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Made using just fabric from my stash. Mix of quilting cottons, japanese fabrics and pillowcases and sheets I've picked up from charity shops for the blocks - it worked out to be about 50/50 scraps/yardage, the sashing is good old Lincraft Homespun.
Blogged with a bit more info: craftblog.com.au/2009/11/22/my-current-quilty-wip/
Blogged about finishing the quilt here: craftblog.com.au/2009/12/01/declans-quilt-is-finished/
The state of things in my master bedroom at the moment.
The oak bed was a Craigslist find, and I keep meaning to refinish it but haven't yet because I can't decide what to do with it. Love it, though. I call it my "Princess Bed."
On Cottage Magpie: My Wandering Eye
I felt a crazy urge to make a scrap patchwork quilt and went mad in my stash, cutting up 100 5" squares. This is meant to be just a bright, cheerful hodgepodge of a picnic quilt (do we go on picnics? not really. But somehow I imagine sitting under the tree on this playing with the kids, reading a book, etc.)
mixed media collage works, in acrylic. I have been burning it up lately, and these are stages of works in progress. eventually i want to make time lapse gifs.
My new project is to make a mixed media piece based on the prison door of Stafford Gaol which Emma Sproson describes in her memoires.
She speaks in some detail about the marks and messages scratched onto its surface.
The base of the piece is calico, on to which I have hand stitched further pieces of calico and linen.
I am now adding another layer of hand stitching as well as areas of PVA. I have scratched marks into the surface of the PVA and when this layer is dry I hope to add further layers of acrylic modelling paste, emulsion paint and then a top layer of acrylic paint ( and anything else which comes to hand!).
I hope that the final impression is that of a dark, multi-layered piece.
It measures about 3 foot by 4 foot at the moment, but it could end up much larger.
I don't know if this is the technical way to be doing the stem stitch, but I like the way this looks so I really don't care. ;)
As I knitted with such large needles, the resulting piece is very stretchy.
Here I show some samples of the lining material ( left) and samples of the fabric and wool I will be weaving through the knitting.
The day after the Sewing for Pleasure show. My desk.
I bought several exciting items, some of which I used today. I also tidied up my samples and used them to make cards.
Grease Alley, an industrial backwater neighborhood in a blade-runner/fifth-element genre. These shops back onto a trash and old parts-strewn gully, where the junk skiff comes by to pick up broken components, industrial leftovers, and the occasional "borrowed" part.
This is the back, again, with the shells just placed to see how they look. The different sections are embroidered in different styles, to reinforce their differences.