tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76196244967797416902024-03-17T20:02:51.293-07:00Paul's Block PartyI have a stack of quilt tops that I've pieced over the years, but never got around to quilting. My challenge is to get one quilt finished every month.Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-40377927923444994782016-02-15T17:33:00.000-08:002016-02-15T17:33:05.409-08:00Fancy Star Block Tutorial<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For the VMQG March block challenge we're going to make these blocks with black to grey prints and a bright print for the accent colour. You can use either black or grey for the background and the other for the star points. You'll end up with a 10 inch block.<br />
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It's a traditional block, but modern fabrics give it a new look.<br />
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This is my edit of a fancy star block. I've seen it at a workshop and in a magazine. Here's my easy instructions for a 10 inch block.<br />
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Here's the fabric you'll need:<br />
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The four big squares will get cut into quarters diagonally, they are 5 1/4 inch squares. You need 2 for the points of the stars, one for the centre accents and one background.<br />
The centre snowball is a 4 1/2 inch square and the corners are four 1 1/2 inch accent squares that will become the triangles of the snowball.<br />
The four outside corner squares are 3 1/2 inch squares.<br />
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Here are all the steps in one picture. The orange lines are cut lines.<br />
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One step at a time instructions</h3>
First cut your fabric. I accidentally made the centre block the same colour as the points. OOPS. Make it the same colour as your background for a lighter, airier star.<br />
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Cut the four big squares corner to corner into 4 triangles.<br />
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Sew the triangles into hourglass blocks and snowball the centre square. Trim both blocks to 4 1/2 inches square.<br />
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Cut the bottoms off your hourglass blocks. From the top, measure down 3 1/2 inches and cut off the extra accent colour edge. The hourglass block will now be 3 1/2 by 4 1/2.<br />
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Lay them out and sew them together by rows, then sew the rows together.<br />
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The stars look airier if you use the background fabric for the centre, unlike the example in this tutorial.<br />
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Also note that the accent triangles aren't all the same size. The more I fiddled with them, the less I was able to get them to touch each other at the points. You know, the "galloping horse" rule applies here.<br />
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-39879640197005903192015-10-23T16:30:00.002-07:002015-10-23T16:30:20.417-07:00Low Volume Drunkard's Path Variations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I made a whole mess of 4 1/2 inch blocks and here are the two tops they turned into.<br />
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And this one<br />
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I may try this one in Christmas fabrics as it looks a little like an ornament shape. <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></div>
Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-10350459565874200402015-09-16T15:27:00.001-07:002015-10-23T16:21:03.877-07:00What does the FOX say<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I got one Fancy Fox quilt done and sent off to Vernon BC for a new baby. I think I'm a great uncle. Emphasis on the GREAT!</div>
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-75191644513378990292015-08-30T14:20:00.001-07:002015-08-30T14:20:09.222-07:00Propeller blocks. <p dir="ltr">I won the pattern at our guild meeting a couple months ago and am now working with Japanese fabrics to make these cool propellers. Hmmmm, do I want to make eight more blocks or just leave it this small size?</p>
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I had this idea of making a quilt of liquorice allsorts a few months ago and finally had a reason to do it. The band I'm in is doing a concert this saturday and all the music have food in the titles. We're playing Cherry Red, Green Onions, Raise Your Glass, Bach's Lunch, First Suite for Military Band, The Peanut Vendor, Agua de Beber, Dixieland Jam, and more. I wanted to call the concert "The Hunger Games", but "Smorgasband" is what the rest decided.<br />
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We usually have a silent auction so I thought I'd make the Liquorice Allsorts quilt for this.<br />
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I pieced in the square ones, and appliqued the other three. I did the used dryer sheet trick for turning them inside out and getting the seam allowance tucked in. the fabrics are 30s repros that had the right soft colours and are quite kid-like. <br />
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Here's the front. I auditioned the candies on several colours and felt they really "popped" on this bright yellow-green.<br />
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I got the label on with the band name and the quilt guild name. It finished to 37 x 48 - 3 feet by 4 feet - a great size for a baby quilt.<br />
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The quilting is a bunch of overlapping squares about the size of the allsorts filled with big zig-zags.<br />
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This was a really quick project. I had the top started and pieced mostly on Friday after work. I got the rest of the front and back pieced on Saturday (with a quick run to the LQS - local quilt store for more background) and then just layered it - spray glue 505- and got 1/3 of it quilted by Sunday evening. Since the quilting is the part I like the least, i did little bits and pieces on Mon, Tues, Wed and put the binding on it Wed evening and got it washed.<br />
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Now it's off to the concert on Saturday to raise a bit of money for the band.<br />
