my husband's workplace so after getting permission to use it, he signed me in and I spent a day happily tracing out the pieces. Not a soul noticed me there until I was getting ready to leave then all my patterns and fusible web sparked a few questions....apparently no one has used the light table in years! Then I had to use my homemade milk crate light table that I made when I was 15 to piece everything together. My back and knees were killing me! lol I would love to have the workplace light table in my basement!
Fusing pieces using my pressing mat and my milk crate light table.
The key phrase for a few days was "watch the iron...it's hot!" and "Mom, where can we walk/sit?"
Fusing to background
Ready to layer and quilt
I am not a confident free motion quilter. I love the process of MAKING a quilt but get completely stumped with the actual quilting. I think it was all those beginner quilting classes that ended with the dreaded phrase of "Quilt as Desired"! Seriously...how do you desire when you have never quilted anything before or been taught anything about quilting design, thread, etc? Eventually, Quilt as Desired meant...send to my friend Pat! Pat always knows what to do! Now I live in NS and Pat lives in ON and I'm thinking I should actually learn something about quilting design and improve my new free motion skills that I learned when I made the sunflower!
On Wednesday, my husband and kids sent me to my sewing room to take a break from life while they prepared supper. I have been watching a Thread Art workshop on Craftsy by Lola Jennings so thought I would give it a try. I traced out an enlarged photo on some scrap muslin, threaded my machine with some charcoal thread and set to work without worrying about mistakes. It is very liberating to just play!! I'm not quite finished...still some detail in the background to do and the post of the play structure. It turned out much better than I expected (and now wishing I had grabbed better fabric!)
LOVE your poppy!!! It's so vibrant!
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Thanks Carol. Every time I walk by it I can't help but smile. It tells me I need to add more vibrant colours to my stash and go in that direction.
DeleteI had to comment here as well. I LOVE your thread painting. I hope you decide to do lots more! :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks Dahn. It was lots of fun. My daughter thought it was "freaky"~scary but not that I am colouring it in it is starting to grown on her. I'm simply using pencil crayon to colour it in. I think I have definitely caught the bug and will do more.
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