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…
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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…
Talking Threads
I just had an email from Lizzie with notification of this fabulous production…. It begins tomorrow, Wednesday. Guys this is the way quilting is being shared now…. Not over the table, but over the internet… we're so lucky. AND before you say, "Oh, but we are missing out on the face to face side of…
The next video
It's been a hectic couple of days, but as promised… here's the quilting video.
How to shade video is now online.
The how to shade video, is online now
Video.
I've been sorting through the important stuff… Video This is the video of the next part of the illustration process. You may have to wait about 3 minutes for it to buffer. Just go and make a cuppa…
Stained glass window…
This quilt was made after a visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. I took a photo of a 13th century stained glass window… it was small, about 15" square and I wondered if I could re-create it as a quilt. I enlarged my photo… Made a drawing of the original by putting…
Drawing No 1.
This is an experiment…. I sort of know how it's going to turn out, but then again !!! it could be a flop. I enlarged my pencil drawing to fit on an A3 size sheet. It's 11" square. I have a piece of high thread count cream moda fabric that hasn't been washed and I…
Page on Ideas
When I give a presentation I talk about threads and things, but it's hard for the participants to remember everything in that short time… so I've added a PDF page on the right hand side of the blog.