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-81974164413339270872014-03-01T22:01:00.001-08:002014-03-01T22:01:35.996-08:00Book Review: Modern One-Block Quilts by Natalia Bonner and Kathleen Whiting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Through the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild and C&T Publishing, I was able to pick a book to review. I chose the "Modern One-Block Quilts" by Natalia Banner and Kathleen Whiting as it sounded like a great book to see what can be done with the traditional idea of repeating the same block to make it modern. This book does that and so much more. It's a great book with amazing quilts that give a Modern spin on repeating the same block.<br />
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This book has 22 quilt projects each made from one repeating block. Some of the blocks are very simple and some are very complex. <br />
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The book starts with a very short “Sewing Basics” section. There are quick how-tos on making snowballs, half square triangles, and flying geese. The “no waste” flying geese instructions are great. I’ve seen them several times, but never know where to find them when I need it.<br />
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Then there’s a short page on “Finishing the Quilt” with a paragraph or two on backing, batting and basting. Binding gets two pages with instructions for making straight and bias binding. A good resource if you need reminding or if you are a new quilter.<br />
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There is really no information on quilting or even suggestions of how to quilt each project. But, in the full page pictures of the quilts you can see enough of the quilting on some of them for ideas on how you can finish your own.<br />
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Each quilt project starts with a full page picture of the quilt in a lovely setting, then ends with a full page picture of the entire quilt flat. <br />
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The instructions include 3 sizes for each quilt and the materials table and cutting table clearly give you requirements for each size. There is also an assembly diagram clearly showing you the layout of the blocks for each size of quilt.<br />
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Most of the quilts in the book are made of solids and none of them have borders. The look is really modern and the colours chosen for the pictured quilts are very hip and current. Many of the quilts have a limited palette of 2 colours on a white or cream background. This may sound boring, but the quilts look really <br />
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I paged through the book to see if there were any quilts that I would actually want to make as that’s my criteria of a good book. There are 8 quilts that I really like in the book and another 3 that have interesting layouts that I’ll probably incorporate into future quilts. So I can say this book is a winner.<br />
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The instructions are clear, well presented. The fabric requirements and cutting directions are laid out in a table, then the sewing instructions are given step by step. I decided to try out the “Squared Scraps” quilt to see what following the instructions are like. The yardage listed is quite generous, so you can make a couple mistakes and still have enough fabric to complete the size of quilt you select. <br />
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One minor complaint, they don’t tell you how many strips to cut for each element. For example, for the Squared Scraps quilt, you need 48 pieces of white that are 3 ½ by 9 ½. I wish they would say, “cut 10 3 ½ in strips, width of fabric, then cut them into 9 ½ in sections, each strip yields 4 segments.” That way you’d know how much to cut at once.<br />
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The sewing instructions are great and they even suggest what you can sew together before cutting if you want to strip piece some of the elements.<br />
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I got the baby size pieced on a Saturday using some hand dyed batics.<br />
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I highly recommend this book. It is great for modern quilters and for traditional quilters who want to try something a little more modern. There are so many great quilts in it that are graphic, bold, modern and beautiful. The pictures are amazing, the instructions are clear for each size, and there are quilts that will appeal to all types of quilters. <br />
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Beginner quilters can find several amazing quilts that will be within their skill level, and experienced quilters can be challenged by some of the quilts. </div>
Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-52624420640756949172014-01-31T21:31:00.000-08:002014-01-31T21:31:37.541-08:00Oranges and Lemons<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm finally using some of the fabric I batiked and dyed!<br />
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I started dying several fabrics in the same colours to create a bunch of fabrics that go together. I just made strips and put them together for this top. I call this one Oranges and Lemons. <br />
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I thought the background might have been a bad choice, so I made the back with white...<br />
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and I added in a steely blue. Each rectangular block is improvised with strips, blocks or boxes. This turned out different from the hard boiled eggs quilt as on that one I used only a fat quarter of the featured print. This one has lots of all the batiks and just a little of the blue and gold. I think this will be a quilt that both sides will be liked.</div>
Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-55612571241891557092013-10-31T08:00:00.000-07:002013-11-03T01:02:50.263-07:00Workshop for the Sunshine Coast Quilter Guild Retreat 2013 - Part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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More quilts from the workshop.<br />
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I love his one. It's the colours and the retro feel to the printed fabrics that she used and all the solids. The squares with the dark grey strips were added later because the quilt was looking very pale.<br />
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There are two more block to get added to the top or bottom to make it a bit longer. By blocks, I mean sets of 4 quarter blocks. There's actually a wide strip of pieced "sashing" that winds through the quilt. Can you find it? She actually got this all sewn together by the end of the workshop.<br />
