Word Window

 Whether to be legible or not is still the question. Further complicating the original look of this text on sheers piece that I made last November is cutting it up into four pieces and then reassembling them after rotating their positions.

I used my new fabric glue stick thing- Odif 505 temporary adhesive which goes on blue and then disappears.

Arranged the glue-y sheer pieces on some grey fabric and then cut to size.

I chose to use the black and white Wonderfil D-twist thread for some zig-zagging between the pieces. This is Weird thread, it is very wound up, more so than usual thread. So be prepared when you first unwind it. It sews up just fine though.

I think it looks pretty good. I wanted it to be visible and just a little bit more interesting than a solid color.

First try at which fabrics to use for the sky part of the quilt.

Adding in the acid green of the sea, and the red-framed window of words. Just getting started.

Sister Artists Quilt Top

 

The quilt top for the Sister Artists embroidered blocks is looking a little askew at this point, but was coming into focus. My DH said it was looking through a window into a tree and the sky. My response was "hooray!" because that was what I was going for.

Bottom border adding on the blue and then some cutting.

And there it is, all framed up and ready to layer and quilt and finish.

Sister's Curves

My first step today working on the Sister Artists quilt top was to finish off the bird tree/bush section. I added the dark strip at the bottom and the pieced together top strip at the top.

I like this outer frame-ish thing that I've got going. It may remain on the quilt top or be turned around to the back as a facing/edge treatment, we shall see.

Here's part of the curves of the tree/bush now pieced in. I changed out the fabric sewn to the bottom left butterfly section to the darker spiral-y one. I also removed about an 1.5" of one of the horizontal green strips.

Here's my stopping point for today. It's nearly there I think.
 

Sister's Bird

Now that the three butterflies are started, I switched over to green and worked on the bird embroidered block for the Sister Artists quilt. (still in need of a title at this point)

One the way into the green.

That's how far I got with it.

Here's how it's looking with the butterflies. Now to combine them.
 

Starting Sisters

I began my quilt for the Sister Artists exhibit today. Using the now-inked-up embroidered butterflies, I'm working on getting some fabric added around the colored part of the background.

 The first round of border strips, cut improvisational style of various widths.

And then the final, at least for now, borders.

I'll be joining these together with other blue fabrics for the background.

I tried to vary the fabrics I used except for two.

I'm pretty pleased with how I've started. Now to get the bird-y border started.

Blocks For Giving

I was getting very tired of working with the red and neutral from all the Old Town mystery quilt flying geese over the last few days and switched over to something quick. Something that I could actually pick up, sew and actually finish. When I went to Sew Day back in December, I picked up a couple packs of block ingredients from the Community Giving Table.

As usual there's a huge variety in the fabrics. Some are pretty great, current ones, interesting vintage fabrics, solids of various weights, and then there's the others (eyelet?!).

When you look at the blocks all together, it's certainly is an interesting variety. I'm so curious to see what this quilt turns out to look like when it's finished! 

I'm so glad to have actually:

 A) Sewn something and B) Finished something. 

 

All Paired Up

 Still haven't sewn a seam, but now the preparations for the red and neutral Flying Geese sets are complete. This for one of the Old Town mystery quilt clues. I found myself running out of neutral strips to cut up into the wing triangles. So that meant some more ironing and strip cutting.

All paired up and ready to sew.