Tag: photo quilts

  • Getting Closer

    Getting Closer

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    Allison Rainville

    The College Fjord quilt top is finished! Well, the quilt-as-you-go portion is done, and it mostly came out well. It’s only slightly wonky, and while there are some things that are clearly not “right,” the overall effect is exactly what I was going for. I will save the final reveal…

  • So, What’s Next?

    So, What’s Next?

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    Allison Rainville

    A key component of being motivated to finish things, for me, is being able to look forward to the next project. I have to finish things before I can move on, of course, but the planning for the next idea can take place while the actual construction is taking place…

  • January is 4529 Days Long, Part 2

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    Allison Rainville

    The other two quilts – the College Fjord quilt and the Hus Ved Havet quilt – are both coming along nicely, but I am getting to the end of my tolerance of the fiddliness of the bargello, so I am glad that I limited myself to these two in that…

  • January is 4529 Days Long, Part 1

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    Allison Rainville

    It’s the end of January, and I don’t know about you, but this January in particular has felt interminable. Neverending. What do you mean there’s still a week left?! Wasn’t Christmas three months ago? At the same time, it feels like it has not been all that long since I…

  • A Different Kind of Bargello

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    Allison Rainville

    You’d think that sewing straight lines would be easy. You’d be wrong. I started working on the College Fjord quilt today, sewing more vertical strips onto the batting and backing. I realized after I’d worked for a while that somehow, I’d gone wonky. The top of what I’ve sewn together…

  • Now that the Holidays Are Over

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    Allison Rainville

    I took the week of Christmas off, and in between wrapping gifts, celebrating with my family, and reorganizing my sewing room, I was able to get a little more of both the College Fjord and Hus Ved Havet quilts done. I decided once and for all that I wasn’t going…

  • And the Quilting Begins

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    Allison Rainville

    I finished up the vertical strips yesterday and started the quilt-as-you-go method of sewing them together today. It’s slow going. As I’ve always said, my ability to match seams in bargello quilts is quite frankly abysmal, so nothing lines up properly. You’d think that because I strip-pieced the sky, all…

  • Making Progress All Around

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    Allison Rainville

    It’s been a couple of weeks, and I’ve slowly been working on these three different quilts. The Oregon waterfall quilt has been glued in place and the edges have been sewn over. I used several different stitches to sew the edges, and I’m very happy with the results. I’ve put…

  • Now That Proof of Concept Exists, Part 2

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    Allison Rainville

    The Hus Ved Havet image (see previous post) will be divided into five sections, each with its own coloring and bargello method: the land in the foreground (greens/yellow-greens), the water (gray-blues), the mountain (grays), the sky (a blue-to-yellow ombre I originally bought for the College Fjord quilt but that didn’t…

  • Now That Proof of Concept Exists, Part 1

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    Allison Rainville

    When I originally decided to attempt an image using a bargello concept, I had two images in mind that I wanted this to work with. One was obviously the College Fjord quilt, which is on pause briefly until I have the right color again but is clearly going to be…