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Jennifer used a dark grey as her background colour. The blocks were looking a little dark until she added in the orange and yellow. Look at how wonky the angles turned out. She used pointy "squares" to start out the bulls eye and got lots of motion in her blocks. You can see a wide strip of pieced "sashing" going up and down. Jennifer has more on the go to add in and she may make another block or two also. I can't believe I didn't get more pics of this quilt while it was being made.<br />
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I didn't get a shot of this one while it was on the design wall. We didn't have enough room once people got 4 or more bulls eye blocks cut up. This one had a bit of a tailored look and there's thin piping along the seams of some of the blocks. I like how the grey and yellow fabrics go together so well. Great choices! I hope she'll send me a picture of the finished quilt top. I want to know how she'll put it together. Will there be pieced sashing?<br />
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Here's another one without a white background. I love the solid blocks that are scattered through the quilt. They will be a great place to feature some fancy quilting. This quilt got done in half the time as she had to miss the first day of the workshop. <br />
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Notice there's some mini bulls eye blocks as well as the big quarter size blocks. The mini ones have a cool folded centre square that adds a bit of 3D texture to the quilt. I think she's going to make some more blocks to get this up to queen size.I got a quick lesson on how to do the fold to make that on-point square. I just hope I can remember that special move after you do the first two centre folds.<br />
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Dale used a light batik for the background colour and a nice daisy print for the centre of each bulls eye. This one turned out looking very restful and sweet, not the the angular grey and orange one sharing the design wall with her. She added background sashing to two sides of each block then got this up and down layout where the blocks are not all lined up in rows but sort of bounce around the quilt. Most quilts made with this technique end up very angular and angry and a bit jarring, but here's one that looks pretty calm.<br />
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Carol's quilt blocks start out looking really west coast. I love all the black and white prints she used and that red is perfect. This layout isn't what she'll probably end up with. We were just placing blocks and pieced sashing strips anywhere to get an idea of what could work. <br />
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This one is another one with batiks and features a bright centre block<br />
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More blocks are being created to increase the size. Looks like there will be orange centers mixed among the yellow centers. I really like the mix of wide and narrow strips of the colourful batiks. The judicious use of bright red and dark blue scattered around all the similar greens really make this top interesting. Note all the inclusions in the coloured strips and in some of the white background. I think when the orange centered squares get mixed in it will look warmer perhaps.<br />
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This one turned out unexpectedly wonky. The white fabric is a bit stretchy so some of the strips went a little wobbly, giving it a true Gees Bend look. The centers of the bulls eye are a black and white fabric and that inspired adding narrow black and grey sashing between the blocks. Look at all the little bits of colour in some of the black.<br />
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I am so amazed how different each quilt turned out. We all used the save technique, but personalities start showing through the blocks. I wonder as an exercize, what would happen if we all used the same fabric. How different would each person's blocks end up?<br />
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I'm hoping to get pictures from the quilters as they get the top together. I don't even need to see it quilted. I'd love to see the final version of the top. If it gets quilted, that would be a bonus! We really didn't talk much about how to quilt the tops other than me suggesting an all-over boxy stipple would work, or half inch apart 'L' shapes in each block would work too. Maybe something curvy would soften the quilt a bit, or maybe that would just look too out of place.<br />
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I think I talked everyone out of putting a border around their quilt. My thought is a pieced sashing keeps the wonky improv look going. Also no border makes it seem as if this may be a detail of a much larger piece of art. The doesn't end at the edges, but keeps on going on and on. A border would say, "This is it, there isn't any more." The binding is all you need to edge this type of quilt. The purple one on page 1 is probably the one that is closest to having a border, but since the internal sashing is just a wide, it's not really a border at all.<br />
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I came home on Sunday exhausted, but energized! I may even finish of a couple of projects in the next couple weeks!<br />
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Thanks, Sunshine Coast Quilters for a wonderful retreat!</div>
Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-25997794570603988422013-10-28T20:12:00.000-07:002013-10-28T20:12:31.514-07:00Workshop for the Sunshine Coast Quilter Guild Retreat 2013 - Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Last weekend I headed up to Gibsons to give a two day workshop on the Gees Bend style quilt. A year ago I drove up with all my quilts and quilt tops and did a trunk show about my journey from traditional to modern quilting. There was enough interest so I got invited to do a workshop up there for their retreat.<br />
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It was so much fun. I had 13 women in my workshop and below is a photo journal of what we accomplished over the 3 days of the 2 day workshop. I don't know where that 3rd day came from!<br />
