How many of you document your quilts…? What do I mean by ‘Document’? I created a journal of the making of the 1776 Heartache, Heritage and Happiness quilt. It was my journal that eventually ended up being the base for my book. I received this email today…. "I especially liked the journaling you did.  How…

My favorite sox. !!!!They go with the red shoes.

"Everybody you meet is sent to you as a teacher."

This Guy has been visiting with us for the past 4 weeks.He hangs around in one of 5 gum trees in the back yard.

I usually audition the applique for the border of my quilts… The appliqué needs to be detailed to look like a wipil – other wise it will look like another piece of appliqué…. After preparing the appliqué I lay an appliqué (teflon) mat over the pattern. These are post positioned on my ironing board. You…

The wipil illustration is quite busy…..however, I don’t want to simplify it because the wipils are really quite detailed… However, i have a few tricks to make them easier to prepare. sketch No 1.   Sketch No 2. Color illustration .

The portrait part of the quilt is completed….. (well of course it still needs to be appliquéd and quilted, but that is a little way down the track) Now where do I go from here? I began on the journey of making the quilt 10 months ago…. and a chance visit to an art gallery…

  Well the last part of the puzzle is the necklace… then the entire portrait can be assembled. I decided to illustrate the necklace rather than use small pieces of fabric. First, I traced the image onto my cartoon (original pattern) Fusible web on the back to give stability and in preparation for adhering to…

In the previous post I mentioned I was unhappy with her arms… So…… I whipped them off and refined them a little, re-drawing the image and then trimming the arms to make them a little slimmer.I realized that I had included the shadow on the under arm as actual arm….. so a degree of trimming…….