Last Thursday I attended a CBQ (Citrus Belt Quilters) workshop: Christine’s Collage Vest with Christine Barnes. I’d never had the nerve to tackle collage before. I’d done collage-like quilt techniques before, for example my threads quilt below, except those were always pictorial, whether from an actual photograph or from my head, never abstract. There was just some sort of mental block there, which as you can see is now gone! It was a fun play day and it will be interesting to see everyone’s finished vests.
It took one day to lay out, pin, and start to stitch down the vest back. Now I have another mammoth of a UFO to complete, but I also have one more UFO completed: I found out that I didn’t need to make sleeves for the CBQ mini quilt show quilts after all, so I took the time set aside to make sleeves for the other two miniatures for the show (it’s not easy being green and mimsical) to “bind” my penny for a spool of thread wallhanging. Actually I glued yarn around the edges and called it a day. (Usually I do a blanket stitch or something around the yarn, but this time I couldn’t find a thread color that worked with both the black border on the front and the white border on the back.)
Friday Christine Barnes presented a wonderful lecture on color and a great trunk show (enjoy a virtual trunk show here). As you have probably noticed, I am a fan of bright colors. After pondering the color wheel, I went grocery shopping and came home with a color wheel of produce! I should have set up and taken a photo, but now the blueberries are already gone and that was my only blue. Hopefully the rest won’t turn into a rotting UFO! Those bright fruits and veggies are so much more appealing than all that processed corruption passing for food these days. The only trouble is that natural is a lot more work than processed, so I’ll have to make it a point to cook every day, or at least prepare a few really grand salads since it’s getting so hot.
I’ve been doing more thinking about the manuscript than actual writing this week, but I did sketch out a design for one of the quilts for the book that had previously been only a vague notion.
happy quilting!
On the right is a UFO, a jacket actually from some years ago, which was originally a “muslin” to test out a pattern before I cut into my silk tweed. Well, I didn’t quite have enough fabric, so the sleeves became 3/4 (which was actually allright with me), halfway through I stopped looking at the directions and started doing my own thing so by the time I got down to the end I didn’t know how to finish it. Then I decided I didn’t like the pattern, or at least it wasn’t quite what I wanted for the silk. Wanting something to wear I recently decided on how to finish it off. I folded up the serged edges and wrapped them with novelty yarn. I’m nearly done and should have a new jacket by the time it gets really hot here.
