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while rummaging around all the computers trying to sort out all our patterns etc last week, I stumbled upon a bunch of pics of quilts other people have made using our hand-dyed/hand-painted fabrics. I get a real kick out of seeing work other people do with my fabric or patterns. Some of these are original designs by an applique-teacher friend, and I think the diagonal quilt (2 versions of) design might be by Ann Johnson.
“Algernon” popped into my head this morning. I’m not sure if I like it or not for this horse, but I think it might be adorable for the unicorn.
I think I need to come up with another one (a palomino!) so I can use Buttermilk. Maybe two, because I love the idea of a horse named Lamington. There is another horse sketched up, actually, a very pretty pony. She kind of reminds me of those “My Little Pony” toys, as if they’re round little toddler versions of her slightly gawky teen self. She’d suit Lamington, maybe. There’s also another version of this guy, only (s)he’s rearing instead of doing that floating gavage thing. There’s also an elephant – would any of these names suit a longsufferingly gaudy elephant? I’ve just realised I have to give El’s fine dapplegrey a name, for the pattern. Mostly because “carousel horse #1″ is intolerably boring. In the draft of the instructions I’ve used a working title of “Elroy”, as a joke really, but it’s growing on me. Does he look like an Elroy to anyone else? El’s no help, she just calls him the booful horse. in 2001 my baby bro was diagnosed with leukemia. Our other brother was an almost perfect match, so became a donor for a bone marrow transplant which took place in September/August 2002. They both came through with flying colours, and four years later baby bro is still all clear. The Leukemia Foundation were great, with counselling & information before, during and after the BMT, and also in providing a flat next door to the hospital to be used when they first released him from the bubbleboy ward. At least a couple of us do The Shave every year to support them, because everything they provided (especially the flat) was so incredibly helpful. Clicking either of these pics will take you to my 2006 shavepage: fairly cruddy picture, wil try for a better one tomorrow, but WOOHOO! I actually unpicked some quilting I didn’t like, last night. Me. Unpicking. Armageddon approacheth, I’m tellin yer. Text all quilted, except for one line I plan to put in the border, most of which is also done. Hooves are done. Really there’s only the unpicked bit & the binding left to do. Am possibly going to – really want to – put a shaped, faced border on the bottom rather than standard binding.which means the rest won’t really have standard binding either – It’ll start out the same, but instead of folding to cover the edge & stitching down, I’ll take it right around to the back. Problem is there’s not enough wadding spare at the bottom to do the shaped border, so I’m going to have to putz with it. Engage Deep Thought & stuff, like. I was supposed to go to bed early tonight, since I’m driving down to Port in the morning to collect Loz and raid Spotlight, but I decided to do some more quilting on the carousel horse. I let myself get distracted by the dragons – I really need to work on this stupid self-sabotage where I scatter my attention more the closer some deadline approaches, and so instead of getting even one job truly finished I get a half dozen half-done. Up to my arse in (and up to here with) half-done.
Anyhow. So I quilted in the “turn, turn” fragments on the right, around his rear hooves and tail. Looks pretty good. Decided to use blue bobbin thread, because it suddenly occurred to me that it was completely bloody stupid to bollix up the front by trying to make sure the back would pass inspection by the quilt police. I’m not good enough (yet?) to pass inspection anyway, so what the hell was I thinking?! And after deciding that, I also decided that it probably would have looked pretty funky anyway if each section was quilted with front-matching bobbin thread. I’ll know better next time.
Finally got the dragon cartoon digitised so I can make up a pattern for sale. I’ve been getting requests for a pattern for something like five years now, but I could never find anywhere to scan (or even photocopy) the original drawing. I was going to get a NEIS friend to expose a screen for me & just print them myself – maybe even straight onto a foundation fabric rather than paper – but he fell off the planet a few years ago (which kind of sucked because I’d paid for the emulsion AND done a bunch of graphics work for him in exchange for some screens, so bah). So anyway yesterday I just gave up, cut a tracing of the original into A4-sized sections and scanned those, then stitched them together in Corel. It’s decidedly imperfect, because dad’s scanner is a dog, so I printed it out A4 and will trace manually and then scan the tracing in to get the final pattern version. But, YAY, digitised! Somewhere I’ve got most of the instructions written up, so woot, I might finally make some money off these suckers. I like to “write” with the sewing machine when I’m quilting, something that echoes the mood. These are some contenders I’m considering for the carousel horse, which is approaching completion … A Route of Evanescence Turn, turn, good wooden horses, Turn, turn, horses of their heart, colorful horses, all from that land an outline small and hardly yet begun impressionable and precious
Front & back pics linked from thumbs below. so sleepy … going to bed now.
Am feeling very proud of myself because despite a couple of mistakes and unfortunate incidents (some threads do not play nice together. This sucks if it means you get bobbin thread in a contrasting colour pulled through to the front), our friend J the quilting/sewing/embroidery teacher said I’m doing a beautiful job on the quilting. I felt sure she was going to go all sniffy white-glove at me heh. Neat birthday present :) |
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finally did the quilting on the actual horse’s actual body. Was originally not intending to do much if any, but since I got carried away on the background the horse itself needed some attention. So, he now has some very stylised suggestions of muscles and tendons and so on (see oversharpened detail at left), and the butterflies & flowers are quilted. The glass in the mirrors is also done, and the last frame.
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