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Now you see it…

19 Monday Mar 2012

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applique, Arabesque, quilt, quilting blog, reverse applique, sewing blog, sewjournal blog

Ugly, ugly TVs. I detest them. We just bought a cheap one, previously we didn’t have one in the lounge at all. However, it’s kept to the side and we only wheel out in front of the couch when we want to watch it. I still don’t like it though it’s so ugly. Hence the title:

Now you see it…

 

And now you don’t!

Serendipity to the rescue

It just so happens that my Arabesque reverse appliqué quilt is the right size to cover it. So, some elastic, two safety pins (don’t tell anyone)and a few minutes later the offending TV is invisible. We keep the TV unplugged when we’re not using it so there’s no chance of it overheating or anything like that. What do you think? Does it work or does it look seriously weird – or perhaps both?

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A Fabric Delivery and Some Progress

22 Sunday Jan 2012

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applique, fabric, fabrics, quilting blog, reverse applique, sewing blog, sewjournal blog

As I mentioned a couple of posts ago I have quite a bit to share. I think I told you that some my 2011 fabric orders had arrived. Want to see? The first pics are of my Shabby Fabrics order. The top fabric is a lovely lemon on white print (camera doesn’t do it justice) and the others are these gorgeous solids.

I’m really happy with the service from Shabby fabrics as I told you in an earlier post and as a copywriter and marketing consultant in my day job, I appreciate their marketing abililty. Their business card has all the regular quilt sizes with fabric quantities for the quilt and the binding on the back. What a great way to get you to keep their business card!. Well done ladies. Pity I’m on a fabric fast for 2012 I won’t be able to shop there for another 12 months.

I also got part of my order from Hancock’s recently too. All these lovely striped fabrics and a Sewline glue stick.

I’ll be interested to see how good that is as I’m unimpressed with the Sewline pen of which I have had two and both ended up breaking with leads stuck inside the mechanism.

And just in case you think all I’ve been doing is stroking fabric here’s a progress picture on the Copper Tray Pattern appliqué.

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Press ‘n’ Seal Applique Part 2 and a favour to ask

16 Monday Jan 2012

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Once I had put the Press ‘n’ Seal onto the top fabric I chose my other fabrics.

The grey underneath will be the top fabric and the others will be the ones that peep through.

My next step was to place it on top of my light box and slide the fabric I planned to use for the centre underneath it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then I pinned, using my small appliqué pins, around the central design and through all three layers.

Then I flipped it over and clipped the fabric around the pinned area.  After that I used some YLI Basting Thread (thanks Sylvia) and sewed small running stitches along the red lines.

Once basted I clipped around the basted lines to within 1/4″ and then moved on to the next piece. Here’s a picture of the back of the project with what I’ve basted so far.

Can I ask a favour?

I have entered my Andalusian Tile Quilt in the Aurifil FaceBook competition. Can I ask you to pleas go and have a look and if you like it, to please vote for it? Thanks so much. The link is here.

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What next? A new appliqué project?

15 Sunday Jan 2012

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applique, back basting, basting, design, Press 'n' Seal, quilting blog, reverse applique, sewing blog, sewjournal blog

I’ve so many different things to post about and I can’t decide where to start. There’s the fabric orders that arrived from Hancock’s and Shabby Fabrics; the new knitting I’ve started, the gorgeous new fine yarn I bought and the lacy shawl patterns I’m agonising over; then there’s my latest applique project and the new way I’ve tried for transferring the pattern and… Well you get the picture.

A new appliqué project

I love the pattern on this copper tray table and I thought it would make a great reverse appliqué project but I couldn’t think of a good way to transfer the pattern.

Using tracing paper like I usually do would be difficult even if I stuck it down because of the slippery rounded metal edges.

Then I remembered that my friend Annette from the QuiltsByHand Yahoo group once sent me some Press ‘n’ Seal. So I decided to give it a go.

It is wonderful! I used three strips of it to cover the tray and it stuck beautifully.

I used a red Sharpie pen and drew the design onto the Press ‘n’ Seal and, as you can see, that also worked well.

Once I had transferred the design, I taped the three strips of Press ‘n’ Seal together so i could remove it in one go. I brought my light box next to the tray so I could quickly transfer it to a flat surface. I removed it carefully from the tray doing my best not to stretch it. Once on the light box my plan was to put the fabric I had chosen for the background (a grey Kona solid) over the lightbox and trace the design onto it in pencil.

I tried this but the fabric moved too much. This isn’t much of a problem with leaves and flowers but with straight lines and geometric patterns it is.

Then I had a vague memory from an online appliqué class about being able to stick the Press ‘n’ Seal directly onto the fabric so that’s what I did. I laid my fabric flat and very carefully pressed the Press ‘n’ Seal onto it and it stuck really, really well.

I’ll show you more of the process of attaching the other fabrics and basting them into position in my next post, so stay tuned.

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Quilting the wall hanging

18 Saturday Jun 2011

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hand quilting, quilt, quilting, quilting blog, reverse applique, sewing blog, sewjournal blog

I started the cross hatch quilting on the wall hanging and I was very happy with the way it was going when there was an interesting conversation on quilting density on the Yahoo quiltsbyhand group.

Doris asked a question about quilting density and Sylvia gave a really comprehensive answer which got me thinking, that my wall hanging may have a problem.

Sylvia pointed out that quilts that have differing quilting densities in different areas of the quilt can have problems. That sounded like a description of the wall hanging as I wasn’t planning on quilting the appliqué at all and the central medallion is quite a large percentage of the quilt.

So after I had done all the cross hatching, I had to set to and start quilting around the appliqué.

 

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Another Bee in Oz Block

13 Monday Jun 2011

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The postie brought me another Bee in Oz block. This time it was from Chérie. I think it’s gorgoeus! This is going to be one riotous quilt. What do you reckon?

 

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Appliqué Wall-hanging Update

11 Saturday Jun 2011

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I haven’t shown you my appliqué wall-hanging for a while. The turquoise appliqué I showed you here that will go in the centre medallion now looks like this.

 

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More reverse applique…

25 Wednesday May 2011

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applique, Arabesque, quilting blog, reverse applique, sewing blog, sewjournal blog

I’m reverse appliqueing a centre medallion for the applique that I showed you a few days ago.
Here’s what I’ve done so far.
I’m using the Magnolia Lane Painter’s Canvas. The design is an Arabesque and I used my Trace ‘n’ Baste method to transfer the design to the fabric. I was thinking that if I ever do some Hawaiian applique I might use this technique.

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Appliqué Again

10 Tuesday May 2011

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I managed to do some of the appliqué project that was MIA for a while. I couldn’t find it anywhere until I reorganised my fabric. It’s quite a difficult one and I’m not yet sure that the whole thing is “do-able” but here’s what I’ve done so far.

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My article has been published!

02 Wednesday Mar 2011

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applique, patchwork, quilt, quilting blog, reverse applique, sewing blog, sewjournal blog, The Quilt Pattern Magazine

First, if you’re looking for the post on Angel James’ Story and the Charity Quilt Auction you can find it here.

Second if you want to bid on the quilt (please do 🙂 ) you can do that here.

 

My article has been published!

My article on the Trace and Baste method I used for my Labyrinth Quilt has been published in the March edition of The Quilt Pattern Magazine! The Quilt Pattern Magazine is an online magazine and subscription is only $13.99 for 12 issues! That’s got to be great value, don’t you think?

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