This year I want to explore the use of different fabrics…. How does ink react on silk and linen? This project is linen top and cotton back with 100% cotton batting. The fabrics came from Ikea. You can see the cotton seeds in the batting through the linen, I quite like it. Somehow it has…
Category: Capture & Create
There’s something in the air….
I went to put the Christmas tree away today… I can't get into the store room…. So in my jamas, I began to filter through the old school uniforms, school books, discarded cases… and part of our children's youthful experiences, like skateboards, tents, backpacks, boxes of CD's and videos and motor magazines (I'll just store…
The beginning of a New Year.
No snowflakes, Just sun. No scarves, just shorts. No drinks and food by the fire. Instead our State was on shut down due to what we call a "Catastrophic Fire Day" Catastrophic fire warning in southern statesFriday December 31, 2010 – 07:30 EDT The bureau says a cool change will reach Adelaide tomorrow after the…
Finished the illustrations.
Done….. I've finished the illustrations for this quilt, now I can post it off…. whoopee. I'll explain again these are illustrations I found in my Mothers sketch book… she did them in 1994. I think she might have copied some of them…. (from photos or other illustrations…) but no doubt she added her own shading…
Illustrating fabric and an absolute bargain…
I have 6 more buildings to finish and the job is done… Someone asked me how I was going to quilt this quilt… well, I'm not…. this is for someone else's quilt. BUT the way I would quilt is with smoke mono filament on the top and grey Superior Masterpiece thread in the bobbin. Of…
Fabric Illustration.
I've had to put the Aggy aside while I work on four important programs that need to be out in a week…. This is a small part of one of them…. I'm illustrating on fabric…. It's an Australian theme and this is one of my Mums illustrations from her sketchbook… I've decided to add them…
Designing, eating and having a wonderful time.
I started the day by doing this drawing. I would like to complete a watercolor for each project I do this year. (2011) I think it helps me with the harmony and creation of the piece. The placement of this piece is similar to the quilt… it's dimensional by standing in front of the very…
I had help today.
I sewed a little today…. early morning quilting and then I had to make tablecloths and napkins later in the day. I had help… a little bundle slept next to the sewing machine fast asleep on a vintage quilt. As I write another baby is being born into the family…. this one is two weeks…