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Time for some mroe Carnival Music EQ projects! If you are interested in the fabric, you can get purchasing information here. This week I have 2 designs, each in 3 colorways. You can click on any of the images to see them larger.
First up, Chained Pinwheels
This next one is called Emerging Star
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You seemded to enjoy the Osprey photo from last week so I'm decided to share the rest of the photos that I took over the July 4th weekend.
This last one is probably my favorite. I liked these photos well enough that I decided to order some note cards for me and Anne with these photos. I uploaded 10 photos to Zazzle and the cards turned out great. They are still in Zazzle so if you, or an Osprey lover that you know, want some Osprey note cards, well, they are there!
Design a personalized gift at Zazzle.
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First of all, the new Field Tripping the Web is posted for you at 3 Creative Studios.
Today's journal quilt was just an exercise in fun. I wanted to do something with the Carnival Music palette. I got out the Go Cutter and had fun with circles and leaves. I pleated the big circles a little so that they would ripple off the surface of the quilt a bit. I should add some beads but I can't take time out from the big quilt to play with beads this weekend.
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I've been very busy restocking some of the most popular gradient patterns. All of these are available in the shop now. From left to right they are:
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Another thing I am doing a lot of these days is labeling quilts. I have some to do for gifts and several to do for the quilts that are going to the museum exhibit in September. I'm just not good at keeping up in that particular chore.
I thought I'd share how I do my labels, although, I admit to occasionally just using a permanent marker and adding my name and date right on the quilt. But, when I'm not lazy, I make my labels like this.
My preferred label is one that's printed from my PC on fabric. I create the images in Powerpoint but any photo editing software would work and Google Docs has free tools for creating presentations or documents.
I like to use an image of the quilt (or part of the quilt) as a background for my label. In the 2 labels above I used part of an image and I purposely faded the image a bit. The two labels on the bottom of the sheet are for Anne. She's got a big "thing" for skulls.
I cut out the label leaving about 3/8" all the way around and I clip off part of the corner. I then cut a piece of plain white fabric the exact size of the label and fuse that to the back of the label. I think this makes the label look nicer by blocking any show through from the quilt backing or from teh turned under edges.
I actually keep a good sized chunk of white fabric with Mistyfuse on one side so that I can cut these lining pieces as I need them.
Press the corners and sides to the back.
To avoid pinning the label to the quilt and for added security in case someone tries to remove the label, I fuse more Mistyfuse to the back of the label. This has the added benefit of keeping the seam allowances pressed in place.
Fuse the label to the quilt and hand stitch it in place. The best part of this is that if I don't really have to stitch it if it isn't going to be washed.....but I do stitch them....but there might come a day when I don't!
Pretty exciting, huh?
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