Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Art Quilt in Progress..border choice

Love those tropical colors.
This is one of my new art quilts in progress. I'm going to add one more border, interviewing colors now. What do you think?
I am liking the lime a lot.
This is a fun technique; make strip fabric by sewing together varying widths of scraps or yardage. Cut into blocks, square or rectangle, add sashing if you want and various borders. The best results come with lots of contrast in color and print. Layer top with batting and backing and machine quilt it to death. Embellish with hand embroidery.
There are some Kaffe Facet fabrics in this.

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Fun with Spring Reflections....

I took this on Friday, the spring weather was delightful.

I had to catch the mirror effect.

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

CQ style embellished sewing clutch progress

I have sewn on binding and ties so far..

       Felted wool needle keeps are sewn in and the pocket is finished. Now the fun part, adding more embellishment.

Thursday, March 27, 2014

New Bling Sewing Clutch, my latest,

Pocket holds sewing tools, etc.

Metallic gold embroidery thread, feather stitch,
vintage jewelry piece, tulle, trims, crushed velvet ties...Made with blue linen, felted wool pin keeps
and vintage mother of pearl buttons..
back of sewing clutch with velvet ties

Monday, March 24, 2014

Inspiration board and work space in my world...

This is my inspiration board...
Love my work horse, Elizabeth Baby Lock, the best,

work in progress, my favorite Italian embroidery scissors,

Corner of my workspace, I work best with a little clutter,

tools and snippets of this and that...

my storage..

my wall space, David Austin rose calendar, love roses...

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Embellished Sewing Clutch

Pink linen sewing clutch I made in 2013, one of my favorite

 opened out; needle keep made of felted wool, ribbons to hold scissors, threads

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Crazy quilt "Prairie" progress...

I cut three pieces from my "prairie" crazy quilt, I'm making them into sewing kits.

the pieces are layered with batting and backing and basted. some embellishment has already been added

Embellishments and trims I am considering adding, I will also add hand embroidery. I started the original piece in 2013 when I was taking Karen Ruane's Alchemy class 2013 .