Category: Lesson
Challenge Block No 4. in the making.
Thoughts and process:- This weeks challenge will cover two genre's the Aggy project and the weekly challenge. I'm beginning with a photo that was taken a coupe of weeks ago. I have a 50 meter roll of very thick vellum, it's actually the paper draftsmen use for their drawings. It's easy to see through and…
Challenge Block No 3.
Thoughts and process. Finished the quilt top…. now to quilt it. ! The blue fabric and the purple fabric have only been used because I didn't have anything else that color in the stash. It's a coarse fabric and has a white back…. I normally steer away from that sort of fabric if I can….
Challenge Block No 3.
Thoughts and process. I've constructed the block by the foundation method.
Challenge Block No 3.
Thoughts and process. Looking at the background of the pattern behind the 'Mexican Man', I decided to piece the block. Easy Peasy in this case… So I created the block in EQ6. and if you like you could even have a quilt !!!! and then again…. here are a few others I designed while I…
Block No 3.
This is a photo I took in Mexico last year…. it will be a portrait block for next weeks challenge. I think I'll do a large quilt at the same time of the same subject. If you enlarge the photo, you can see that I've already changed the photo to a watercolor to assist with…
Challenge Block No 2.
Thoughts and process. I've shown you the process of making my own fabric for part of this block…. in post No 4. A piece of fusible web (steam a seam lite) was fused to the back of the image. I drew the bird onto white dyers muslin with a mechanical pencil and I began to…
Block No 1. Quilted.
Block No 1. Quilting:- I quilted the small quilt with smoke Monofilament on the top…..( I prefer YLI monofilament.) I used Masterpiece 50 weight cotton on the back, warm and natural cotton batting and a 60/8 sharp needle. To begin with a forgot to change needles and I had a microtex needle in the machine……
Block No 2.
Thought Process:- I have an idea….. Do you remember I mentioned that I want to do some blocks with maps….? This block will be of something that I treasure each day. So I decided to get a map of our suburb off the web, print it and then scan it so I could subdue the…
AgaPamthus No 2.
The temperature has dropped a little and I'm just about to illustrate the AaPAMthus. We're in our first official heatwave for November I decided to use different fabric for the background. I used a moda print on print fabric and over dyed it. Now I've just competed drawing the buds on the fabric. But I'm…