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I'm terrible with names, so I'll try to match up the names of the participants with their quilts. Forgive me, ladies, if I get it wrong or if I really should have remembered your name and didn't. <br />
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First, here's me working the room.<br />
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This one was all purple and green batiks to make the blocks.<br />
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And then with some really wide sashing, became a really Gees Bend looking quilt! Those random pieces scattered in the sashing really give this one such a non-traditional look. Sort of like naive outsider art.<br />
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Just one more side to sash and it's done!<br />
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Here's the process that we used with the guild president Jeanette's blocks. Make a square bulls eye. <br />
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Cut it into quarters and mix up the quarter blocks.<br />
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Make more and scatter the quarters around. <br />
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Notice the little "inclusions" in some of the strips. The rule was if you have to sew two strips together to make it long enough, you had to cut in in the centre and add a contrasting fabric in the block, not at the end. Of course, one extra bit is never enough, so you can see some strips have several inclusions. Even some of the white background strips have inclusions.<br />
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Here's Kim's rust and green blocks. She used the left-overs from another quilt that featured the leaf print that's in the centre of the blocks. The little squares are 1/4 inch checkers she had pieced for the other quilt. They made excellent inclusions scattered throughout the quilt. Kim stayed up all night working on this "exploded block" layout. She pretty much used up every scrap of black that she had. She's actually hiding an area of white where there isn't enough black.<br />
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This technique is harder to do with a coloured background for the blocks, but Kim was able to really make her's effective with the colours of the blocks, the black sashing and the layout. I think she's almost exhausted her second wind in this shot.<br />
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Holly's blocks used a variegated green fabric. The light end became the background and the dark end became one of the coloured strips. I loved the coral fabric for the background, but I'm not sure what Holly has decided to use. This is just the blocks laying on the yardage she brought. I think she's making another block or two before she decides.<br />
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Part two coming up next.</div>
Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-79677456217089361402013-10-14T09:00:00.000-07:002013-10-21T22:57:02.440-07:00See Me and My Trunk Show in Person!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild was contacted by TAGOR, Textile Arts Guild of Richmond, to see if anyone could give a talk about this "Modern Quilting" movement that's been going around. I eagerly agreed and here's the updated announcement:<br />
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If anyone is in the lower mainland (for you non-BC residents, that means if you're in the Vancouver area.) feel free to come. Well I guess not free, but do come.<br />
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While, I'm on a tangent, you know how Washington state talks about the Pacific Northwest? Does that make this part of Canada the Pacific Southwest? Does it feel a bit like the US doesn't know anything exists above their border? Any-how, lower mainland is pretty much all the communities along the mouth of the Fraser River up to Abbotsford, I guess. That would be Vancouver, North Van, West Van, Burnaby, Port Moody, Coquitlam, PoCo, New Westminster, Maple Ridge, Mission, Richmond, Delta, Surrey, Langley, Abbotsford and White Rock. When I looked it up, I see Chilliwack isn't included and that's my hometown! and if you go much further, you're beyond Hope. Oops, Google says it includes Chilliwack and Hope too and actually contains 59% of BCs population! You are all welcome to come.<br />
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I've started collecting quilts I made for others back for the talk, and of course will show lots of unfinished quilts, as that's pretty much my thing. You know, make the quilt top, then put it away. I was thinking of trying to get a couple more finished for the show, but, why? I don't want to pressure myself when there's so much else happening and of course so many more quilt tops to start on too!<br />
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Do come as I'll be talking about some of the traits of modern quilts and how they are really variations of what we all do as traditional quilters. If you are a traditional quilter, you may see a quilt of mine that you'd like to try for yourself. The fun of alot of modern quilts is you don't need a pattern. Just sketch out a sort of layout or plan, and then go for it.<br />
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There's going to be a lot of this if I don't get some "holders":<br />
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And there's a great group to help and encourage you - the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild and the Fraser Valley Modern Quilt Guild.</div>
Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com37700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC V6Y 1R8, Canada49.1635567 -123.140460223.6415222 -164.4490542 74.6855912 -81.831866200000007tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-33366966111261363472013-10-12T19:26:00.000-07:002013-10-12T19:33:53.159-07:00Update on Kshreya's Quilt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here's Kshreya on her quilt. What a cutie she is! At this point she has her dad's hair, but hopefully it will grow in.<br />
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quilted it with one off-centred spiral each line about an inch apart. I
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Kamya's quilt:</h3>
Here's
the quilt I made for her sister, Kamya, about 5 years ago when she was this size. It's very
traditional and I used 30s reproduction fabrics and a white-on-white
background. I think what keeps it from being entirely traditional, is
although I used sashing and borders, they are all the same background
