Stuff

I’ve worked some on my Jelly Roll baby quilt and completed all of the blocks.  It turns out there are enough blocks to make two baby quilts.  I sort of thought that would happen.  I spent some time laying them out in what I hope will be a good arrangement, and got one set all [...]

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JellyRoll Quilt Start

I’ve finally made a start on my JellyRoll quilt.  I’m using a Moda JellyRoll and a pattern from Jelly roll Quilts by Pam and Nicky Lintott called “Pandora’s Box.” 

The plan was to make it as a baby quilt for a charity project my quilt guild is doing.  But I’m going to have to wait and [...]

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Chemo Turbans

The quilt guild I belong to keeps the local hospital supplied with turbans for women going through chemotherapy and the supply was getting low, so we’ve been making up a bunch over the past couple of weeks.  I stitched up these four today:

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Gouache Mandala 1 — The Finishing Touch

The final step on the mandala was to go back in over the drawn lines with black ink to give more depth and dimension.

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Gouache Mandala 1 — Adding the “Risky” Color

I fought the urge to do something safe and comfortable with the final spaces on the mandala and went with my gut instinct which was to add the “risky” color:  red.

And I was right.  It has added the complexity and zing that I wanted.  
When viewed from far away it appears as almost dark blue, [...]

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New Header

I’ve been wanting to change my header for some time now and finally figured out how to do it this morning.  The new header is a portion of a table runner I designed and made while in New Mexico in 2008.  It is made of fabric I hand-dyed specifically for this project and is completely [...]

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Gouache Mandala 1 – Almost Finished

Yesterday I added a green-blue to the mandala and filled almost all of the rest of the spaces with more yellow, blue, and green-yellow.

 I’m learning how important it is to start with the lightest colors and work towards the darkest, because when a mistake is made with light over dark it really shows up.  Although [...]

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Gouache Mandala 1 – Second Layer

I’ve added the second layer of color to my mandala.  Actually, I guess it’s the second and third layers, since I’ve added yellow and yellow green.  Yellow was mixed with the tiniest bit of blue to get the yellow green:

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Gouache Mandala 1 – First Color

One of my D.Min. colleagues did a project with a mandala he designed and then painted with gouache paint.  It’s really nice, and it inspired me to sit down and do some playing around with mandalas myself.  I’ve always used them for quilt designs before.  Here’s one I made up several years ago.  It’s somewhere [...]

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Lots of Traffic

I haven’t had a chance to blog much lately, but when I looked at my stats page this morning I found that I’ve been getting lots of traffic on my site, anyway.  It seems someone linked my tutorial on the Bow Tucks Tote Bag and I got something like 135 hits in one day on [...]

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