This is the preparation for the quilting. I folded a piece of paper in half and lightly sketched the existing image on the paper… I'll finish it… then draw it in pen and trace the image onto my quilt with a wash out pen. It looks busy, but it will be the same color as…
Author: Pam Holland
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Fanciful Aggy No 2.
The picture is complete… now I'm going to prepare it for quilting. The background quilting will be a totally different pattern. These are the pencils used… prisma. The design is my own and I know the leaves are not the right shape for an aggy, but… I like them.
Fanciful Aggy No1.
I've traced the image onto the fabric in pencil. You can rub out the lines you don't need, just as if you are working on paper. At this stage I've just started coloring with pencil. I'll added a little definition with a black pigma pen. Unlike an illustration, this is going to be quilted…
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I woke with a start this morning, looked at the clock and it was 4.30. I knew the day was going to be busy with the more mundane so I made a strong coffee and went out to the shed. I have a certain amount I need to get done each day and I really…
Texture quilt – almost finished…
Another warm day today… I just LOVE this weather. It was so hot today we had a power outage… I was sitting in the TV room and I could hear this terrible noise… it was my electric toothbrush taking off on it's own because the power had gone off… It took me ages to get…
A Summers evening.
Don't you love the smell of summer, specially the evenings. The birds are singing their final song of the day. Rosella parrots, green parrots, kookaburras and galahs and I have no idea the name of the bird with the beautiful song at nightfall, all I know is that it's lovely. Nightfall releases the smell of…
Quilting on the Internet.
It's been a lovely day today. The weather is just super and I've been able to get a lot of work done. I marvel at what is available to us now, - media wise that is. Today a attended a "webinar" a seminar on the web. It was an intellectual quilting subject and shared the…
BIG patterns.
The next lot of drawings. (patterns) for the Bayeux are finished…. I laid them out on the back block to check them… As you can imagine, I don't have a design wall this big… Then Ralfy ran across them and put a hole in one….!!!