colour, which makes the pinwheels float on the quilt rather than being
boxed in.<br />
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And here's the back.<br />
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Don't
tell Kamya, but I was using up fabric that I didn't really like that
much for the back. Now, I probably would have used solids for a punch
of colour. I do like the off-set stripes and that the pin-wheels aren't
in the centre. And I notice they are spinning in the opposite
direction and I got 5 rather than 4 across. I wonder if these were
planned or accidental. The quilt has an all over stipple with curves
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-16999043531209053682013-09-20T09:00:00.000-07:002013-09-20T09:00:06.876-07:00Common Threads Indigo Quilt Project<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Sheila and Elsie from the VMQG invited me to join their church group in creating quilted banners for their church's Parish Hall. More about the project here: <a href="http://common-threads-125.tumblr.com/about/" target="_blank">http://common-threads-125.tumblr.com/about/</a><br />
A couple months ago I got in on two days of indigo dying that was fascinating. I did some stitching on fabric, then pulling it tight to gather the fabric then putting it in the indigo pot. I also did some clamping and some shibori where you wrap the cloth around a wide pipe, scrunch it down so it's all wrinkled, then put the pipe in the indigo pot. You get a nice watery look.<br />
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Then after weeks of dying, I returned to collect my banner panel template. That's the paper on the left. You can see the red swoosh drawn in and the rules were dark on the bottom, light on the top. I collected some light fabric and lots of dark and mediums. There were lots of linens, some of them quite thin or very thick. They were very hard to work with and I'm a bit worried that a seem or two might come apart over the years. The hardest was a piece of velvet that would not stay still when you tried to sew a quarter inch seem. Those 6 pieces are very puffed up and 3 dimensional, so I'll leave them un-quilted.<br />
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I wanted to do something with my big wedge ruler, like the big wheel quilt I did earlier, but more inprovised and explosive looking. I got the OK to make the red part pixelated, not smooth, and got the OK to make the centre of the circle red, so here's what I did. It's sort of an explosion, or the sun, or creation. This panel is one that's on the east wall of the hall, so maybe it's sunrise.<br />
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It was not easy getting it to lay flat. I actually had to sew in some darts on the edges to reduce the ruffles. There's still one that's bugging me, but I think I can fold it and quilt along the fold to hold it down.<br />
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The back has some wedges that are off-cuts that hung over the edges of the template when I squared it up. The white wedge is for the label.<br />
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-64043359698991143642013-09-17T09:00:00.000-07:002013-10-12T19:26:46.885-07:00Kshreya's Quilt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm working on a quilt for my co-worker's new baby. I made one for her sister, so now I need one for her. She was born in the spring, so this isn't that late.<br />
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I saw a great quilt with the three diagonal stripes on each block and had to make my own version. This one is very low-volume, and at first I thought it was too pale, but it's been growing on me.<br />
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I swapped out some blocks that were just too low volume and chose these. It's about 32 inches by 42 inches.<br />
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I waited a month or so for inspiration to strike for the back. In the end I went back to making banners which I've done on three quilts now. I put together strips to get a 7 inch wide strip and cut the triangles from that. I ran out of the Kona Snow, so mixed in some slightly darker fabric to get this scrappy look.<br />
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Three cheers for 505 basting spray!! I'll be quilting it in the next few days in two overlapping spirals.<br />
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-6687656913927363142013-09-13T10:00:00.000-07:002013-09-13T10:00:05.605-07:00Striped Hexies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I always have wanted to make a striped hexie quilt and I finally found the perfect striped fabric. It has colourful stripes of varying widths on a white background. I bought 2 yards then calculated the size of triangle that maximized the number of hexies I'd get out of each yard. I realized I wouldn't have quite enough, so I pieced together some stripes to add to each strip so that I could get a few more rows of triangles. Most triangles have at least a colour and a white strip added. Some are mostly added strips with only an inch or two of the original fabric.<br />
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I had problems deciding how to edge the quilt. I didn't want to cut off the side hexies to straighten out the quilt, and I didn't want a pointy edge either, cause how do you pull that up to your neck? I finally decided to edge it all with a light grey, so now the hexies are laying on top of a grey field. I think it actually looks really good.<br />
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I'm thinking about the back now. Maybe a giant hexie coming up from a bottom corner that takes up about a third of the back? Maybe I'll make the stripes out of solids. <br />
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I got to show this off at the guild anniversary meeting in the park. We had our meeting outside and brought a picnic to eat during the meeting. There were 4 bands that showed up while we were there that set up under trees and jammed all evening long. I didn't know that was a thing here in Vancouver. I guess they just get together and jam in the park. A friend of mine wandered by looking for her ukelele group, so that was even another group somewhere jamming in the park.<br />
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-18756023720801263812013-09-10T20:57:00.002-07:002013-09-10T20:58:32.857-07:00Bits and Pieces that I'm working on<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
After all the dying activity abated, I've got back to working on several projects.<br />
