Category: Planning the Quilts
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When Bored…
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Today, I took an unexpected sick day when I realized that I needed to deal with both a dentist appointment and what looks to be an infected tick bite (we don’t mess with Lyme disease up here in the northeast!). I feel fine, but I just needed to deal with…
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Moving On
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So now that the Tracy Arm quilt top is (nearly) finished and all I need to do is sew on the borders, I need to come up with another project to do. Because, of course I do. My ADHD would ask nothing less of me! Seriously, though. I am headed…
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When the Weather is Awful…
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…spend the day in the sewing room. However, I did not get done what I had planned. I thought today would be the day I projected the abstract iceberg image up on the wall and figured out what fabrics would go in which spaces. I was completely wrong. Instead, I…
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And Sometimes, the Serendipitous Happens…
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So today, I went looking for more fabrics for the Tracy Arm iceberg quilt and the abstract iceberg quilt. I needed water and sky for the Tracy Arm one, and I just wanted to see if I could find more of the silvers/whites/ice blue-greens for the abstract one. I went…
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Fabric Challenges
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A few blog posts ago, I mentioned that I’ve had to get over my dislike of batiks. Let’s look at that a little. Batiks are…not my style. Generally, at least. Up to this point in my quilting journey, I have used them very little. I tend to use bright colors…
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Choosing Fabrics
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If you’re not going to print the photograph onto fabric and play with it that way, you’re probably going to need to find some fabrics that in some way mimic what you’re trying to capture of the photo. Colors. Shapes. Mood. All of those can be recreated in some way…
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Printing Photos
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Two of the quilts I’m working on involve images printed on fabric. There are two ways you can do this: either print the image out yourself on your home printer or get a service to do it for you. Both of these have worked for me at different times, so…
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What’s the Process?
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When I was going through the process of building the Horseshoe Bend quilt, I wasn’t quite sure what form this blog would take. So I documented a few things, but not nearly enough to walk anyone through the process of doing it for themselves. Now that I’ve got one quilt…
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Choosing Images, Part II
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I had another photo from Norway that I was sure I could turn into a small fabric image using a type of layered applique technique I learned in a class taught by someone in my guild. The image is fairly simple – a road, some rocks in the foreground, and…
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What Works and What Doesn’t (Mostly What Doesn’t)
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When I started working in earnest on this project, I started with the images. With over 45,000 images on my hard drive, there’s a lot to sort through. I have my favorites – the images that I come back to again and again when I need a background for a…