Field Trips in Fiber - Adventures in quilting, hand dyed fabric and fiber art.

2007 projects Completed

Here's a roundup of the year's completed projects. Not bad!

Postcards

Dec 31 – 3 Friends at the Art Gallery

Dec 8 - 3 sets of Christmas postcards

Nov 18 - Black, white and 1 color

Sep 26 - New Beginnings and Great Outdoors

Aug 25 - Self Portrait

Aug 4 - "Splash"

Jun 3 - SG "Sewing Room"

Jun 25 - Fast Food

May 30 - Earth

May 29 - QA Summer

May 12 - May Birthday

Apr 28 - QA swap "air" themed

Apr 9 - Bird

Mar 27 - QA "Fire"

Feb 24 - QA Water

Feb 18 - From the Kitchen

Jan 31 - Monogram postcards for Quilting Adventures class

Longarm Quilting For others

Aug 18 - quilt Mom's Stack and Whack quilt

Apr 26 - 2 Female QOV quilts quilted for Quilt Studio

Feb 10 - Kim's Quilt quilted

Feb 3 - Anne's Snails Trail Quilting

Community Service

Oct 27 - Chinese Coins QOV

Sep 30 - Quilt For an Hour QOV

July 4 - Friendship Star QOV

May 6 - QOV Quilt For An Hour Batik

Mar 15 - Binding Reversible Baby quilt for Quilt Studio Project

Jan 8 - Quilt Studio QOV

Personal Projects and Gifts

Dec 29 – Music-themed pillow for James

Dec 26 – many mixed media boxes for Christmas gifts

Nov 12 - Purple/Gold Indygo Junction Jacket

Sept 3 - Anti-Watercolor Quilt

May 26 - James Graduation Quilt

May 5 - Baby Snails Trail Quilt

May 5 - Baseball pillow for my boss

April 1 - Blue & White Snails Trail Quilt

Jan 7 - Phoebe's Indygo Junction Jacket

"3 Friends at the Art Gallery" Postcard

This postcard is for the Stitcher's Guild "Favorite Artist" postcard swap. I'm embarrassed to admit that it was due December 15th. I did get it done in December though!

We were supposed to depict a work by our favorite artist. I had too many idea and very little in the way of plans for execution. I woke one morning last week with this idea. It's three friends discussing a piece of art in a gallery. It's the discussion we all hope no one had about anything we create!

It also proves that there is a use for all of those snips and bits of thread that pile up near the sewing machine! The frame is black Timtex. the conversation bubbles were developed in PowerPoint and printed on fabric. There's very little sewing but a lot of fusible web on this one!

A Music Pillow

A few weeks ago Ellen (a friend I met through the LQS) read my post about my visit to see my nephew. She has an embroidery machine and offered to stitch out this music design for me. Today I made it into a 20" square pillow. the gray fabric and the music print fabric are left over from my nephew's graduation quilt. The red is left over from the quilt I just made for Anne. I love how it turned out and can't wait to send it to him when he returns to school in a couple of weeks!

Thank you Ellen, the embroidery is PERFECT!

Stash Report

There's not a lot to report this week. But what I have is good!

• I didn't buy anything - no fabric, no books, no tools, no beads, no yarns, nothing!
• I used about a yard of fabric from the stash to finish off the Christmas boxes and, except for the red fabric, all of the fabric in Anne's quilt is from stash. The backing was hand dyed for the quilt but I'm not counting my hand dyed fabric. I dye it as I need it.
• I used 5 fat quarters for the metallic painting and gave 4 of the 5 pieces away. I want to paint more of them Wednesday.

The interesting thing that I've noticed after the Christmas box extravaganza is that I've used almost a bolt of WonderUnder, almost all of my MistyFuse, about half a bolt of Timtex and used up a couple of colors of felt. I don't really consider those stash items since I buy them as I need them. I like buying these supplies by the bolt because it's less expensive and it keeps me out of the fabric stores!

I will probably buy some more felt this week since Hancock's is next door to the sewing machine store. I've got to take my Pfaff in for a service. It needs it desperately!

I am looking forward to getting back to my normal sewing and some more fabric painting this week. Christmas is officially OVER!

Finished the Red/White/Black String Quilt

I finished this quilt today. It's a Christmas gift for my friend Anne. Now before you point out that it's AFTER Christmas, I should note that she hasn't even started to make my gift yet! So, I'm early.

I started this in September at Craft Week. I made 4 blocks and Anne immediately claimed it as hers. It is based on the pattern used for the Heartstrings Quilt Project. I originally thought I might make this as a QOV. I'll make another for QOV - this one spoke to Anne and you have to let the quilt speak!

It is 70 x 90 and aside from the red used for the center strings and the inner border, it's all stash fabric. I started it because I had so many left over strings of black and white print fabrics.

The backing fabric is hand dyed gray and it is quilted with the Timeless Quilting - Feathered Curls pantograph. This was the first time I used this one and it will be one of my new favorites. It's very well balanced and has just the right density for my tastes.  the thread is Superior Threads "So Fine!" in Scarlet.

Here's the label that Debra embroidered for me. The color of the backing fabric is most accurate in the photos of the label. It's the perfect finishing touch!