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Dog Mat</h3>
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I made a little quilt for the bottom of a doggy kennel for a friend from the band who plays sax.<br />
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I thought the text strips would be like training a puppy with newspaper on the floor. I did some quilting from Angela Walters book. (A signed copy, thank you very much) <br />
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I used the Mod Mosaic technique for one side, and the pick-up sticks technique for the other side.<br />
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Scrap Slabs</h3>
I made three slabs for the Calgary flood relief that Cheryl Arkinson is organizing. She is here giving workshops and I was able to catch her trunkshow where she showed off her quilts from the Sunday Morning Quilts book. I bought the book there and she signed it too. The book is all about using your scraps.<br />
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She also debuted her new book, A Month of Sundays. That book contains quilts, clothes, recipes and essays and it looks really good too.<br />
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I made a couple of fabric boxes to tame my scrap heap from her book, "Sunday Morning Quilts." (A signed copy, too!)<br />
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Here's one of my new cupboards with mainly solids - and the two fabric boxes for scraps - a blue one and a grey one.<br />
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Lake Winnipeg Beach Baby Quilts</h3>
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I am making three suns to go on three baby quilts using a New York Beauty style block for the sun. I drew out one that's really big, then tried using Illustrator to do one on the computer. Something happened to my version of Illustrator, so I finally did it using FireWorks - a stripped down image editor that's really for web graphics and images. I didn't like the 4 points per quadrant, so I made a 5 points per quadrant one that looks sunnier.<br />
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The big one is the one we are going with, so now I gotta make 2 more. The Kaffe Fassett fabric works great for these suns. There's also a clam and a bird for the front, then a bunch of fossils for the back. All times 3!<br />
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Single Girl Block</h3>
I also tried out a Single Girl block using my own home made templates. I made an arc template and am improv piecing the arc, then cutting it to size using the template. I'm too lazy to make a bunch that I can paper piece onto, which would probably work out easier. Maybe I'll draw one up and photocopy it a bunch of times.<br />
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-32043064915156099882013-05-25T15:11:00.000-07:002013-05-25T15:11:28.700-07:00Disappearing 9 Patch Challenge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This month's challenge in the VMQG is the modernized disappearing 9 patch. For every block we make, we get a ticket and at the end of the meeting a winner or 2 is drawn and you can collect enough blocks to put together a quilt top.<br />
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My problem is I like making the blocks, but don't like putting the quilt together, so I usually just hand my blocks in and don't take any tickets. Last month I handed in 10 blocks and only took 2 tickets. There were enough blocks to have divide among 3 winners.<br />
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Most quilts with this pattern are very regular like this one I made for a nephew several years ago. You get a bow tie effect that's on the diagonal. For this quilt, the centre block was dark blue and the corner blocks for half the blocks were red and the other half were yellow. The other 4 blocks were light blue.<br />
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Here's Lawanda's version with the same fabrics.
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Here's Kenzie's version.
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However, if you add lots of negative space in random places, you get a much more modern look to your quilt. First make your 9 patches with your negative space blocks randomly placed in each block. Here's 4 blocks that I made using my home batiks (the ones that turned out a bit dark or muddy).
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Then cut each 9 patch in quarters exactly through the centre.<br />
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Mix them around, rotate them then put them back together and see what you end up with.<br />
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I've got some more 5 inch squares ready to put together to make some more, but will save them for Maker Fair next weekend. I can demo the technique during the day to show people what modern quilting is like.<br />
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-86869675478126099122013-05-15T20:19:00.001-07:002013-05-15T20:19:19.440-07:00Another colour way<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I just boiled the wax out of another colour way. <br />
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This one is really bright and citrusy. I think the check worked out very nice in this colour scheme. <br />
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-63705347086427721772013-05-13T07:00:00.000-07:002013-05-13T07:00:07.736-07:00More Dyeing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here's a light blue and green colour way being created. The darker blue areas and the white areas have wax on them. It's ready for the yellow dye bath.<br />
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I started with white pfd fabric and made 5 different patterns. I did two different potato mashers, a madras stripe and an argyle looking diamond one. I dyed them a very light blue - hardly 1/8 tsp of dark blue dye for a gallon of water. It came out a very nice pale blue, sort of robins egg blue. A quilt guild friend is making butterflies so I'm creating some butterfly wing looking fabric for her to use. This strip will be blue and green. I have more of this blue fabric ready to dye in red for a purple version and maybe a grey for a dark version.<br />
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Then I died them all a strong bright yellow. Yellow in the dye bath turns orange when you add the soda ash, but it doesn't seem to turn the dye that's in the fabric orange.<br />
