Sunday, June 28, 2009

Shoes

I have not been very active the last couple of days. Partly because of -again- computer issues. But I can show you this. Originally they were boring white shoes. I applied different green/blue Lumiere textile paint on it and they look much better now. Normally you heatset Lumiere by ironing the fabric. Well as ironing shoes is not possible I have no idea how long the colors will last. I just will make certain that I don't wear them when it is raining :-). Is it art: NO, is it fun to do: YES!
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Alphabet

Today another picture of the alphabet. This M is made from metal. I have no clue what kind of metal it is. When I bought the book 'This lustr'ed cloth' written by Alysn Midgelow-Marsden I bought a sample set of metal at the same time. The metal is a bit thinner than a soda can. Out of the metal I cut the shape of the M. Added some Adirondack Alcohol Inks on it in different colors and let them blend. Sorry, I did not write down the names of the inks. When it was dry I stitched the M to the black background fabric.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Can you see me is finished!

And as I told you yesterday here are the pictures of the finished 'Can you see me?' quilt. Total size of the quilt is 31"x31". In some places there are up to 6 layers of fabric on top of the batting and all the fabric which I used are commercial batiks. As I mentioned earlier, I made this quilt for the Adaptation challenge which is run on Fiberartsconnsocal
And here are some detail pictures. As always the quilt has a label on the back, but I also signed this at the front. If you look closely you can see that I wrote my signature plus the year on one of the leaves. This was an easy spot as the 2 layers of fabric have a fusible interfacing in between which makes it easy to write on.
Some of the leaves go across the binding. This 'freedom' is one of the reasons that I put on the bindings before I start adding additional fabric to a quilt.
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Saturday, June 20, 2009

Can you see me?

Is almost done! I only have to attach the label to it and than this quilt is finished. In a way I wished I kept track of the hours I spent working on it. I know it is one of the most time consuming quilts I ever made. Picture of the finished quilt and some details I will post tomorrow.

Monday, June 15, 2009

Can you see me?

Progress on the chameleon quilt is slow, but steady. On these pictures you can see that I have added some branches and the first leaves. Many more are still to come. Size of the quilt is 31"x31", so you can guess that it takes a lot of time before this one is finished.

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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Alphabet

No progress to show on my chameleon quilt today. Adding the binding does not show much difference to the previous pictures :-). So today another one of alphabet pieces. The L stands for lutrador. In this case a thin white one which I zapped before I cut out the shape and stitched it to the background fabric. I love the lacey effect you get with using a heatgun on this material.l
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Sunday, June 07, 2009

Can you see me?

I continued working on my chameleon quilt today. Parts of the toplayer(s) have been removed. Luckily I had no accidents with the seam ripper or with my scissors :-). Normally the idea for an applique is that it stands out of the background. However not with this quilt. That is no error but I am doing this on purpose. The show for which I am creating this quilt is called Adaptations. These can be found everywhere but I decided to settle on nature and specifically on how well the chameleon blends in with its surrounding.
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Saturday, June 06, 2009

Can you see me?

I continued working on my green project. What I did this week was rather time consuming. I placed 5 pieces of different green batiks on top of each other and pinned this to the quilted background. My twin needle refused to stitch properly through this thick layer so I had to use a single needle and stitch two rows close to each other. You can imagine how many loose thread ends I ended up with. After they were neatly tacked away the quilt looks like this:
And this is a detail picture:
The next step is evenly time consuming and risky at the same time. I will remove the toplayer or toplayers of the fabrics. Hopefully I don't cut too many of the layers and end up with the background. More pictures will follow later this week
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Monday, June 01, 2009

journal quilt

For CQGB I make a journal quilt (6"x12") every month. The idea I had was to make something with tulips the whole year through, but actually I got fed up with them. So this month I made something more suitable to the month of the year: dandelion seeds blowing in the wind. At the same time this journal quilt doubles for a challenge we have on my new group which was about spring and something new. Dandelion seeds are the beginning of new plants - most often in places where you don't want them - and they are a sign of spring. Here is the picture: