Wow, hard to believe it's been a month since our last post. Time to catch up! Elizabeth is off traveling in Asia, so this post is from Sue about what's been going on in the studio for the last month or so - late spring/early summer. April was a really busy month for me, so May and June were intentionally slower as far as projects go, plus during both of those months I spent time in PA with my mother. Is it really almost mid-July already?
One thing I did was to finally finish my spiral quilt from Susan Carlson's class at the QU show 2 years ago. This is done with Susan's fabric collage method; all the pieces are held in place with glue, then covered with tulle and quilted to hold it all in place. All the handwork, including binding, label, and sleeve is now done, so there's one quilt I can put in next year's show!
In June I took a second class on quilting with rulers; it was actually day 2 of the class I first took in February. I went with the intention of getting more practice with the rulers I already had, but of course we were able to try other rulers and I ended up buying more - no surprise there. I took along a quilt top I had found in my studio clean up earlier this year in the hope that I might use it to practice on. I found that I liked the overall design that could be done with the apple core ruler and started quilting in class, finishing up the binding last week. I'm not sure what this pattern is called - its a piece that's been around for a good 10 years or more!
Here's a close up of the apple core quilting pattern.
June was also the month when spring postcards were due for my swap group. Our theme this time was "perchance to dream". Since I recently found out that I will have a quilt on exhibit at Houston this year, I decided to highlight that as my dream come true. Here are the 6 postcards I made - a city skyline with the word "Houston" screen printed on top. Elizabeth and I will be making our first trip to Houston this year!
I have also been trying to finish a quilt top called Paint Chips that I started in Karla Alexander's class at VCQ's Celebration retreat in April. I got all the rows together in May, and finally finished adding the borders yesterday. Now to find some backing and work on the quilting.
And last but not least, my regional SAQA group issued a challenge due the end of July to make a 12" piece that illustrates "making your mark". I'm working on mine, starting with thermofax printed fabrics and adding hand stitching - mark making in progress. Here is a sneak peak.
It helps to catalog here what I've been working on. Sometimes it doesn't seem like much, but then I look back and see I've done more than I thought. Now to get back to some other started projects! And maybe some new ones too!
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