Showing posts with label etthnoquilt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label etthnoquilt. Show all posts

Monday, April 11, 2011

Emergency sewing


 Joining the strips is a game of luck. I can imagine more precise work. Quilters with systematic methods would throw up their hands in horror, I guess. Well, if a strip happens to be longer than planned -- as the one left  vertical --, I just don't have the heart to cut the excess, but rather try to add an adequate piece.
 Jude inspired me with tiny windows of fabric in this posting. They look so neat and tidy! Maybe I'll try to apply this method.
It is a challenge to do something you haven't mastered yet. I can do easier things, but I so love to "paint" with fabrics. I just read a word on planning: "Making plans replaces coincidence with error."
 Another little mosaic of scraps.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Art indoors and outdoors

Children's drawings, chalk,
on the garage drive.
We live in a block of 4-floor apartement houses. A large number of kids live here, and doesn't feng shui say that it is good to be where the children play? Spring is on its way very slowly, at night the temps are a few degrees below freezing point, at day not much higher. --
A true korak, as I said, will not be quilted. But I do. Larger patches need the support of added threads. So I expand quilting on the whole surface, to be consequent.
The playground of critters