Monday 13 June 2011

Ah, sewing...!

Regular readers may have been wondering what happened to the sewing part of the "Sew Much Progress"...but I have been sewing, I promise! It's just that it's mainly been hand quilting and that makes for sloooooow progress. But I made it!!! I finished quilting Gman's red and black quilt. I am waiting for a sunny day and a willing and able volunteer to hold it up in order to get a photograph of the whole thing but here's a little taster:

quilted

I went for fairly simple, unmarked quilting using pearl cottons and a big needle. I can't imagine going back to tiny between needles and regular hand quilting thread now!

I have also been dabbling in a bit of arty stuff. I painted another spread in my old Eagle annual:

cityscape

This is made of layers of gesso and watercolour paints. The buildings were constructed by scraping acrylic paint using an old credit card, then details added with a variety of markers. Something was missing so I highlighted a selection of random words from the story underneath and quite like the effect:

cityscape close up

I completed the next week's spread in my Good Things Moleskine:

good things wc 6 june 2011

And, of course, there's been more index cards for Daisy Yellow's Index-Card-a-Day challenge. Here's today's:

icad 13 june

6 comments:

  1. That quilt is STUNNING!! I've not tried big quilting yet, it's on my list of things I want to try. Was it hard pulling the pearle cotton through?

    I love your buildings, putting the words in there was a brilliant touch. Your drawings are wonderful, Viv!

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  2. Big needles and pearl cotton!
    Go girl!

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  3. The quilt looks fantastic! The red and black is so stunning and I like the pattern/design.

    Your journal spreads look great, too. The buildings done with the credit card are my favs. And using the random words adds the perfect touch.

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  4. Wow, wow, wow! That quilt is quite a project! Love you skyline journal spread.

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  5. The buildings are so cool. Love the style.

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  6. Your art journaling and quilt are both fantastic! Love the idea of Good things moleskins (have 3 untouched as I am saving them for something special :))!!
    And the index card a day is wonderful too!!! I signed up!! Thanks for all the lovely ideas!!!

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