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Next step is to boil out the wax and see what I got. I've got a bit of a green/blue vision issue so I may have to ask if this colour way is working or not.<br />
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After they have had the wax boiled out and are ironed, here's what they look like. The one on the bottom still has the wax on it. The pot was too small for all 4 pieces at once.<br />
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Here's the other two colour ways I did. I think I like the red and grey the best so far.<br />
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-10670973215035774672013-05-11T20:15:00.000-07:002013-05-11T20:05:57.564-07:00Big Hexies for the May VMQG Challenge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I got my Hexies ready for the VMQG May challenge. We were to make 5 1/2
inch Hexies in black and white and sew them into strips with one Kona
bright. Easy, peasy. <br />
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I found some really old leftovers from a black and white quilt top and added in random bright Kona that I had had in a heap on the floor. Quilt design decisions made by whatever I find close at hand.<br />
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These are so easy to make as strips of 3, but a real pain sewing them all together, even with the technique that was taught in a workshop at QuiltCon. Who ever wins them at the guild meeting is going to have a lot of work ahead.<br />
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I play the Euphonium in a local community band. We did a concert of movie tunes at a retirement complex on Saturday. Our drummer lives there and his two arrangements of Latin melodies was well appreciated by his friends. I was practicing for the concert and snapped this shot.<br />
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-24201753913041221782013-05-07T08:20:00.000-07:002013-05-11T19:54:52.316-07:00To Boston with Love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I got my banners for Boston done!<br />
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Here's a little about the project from the VMQG site:<br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">When tragedies occur, quilters and
crafters rally together and use creativity to comfort and heal those in
need. There have been Quilts for Japan, Pillowcases for Newtown, and
many other examples of the love and generosity of our community. Now as
we watch the events in Boston unfold, again we are putting our hands
together to do something for those affected. “To Boston With Love” is a
collaborative effort of makers to bring peace and love from far and
wide. What we’re planning is a public exhibition of flags strung into
banners that will be displayed in Boston in early June 2013</span><a href="http://vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca/blog/2013/04/to-boston-with-love/" target="_blank"> </a>
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Quilt guilds and individuals around the world are participating and the deadline for submitting your banner is May 21. There is a Flickr group and tutorials with patterns if you want to participate. Check out the VMQG site for links and instructions. <a href="http://vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca/blog/2013/04/to-boston-with-love-new-deadline-may-21st/" target="_blank"> http://vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca/blog/</a><br />
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I made two more to send off.<br />
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I'm not sure if I want to write something on the back or not. What can you say to a city and nation that has this happen to them?<br />
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-28219100376466954672013-05-01T01:13:00.000-07:002013-05-01T01:26:32.732-07:00Dyeing at Home: Palliative Care for FabricLet me show you my little set up for dying at home. I use Procion MX dyes. They are cold water dyes that use salt and soda ash in the process. I got them locally here in Vancouver, BC, at Maiwa on Granville Island. I'm pretty much following Malka Dubrawsky's instructions from her book and workshop. Check out her great book "Color Your Cloth: A Quilter's Guide to Dyeing and Patterning Fabric" for her complete instructions and great project ideas.<br />
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First there's the waxing. I had started outside on the colonnade, then I moved into the kitchen under the stairs beside the hot water tank to be closer to the sink and less cold. I use Kona PFD (prepared for dyeing) fabric.<br />
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You can see the electric frying pan with the melted wax, my potato masher stamp and the fabric pinned over a cardboard box. Since it's a big box, I keep the rest of the potato mashers and cardboard stamps in it.<br />
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Then the table gets set up for dying. The cooled wax in the electric fry pan goes into the box and slid under the table and the dye vats (by Rubber Maid) come out. This one has about 2 yards of waxed fabric soaking up the grey dye before the soda ash gets added. The soda ash has been dissolved in that container with the blue spoon in it.<br />
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Here's a turquoise vat getting fixed for a couple hours after the soda ash has been added.<br />
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Then the fabric is rinsed well until the water runs pretty clear, then hung up on a curtain rod in the hall at the top of the stairs. I put plastic sheeting on the floor and up the wall to the rod height and an old towel on the floor to catch the drips. There seems to be great air flow up the stairs because the fabric is dry in 90 minutes.<br />
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Here's the grey ones drying<br />
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Then I boil the finished fabric in a big pot for an hour, then let it cool outside so that the wax floats to the surface and solidifies. I pull the wax off the top of the pot and give the fabric a quick last rinse and hang it up again to dry. Here's the finished red and grey fabric. I made 4 16 inch strips that all coordinate. On these I stamped them with: a cardboard diamond stamp, a potato masher, a paint brush, and sun glass frames.<br />
