Showing posts with label machine quilting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label machine quilting. Show all posts

Sunday, February 27, 2022

Week 11 - in the Studio

 More steps forward and a couple of surprises! I had a bit of a "little plan making" as one of the challenges is having too many projects on the go at any time and going down some rabbit holes any time they appear!

So I've made a list of "Focus on Four"....I am limiting myself to a total of four projects at any one time. Once I finish one, I can move onto another - but no more than four....let's see how it goes!

Project One Update:


I am quilting the most recent Industrial Shoreline piece, it's not my favourite part of the process, so taking it in small chunks...but I had a little mishap along the way - did you ever see a needle bend this this? No injuries were inflicted...

Project Two:

I'm continuing to work carefully and thoughtfully on my vintage paper pieces...in January I bought a Brother Scan n Cut and it stayed in the box until last week. I finally figured out some images I wanted to design and cut - 

Do I have enough? I had one particular design that I felt worked well on the paper pieces, nothing is glued down yet as I audition placement and repetition.




This will continue to evolve as I work on placement, additions and subtractions....and then learning how best to frame and display.

Project Three:

I admit to a bit of a sideways movement in my focus (but it counts as 1/4)  I pulled out some black paper and interference paints - making some marks and then monoprinting with the papers... loved the sheen of the colours and after taking pictures I set them up in an app. It was a fun distraction....






Isn't this cool?


These are the paints I used.

Project Four:

Not so much a project as a way to develop/discover/create an image to use in my vintage paper series...its about hand and brain connection and practising a movement to use. A simple "swoop" doesn't just happen - so heres a video showing the marks I made in the sketchbook to get to that point. Just click on the link below....


Not a Project - just a cool photo of a rock formation:


So that was my week - how about yours?

Friday, June 21, 2013

New Work

Last night I finished a piece that I had blogged about a few days ago. I've very happy about it as it is a trial piece for a much larger one that I plan to start painting and waxing the fabric for shortly.
I've finally titled it "To the Roof" as in the song "......up the ladder, to the roof" from the Supremes. You can check out the full lyrics here: http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/the_supremes/up_the_ladder_to_the_roof.html
The pieces suggested "Snakes and Ladders" to me, but I thought that was a little predictable! And I decided against "Burning in the Night"...........
I had made the fabric with soy wax resists, thickened dye and then a layer of dilute dye for the background soft greys. The pieced segments are very relaxed, very narrow sashing strips and I played around with a straight line machine quilting design using variegated black and white threads and a bright red 12 weight rayon.
Here it is as an unfinished piece:
And this is it, all quilted:

 And here is a detail shot of the piecing and quilting: