I thought you might enjoy a few in progress photos and instructions on how I do a ballerina with a dimension tutu. Remove all of the the release paper from ballerina except on the arms and iron the girl to the background. Create a tulle tutu. I hand gather 4 layers for tulle – the […]
Wishes of Happiness
A small ballerina with a tiny tutu… ready to dance and grant wishes She grants wishes of happiness (9†x 13â€)
Creating Frenzy
Shopping is fun, especially with an encouraging husband Art quilt backgrounds stacked up and ready for quilting Appliqué pieces organized by pattern Appliqué girls assembled, they looked like a tiny army waiting to jump onto their quilt backgrounds Quilts bound and ready for new homes – photos of each one are awaiting processing so I […]
Sketching – Home and Feelings
I drew the laundry days girl on laundry here at home. No line drying outside here though. The girl with the shelves and bags on hooks I drew after adding hangers to my living room wall and hanging up my husband’s collection of bags. It gets them off the floor and they kind of look […]
Love Letter Colors
I had jelly rolls of the V and Co Simply Color that sort of fell out of a box as I searching for something. As I was cleaning my sewing room, I was more interested in making something with the fabric instead of putting it away. So I stitched 4 strips together and sub-cut them […]
Scrap Quilt Part 3
I pieced together my top – 36 blocks each 12†randomly arranged. I like the happy chaos of the top. As I mentioned before kept the more muted colors aside and created a little throw with 12 blocks. The girls and words from a fabric panel add interest.
Sketching – Project Runway
I am a fan of Project Runway. I always watch it on Fridays and enjoy sketching as I do. Loving the button tufted couch I drew up there and I’ve been practicing desks/tables with stuff on them.
Small Quilt Binding and Hangers Tutorial
Below is my favorite method for adding quilt hangers as I bind a quilt. Step 1: Gather materials. – Quilt trimmed to size – Single fold bias tape 1/2†– Ribbon, 4 pieces about 1.5†– 2†– 2 spiral paperclips (round or square) – Lighter or lit candle or fray stop liquid – Sewing […]
Bloom Love Live Happy
My paint chip colors inspired another projects using canvas, sheet musics, fabric, wire, wool and thread. I created canvas quilt backgrounds bound pillowcase style. Then stitched slightly ruffled strips of sheet music to the background. For love, I tore strips of purple fabric and ruffled them as I stitched them to the background with orange […]
Spooky House
For a quilt guild challenge, we were to create a small quilt based on paint chips with color names starting the with same letters as our initials. My colors where Charcoal sketch (Black), Autumn sunset (orange) and Plum (purple). A few years ago, I found drawing of a haunted house that’s been in my inspiration file. […]