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Here's a shot of the discharging process. The two vats are diluted bleach and diluted vinegar. You soak and agitate the fabric moving it from one bath to the other bath. The star fabric was all royal blue and the blue discharges almost completely. Here it's just a light grey and once it dried it was hardly coloured at all. The yellow does not discharge much at all.<br />
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Red discharges a bit and is quite slow. Turquoise discharges very slow,
and ends up a light light-blue. Brown discharges to orange, which makes
sense as it's the red and yellow in it that stay. I made a nice dark
plum colour with red and royal blue and it discharged to red, the blue
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So the process is pretty much Wax, Dye, Discharge, Repeat, then Boil out the wax. The discharge is an optional step, but without it, you'll have to always dye from light to dark and the second colour will usually be a mix of your first and second colours. For example red after yellow will be orange, blue after yellow will be green. <br />
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The fabric that I used three colours on usually didn't turn out that great. They end up dark and muddy. Two colours and one discharge give you great results and that limitation actually makes me more creative and gets me thinking about what will work out and look great. Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-42859414839496257012013-04-28T17:09:00.000-07:002013-05-01T01:27:37.283-07:00Fabric DyeingI haven't posted anything since QuiltCon in February. It's not because I haven't been doing anything, it's because Ive been dyeing.<br />
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I got into Malka Dubrawski's batik dyeing workshop. I was on the waiting list and got the call just a week before the convention saying a place had opened up. YEA!<br />
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I was so sick that day and arrived late, but it was great seeing the process she uses. I had bought her book last year, so I already had all the instructions. It was great to work through it all with her there and although we waxed the fabric for most of the day, we did get it all in dye baths and picked it up the next day. Since we didn't have time to dye it and get it dry so we could add more wax and dye it again, we all ended up with white and one colour on each piece of fabric.</div>
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When I got home from QuiltCon, I went to Maiwa on Granville Island and bought Procion MX dye, soda ash and brushes. I got some Pima Cotton from Maiwa and some Kona PFD from Spool of Thread. I added wax and more die to the 6 pieces from the workshop and waxed and dyed lots more. From each piece I cut some off and made a Shoo Fly block. I've seen it listed as Monkey Wrench too. Here's the quilt top from my first month's dying frenzy. </div>
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Here's what I started for the back of the quilt. Paula and Arita took a Hexie workshop at QuiltCon and shared the technique at the last guild meeting.<br />
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Most of the fabric is waxed using potato mashers for stamps. I found 9 different mashers with great patterns and have been using them all the time. I also made some cardboard stamps and have used the bottoms of candle holders as well.<br />
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I gave a day long workshop on Feb 3 for the VMQG where we all made some Gees Bend style blocks. The group of 12 was great, everyone brought very unique fabric with very unique colours and patterns.<br />
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We started out looking at three quilts done in this technique and I put 2 blocks up on the wall showing examples of how to make the square bulls-eye and what level of wonkyness and strip width to try, then we all got started.<br />
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Most people brought several options for fabrics so I went around consulting on what could be used as background and what could be used as the colour strips.<br />
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Here's what the first block for each person turned out once they were cut in quarters and put back together.<br />
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Then we all started making the blocks 3 or four at a time. Here's what they looked like once another block or two had been made. </div>
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I love how everything comes together so nicely with this technique. Each block that is made and cut up ends up very different from the previous. As you mix and match the blocks throughout the quilt, you get a very graphic effect. Depending on the background and contrast of the coloured fabrics, you can end up with a very calming effect like Heather, Arita and Gaye or a more jarring excitable effect like the rest of them. </div>
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Thanks so much, Terri and Arita for taking these pics throughout the day. Just because we're only showing 1 block for some people, doesn't mean they are slackers. We just didn't get a shot of their entire production.</div>
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If I have some mis-identified, let me know and I'll fix the names.</div>
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UPDATE: Arita finished her top!</div>
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01203038529206675937noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619624496779741690.post-56961630885578046692013-02-01T07:30:00.000-08:002013-02-01T07:30:00.995-08:00Mini Bento Boxes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I started sewing up these little quarter log cabin squares. This idea is from Modern Quilts Illustrated issue 2, a mini magazine with patterns, design ideas, quilty information all from Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr. They are amazing designers and have great ideas to share.<br />
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The blocks end up at 3.5 inches square.<br />
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I sewed a 3/4 inch white strip to the sides and made an 8 x 8 square<br />
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Then I made more and added them along two sides with a white inclusion running through.<br />
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I think I'll make a whole bunch more and keep growing it bigger. Perhaps as the "back" for this quilt. Curvy on one side, blocky on the other.<br />
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