Working on the light box and assembling the images on a Teflon applique mat. Sometimes, it takes awhile for my brain to compute when I’m working on complex images!!!!

I’ve had a break for a few days. That doesn’t mean that I didn’t work on the Bayeux, but it was minimal, not 6 the hours a day I normally do. Somehow I feel a sense of loss if I don’t work the 6 hours, but I did enjoy the break.I needed to attend to…

238 feet of ironed down applique. There are almost 100 individual pieces in each foot, so how stiff is the project? I’m using steam a seam lite by The Warm Company. They have given me 3 rolls and I’m very frugal with it, I save every small piece for tiny appliques. When cutting it off…

I think I’ve discovered a great way to hold my applique down. Of course it has to be ironed…(which I do a lot) When I was doing my weekly ironing on Sunday, I looked across at my iron press…Ah ha….why don’t I try to press the applique down….(not just iron.) So nervously I gave it…

I can’t create every day. The work is rotated.Prepare the applique, Put it on the quilt.The preparation for just one foot X twenty five inches  takes about 4 hours depending on my degree of stick ability. I also spend time researching each day and this is what I’ve learned about the garments I’ve created in…

I created a different costume today.It’s hard to know, but I think it’s a form or armour.In the tapestry there are 8 different designs for the armour. It’s thought that the costume I created today could have been made from pieces of leather.This part of the Tapestry depicts Duke William and his men passing into…

The overall effect of machine embroidering the garment has worked out well.Once constructed each image will be illustrated with pigment ink, however, I won’t do that until it’s appliqued because the thread will be dyed at the same time.I couldn’t resist trying just a little illustration, you can see how it adds depth and interest…

One of the unique things about working on a project such as this is that “it’s been done before” I’ll clarify that by saying that I don’t think anyone has made a Bayeux Quilt in its entirety before… but maybe there is one out there somewhere. I have over 20 books on the Tapestry. I’ve…

Just two months since I began working on my Quilt each day. It was the 26th of December and as I mentioned in the previous post I will link to the blogs from that time. This format means that I can add more detailed information and it will be in the form of a daily…