Well, I guess it's sort of finished. It's rather boring looking really. BUT. I am happy with the way the pencil worked on the fabric. It's waxy and resists the water when you spray it to get rid of the blue liner pen. I did re-apply a light coating of the pencil on part of…
Category: Quilting
Almost finished.
I've almost finished the little AgaPamthus No1. I'll show you the finished article tomorrow.. Did you wonder if I was able to completely get the blue pen out? Well, I'll share more tomorrow. I have been photographing all day and just arrived home… and it's almost bed time, so tomorrow will have to do. But…
Quilting pattern
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…
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…
Podcast No 3 Just a chat with friends.
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new Ideas.
I woke with a start this morning, looked at the clock and it was 4.30. I knew the day was going to be busy with the more mundane so I made a strong coffee and went out to the shed. I have a certain amount I need to get done each day and I really…
Texture quilt – almost finished…
Another warm day today… I just LOVE this weather. It was so hot today we had a power outage… I was sitting in the TV room and I could hear this terrible noise… it was my electric toothbrush taking off on it's own because the power had gone off… It took me ages to get…
inspiration, inspiration, inspiration.
Image by Martin Beek via Flickr I get emails from people all over the world and I love looking into the way they work, their galleries and their blogs. Now this man, David Hockney is an artist… but I thought you might like to see the way he goes about his projects… I love the…
Podcast No 1. Lets talk about the Bayeux and other projects.
Download Podcast 1. I've been asked by a few people to do a podcast every now and then. So I figured I would do one each Sunday evening while I'm home. If you have some ideas on specific subjects just email me and I will try to accomodate your request.