Modern Art Quilters: week of making

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A WEEK OF... Day 5

I have moved onto playing with silk for the last couple of days, and wanted to get this small piece finished before I signed off for Christmas (visiting in-laws; hand sewing only when not wrapping the sprouts and roasting the presents)

The pudgy fingers are just there to give an idea of scale. Not quite a miniature, but definitely small. When I get home, I might try it again half this size!

Week of Woolliness

This may have cured me of the desire to make a wool throw - about 48 inches square. I'm pleased with the look of it, but the fluff and the fibres in my sore throat, ugh!

Now, I am told that the Icelanders go to bed on Christmas eve with a new book and a box of chocolates. Such sensible people..

A WEEK OF... Day 3

Well, despite sewing through my finger yesterday (d'oh!) and spending most of today wrestling to get the QGBI Modern Quilt Group newsletter ready for publication I have managed to finish my first woolly projects. I started off with 3 inch squares - I thought that was about the limit of my capabilities even though I do love making miniatures, wool is not the medium to use!

Pin cushions with feature buttons, and an excuse to empty the button box for those odd fancy buttons that are too nice to throw away

This little bag (currently lacking handles) has a recessed zip and internal phone pocket. I know we have some very nice leather handles and I am hoping a pair will be suitable to finish this. They will need to be hand stitched in place - not looking forward to that with a sore finger - ouch!

Week of Wool and Silk (and linen, and such)

Well, I spent a deal of day one arranging boxes of Stuff, and making these Workshop Pincushion Bags in assorted tweeds and sparkles.. Poor image, sorry..

Then some experimenting. All rather diverted by a lovely Solstice Supper with my nearests and dearests, which was enjoyed muchly by all..

A WEEK OF...Day 1

Every now and then we like to have A WEEK OF... giving us a chance to concentrate on a particular aspect of our art practise, or in fact our respective businesses (being a penniless artist might sound romantic, but really one has to be self supporting.) This week we are combining both areas and having a A WEEK OF SILK & WOOL. This is a great opportunity for us to rake through our every increasing stashes of silk and wool (it seems to self generate - I am sure we didn't have this much last time we did this) and work on something a bit different, perhaps an inspirational piece, or some things for the shop. Anything to reduce the size/number of the boxes.

Most of the time we work in quilters' cotton, but occasionally you just get a hankering for a bit of texture. To this end we have also included linen, heavy cottons, and of course hand-dyes, indigo, tweedy checks and tartans.

Now the fun begins - pressing, cutting and making. We'll be posting throughout the week to show you our progress!

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Welcome to our new blog, about making and sewing and improvising, and all manner of quiltingy things...
This week we are having a Week of Making, with a Christmas in mind (possibly this year's)
Wednesday produced
A big box of Dyers Packs