Trapunto revival!
Last week I wrote about how my friend and dyer Linda Waddle kindly offered to over-dye my languishing whole cloth trapunto quilt. The silk had faded from a delightful icy blue to a putrid yellow/blue/gray mix. Linda and I rolled on thickened dye as a Hail Mary move – what did I have to lose? […]
Two finishes!
Well, kinda two finishes, more like wrapping up what was about 90% done previously. But hey, I’ll take it as a finish! I did ultimately decide to go with the “back” of the organza sheer SAQA Auction Donation quilt: If its purchaser prefers it the other way it will be easy to move the tiny […]
Finished – Much in Common!
I finished, just in the nick of time! I submitted yesterday afternoon, with a wee bit of trauma, but it. is. done! I named her “Much in Common”: “The linen tablecloth and I are about the same age. We both have some worn parts and stains, and not everything is symmetrical. It was a pleasure […]
Quarantine Quilting – Week 8: Details!
I hold the notion that most times it’s the final 10% of your quilting decisions that make or break your quilt. I think I have way more that 10% of work left, but only a few decision areas left. All of those revolve around the border. I have gridded the border, no small task […]
Quarantine Quilting Week 7: Stippling, Knots and Hikes
This week I concluded, there is hope that I can finish this quilt in time to be able to submit to the Houston show. Hope, not a slam dunk, hope. I micro-stippled for days-on-end this week. And buried another 1.5 million knots. And just to switch tedious tasks, I finished embellishing 20 feet of rick-rack: […]
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