Category: Work in progress
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Work in progress: painting hair again
I spent yesterday making a fresh start. I decided to get a fresh piece of fabric and paint the hair again. I started by going to my supply cabinets. I pulled out each of the paints and inks that I was willing to consider and I painted a sample. There were several important characteristics I…
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Work in progress: painting hair
I started working on a new quilt. I was playing with the design last week, combining several photos of a dear friend who kindly agreed to pose for me. In my mind, I wanted to do a very loose, colorful, watercolor-like painting. I wanted to use my favorite Tsukineko All-Purpose inks, but in a different…
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Word for 2011
So many quilt artists on the QuiltArt list are choosing a word for the year. Some have chosen great words like acceptance, act, balance, believe, breathe, build, change, create, efficiency, eliminate, experimentation, explore, finish, freedom, “git’erdone”, gusto, “have fun”, hone, inspired, joy, “just do it”, lighten, “no limits”, organize, patience, peace, perseverance, “quilt!”, repurpose, and…
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Spreading out
My poor hubby…I guess he should be used to it by now, but I’ve been spreading out this week. I’ve been working through some color “sketches.” Each one is a 24″ square fused quilt top. I have a vague goal of doing one a day for a while. I figure this project might make a…
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Tupperware to the rescue!
I hope you haven’t minded my little stroll down memory lane as I say goodbye to the Christmas ornaments I made for my two daughters. I have been doing other stuff too. Mostly simple color exercises. I’m having fun using (gasp!) traditional quilt blocks to explore color theory. I’m also doing a few other compositions…
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Embrace Version 3, continued
I was blessed to have time in my studio again today. Okay, it’s my fault that this week was so busy. I insisted on not one, but two trips to Ikea. Poor hubby. He spoils me and I like it! Anyway, I spent more time replacing colors. Considering the fact that I never work in…
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Embrace Version 3
Last night I cleared off my work table and began reworking “Embrace.” This time I started with yellow-oranges on the right and I plan on loosely gradating the colors to yellow-greens on the left. I didn’t get quite finished, but I think I’m liking this direction much more that the hand-dyed version. But it will…
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It’s a blustery day
Today is a blustery day. Weather.com said winds were up to 35 mph, although I heard up to 50 mph on the news. When we went on our hour-long walk this morning, there were no other walkers on the path. I wanted to go to Ikea today, but decided to postpone it. DH was all…
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Embrace Version 2
I’m not so sure I like working in black and white alone, so I decided to put the first version of Embrace up on the design wall so I could look at it a while. Back to my fabric stash. This time I pulled out a generous stack hand-dyed fabric. It was pretty much my…
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Auditioning fabrics and ideas
Today was all about auditioning fabrics. I made some guesses and filled in all my shapes, but I definitely think I’ll need to do some editing. Some areas seem too dark. In some areas I think two fabrics visually merge together, which I think I want to avoid. I was thinking about how much I…