Exhibition page

Recently I finished the 7922 c&g course with the Kemshalls. Everyone who finishes a course with them gets an exhibition page on their site. Here is the link to mine: http://www.lindakemshall.com/StudentExhibitionWilOpio.htm

crativity test

You Are 89% Creative

You are an incredibly creative person. For you, there are no bounds or limits to your creativity.Your next creation could be something very great... Or at least very cool!

How Creative Are You?

I came across this little test when I was reading Gabrielle's blog. Like most test I doubt how much truth is in it, but this one was fun to do. According to the test my creativity rating is 89%.

Tempting the muse

At the moment I am taking an online class given by Laura Cater-Woods together with a couple of my dyeing friends. It is called 'Tempting the Muse'. For the first assignment we had to use a theme and explore it in 3 different ways. I picked 'decay' as theme. The size of this piece is journalsize and I used watersoluble paper on it. I placed the paper on the sandwich and stitched the main veins with freemotion zigzag. For the smaller veins in between I used straight stitching. When everything was stitched I rinsed it very briefly. This way part of the paper remained on the quiltlet and added even more to the decaying effect I was trying to get.

journal quilt

This journal quilt is a sample piece for a technique I want to use on a big quilt. I used handdyed/handpainted fabric on it and quilted 3 rows of columns on it. I wanted to place emphasis on the columns so I took some Setacolor (black) and Lumiere (copper) paint and with a brush added paint on top of the quilt. I am happy with the result.

The next step was to do this too on my quilt for the Quilten Speciaal course. On this picture you see that I painted 2 columns with the copper paint. The other quilted rows will be done with black.
This quilt was a difficult one to name. It took a lot of thinking - and some input from friends - but finally I found a name for it. The title will be: 'Montezuma's mystery trails'.

Party theme

This picture is a bit of a teaser :-). In March there is a quiltshow in the Netherlands with the theme Party. It was announced months ago, but till a few days ago I had no idea what to do. Than one evening when I could not fall asleep I suddenly got an idea. This time I am not going to show pictures on my blog till the show is there, but this one I wanted to show you. For whatever it is worth, cause you cannot see much on it. Anyway, the background of this quilt will be pieced from white/black fabricblocks. Each block is 10cmx10cm (4"x4").

c&g assessment quilt finished

I finished my final assessment for my 2nd c&g course today. This is a picture of it. For the background I used one of my handdyed fabrics, quilted outlines of hills and clouds on it and added the flying birds with fused applique on it. The birds were than satinstitched. Size of this wholecloth quilt is 106cmx106cm (42"x42"). I call this quilt: 'Want to come along?'

Quilten speciaal quilt

As you know I am making a second quilt as assessment piece for this course. On top of the handdyed/painted fabric I am using black and white lutrador. The picture on the left shows the orignal way of placing these two colors. The black is too subtle to be seen properly.
I had quilted it, but I was not satisfied with it so this morning I removed part of the quilting and used the two colors of lutrador the other way round. This way it looks better. The quilting has been redone. Next step on this quilt is to add black paint to part of the quilting design and maybe some red as well. Before I try the red I will make a sample - journal size - so that I know a bit how it will look.