The long arm is set up and I'm after myself to quilt a top that has been sitting for about five years. I deserve to see it completed. Shooting for the end of the month with binding complete along with tagging. I plan on carrying it in the amount of varied stock I'll display this fall. Although the quilt will be available on Etsy after photographing.
For the top I'm shooting for a blend between custom quilting and an overall pattern. Feathers and McTavishing as it were, the blend I saw in a friends work was striking to the eye and fun to follow. I hope to render the same sense of light heartedness.
Meanwhile the house templates are coming all very comfortably. I have four left and after the next two I may go straight into production. I bought fine detailed Sharpe pens to make rendering detail fun and loose. I like where I'm headed even as far as switching to muslin in the long run. I love the paper backed fabric so much that I had a memory. It was of a paper store in Dallas. The place is huge. I learned about it from Sharon Grant in book making class for graduate school. Tons of papers from around the world. I remembered that they have a selection of fine Japanese fabrics backed on to paper as well. Yes, a bit out of my price range right now for a sheet smaller than the 60" wide, $1 a yard I proffered at C&C fabric in the Harry Hines District. I'm up for a field trip eventually, but I should have my measurements down cold for the house I want to make. I'd hate to buy to little and be stuck to glue and paper to finish out neatly.
Still excited at the smaller projects. Fascination machines and time to breathe. I seem to be keeping a steady pace. I'm wondering about taking time off. Maybe of one venue/style to another form of working. Just for the sake of not getting rusty. A friend to time off of art for a year he told me. That was before he looked for a job in the field. I also took a break, more of chance and circumstance, but right now I'm fearing burning out. Maybe I'm just tired and need sleep. I am looking into the wide mouth of Christmas and hoping not to get swallowed in the craft pace to meet the season game face on. I have my obligation and revamping the shop thorough broadening my perspective is one. Careful selections of task for one and keeping it all simple.
For the top I'm shooting for a blend between custom quilting and an overall pattern. Feathers and McTavishing as it were, the blend I saw in a friends work was striking to the eye and fun to follow. I hope to render the same sense of light heartedness.
Meanwhile the house templates are coming all very comfortably. I have four left and after the next two I may go straight into production. I bought fine detailed Sharpe pens to make rendering detail fun and loose. I like where I'm headed even as far as switching to muslin in the long run. I love the paper backed fabric so much that I had a memory. It was of a paper store in Dallas. The place is huge. I learned about it from Sharon Grant in book making class for graduate school. Tons of papers from around the world. I remembered that they have a selection of fine Japanese fabrics backed on to paper as well. Yes, a bit out of my price range right now for a sheet smaller than the 60" wide, $1 a yard I proffered at C&C fabric in the Harry Hines District. I'm up for a field trip eventually, but I should have my measurements down cold for the house I want to make. I'd hate to buy to little and be stuck to glue and paper to finish out neatly.
Still excited at the smaller projects. Fascination machines and time to breathe. I seem to be keeping a steady pace. I'm wondering about taking time off. Maybe of one venue/style to another form of working. Just for the sake of not getting rusty. A friend to time off of art for a year he told me. That was before he looked for a job in the field. I also took a break, more of chance and circumstance, but right now I'm fearing burning out. Maybe I'm just tired and need sleep. I am looking into the wide mouth of Christmas and hoping not to get swallowed in the craft pace to meet the season game face on. I have my obligation and revamping the shop thorough broadening my perspective is one. Careful selections of task for one and keeping it all simple.