tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71463077397484294822024-02-07T07:42:20.404-08:00Viv's Crazy Quilting JourneyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-38931797674343628582015-07-22T02:29:00.001-07:002015-07-22T02:36:47.709-07:00"Colours of my Mind" because these are the colours I want in my head!!!I have stitched the pieces of material around the central copy of the beach painting. I tried to use the colours that would extend the painting out to the edge of my picture. The line of hand-tacking is a good 1/2 inch or 1.5cm past the edge of where the picture ends, giving me plenty of room to run trims over the edge and giving me a decent turning over the board when it's finished.<br />
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Any "wobbly" areas or seams will be covered with trim, beading or embroidery so won't be noticeable. The main exercise for today was to get all the pieces of material attached to the backing fabric. So far I like what I've done. I've also dyed some lace to use as grasses on the sand.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the colours show up darker than they really area. For instance, the dark purple on the left is actually a shot silk in purple and pink and the ugly "grey" patch on the right is really a beautiful mushroom pink velvet.</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-48152671742953044232015-07-15T01:21:00.002-07:002015-07-15T01:21:22.435-07:00Meditation Crazy Quilt pictureToday I started tossing around ideas for a new project. I found this oil painting in a charity shop and it looked so peaceful and tranquil - almost like an unspoken prayer. I loved the pale colours especially the sky where the mauve flows up into the pink. Anyway, I took the picture out of the gold frame, scanned it into the computer and then printed it on Photo paper. After that, I machine stitched the A4 material image onto backing fabric and I've started messing around with various colours and tones of material to try and extend the picture out on all sides. I'll use the original to refer to when I want to add grasses and seaweed to the sides and bottom edges. <br />
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The original painting is on the right, while the same image transferred onto material is in the centre of all the toning scraps of fabric which I will stitch around it to create a crazy quilted border. I have a stunning image in my head but getting it onto material to frame is a whole different matter!!!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-78219807130244407692015-06-19T22:14:00.003-07:002015-06-19T22:14:58.790-07:00Colours of New Zealand picture I finished the Colours of New Zealand cq picture and I blogging it just so I have a record of how it turned out and also to compare it to my previous two "Colours of......." pictures. There is a lot of background texture in this picture that doesn't show in the front. For instance, the lake beneath the mountains is a piece of silk fabric which has been smocked on the back to create the ridges. Once it was sewn in place, I stitched rows of beads between the grooves. The snow on the mountains was a piece of very sparkly stretch open-weave material which was ironed onto a stabilizing fabric before being cut out and appliqued onto the grey satin mountains with blanket stitch worked in a similar coloured sparkly thread. And the fields on the left were small pieces of various green and yellow materials machine sewn into a patchwork of squares before being sewn to the backing. The Kiwi was a piece of patchwork material with the Kiwis already included. I used two strands of embroidery floss and stitched over the top of the existing bird then went over the top with a single strand to make it more fluffy. I used the colours that were already printed on the fabric to create the shading.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lady who ordered this picture was from Christchurch, New Zealand. She asked for mountains and sea, River Avon, lambs, the Christchurch Cathedral (now gone since the earthquake), Hydrageas, a Kiwi, a Tiki and she sent me a photo of the first house that they lived in which I printed out on fabric and embellished. The red flowers represent the New Zealand Christmas Tree.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When my friend saw the Sardinia picture, she commented "I wonder what the Colours of Widnes would be - dirty old town!". That was like red rag to a bull and I had to show her what my impression of the "Colours of Widnes", which is an industrial town in Lancashire, England, would be. Unknowingly, I included the bridge that her grandfather worked on and the Widnes Railway Station which was where her father worked. I love this picture, so dull and grey and yet so interesting.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And here is the original "Colours of Sardinia" picture which I made for a friend from work and his wife as a house-warming present. It doesn't matter that they'd been in the house by the time I finished the picture, they loved it, especially Anna who said that it completely captured the beautiful colours of their homeland, Sardinia, Italy. It was from this that the Widnes picture evolved and eventually the NZ picture.</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-75050802449757367942015-03-29T02:13:00.002-07:002015-03-29T02:13:54.247-07:00Cream blocks joined in pairsHere are the first eight cream-on-cream blocks which I've joined down the centre in pairs so that I could embroider over the joining seam. Apart from the gold basket which has been stitched over with flowers, I have unpicked all the metal charms and replaced them with gold embroidery. Now that I have to wait two weeks for my wrist to heal, I can at least continue unpicking more gold metal charms before I am allowed to start stitching again. Anyway, lots of people have commented that my cream blocks have been a long time coming out of hiding so here are the first four pairs.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-45704065587992250732015-01-03T15:24:00.001-08:002015-01-03T15:24:41.130-08:00Hexagon 26 FinishedThis is hexagon number 26. A little too bright for my normal taste but I need to have an even mix of brights and pastels in this quilt in order to have some contrast. I went back to something that I haven't done for ages, in fact I can't remember the last time I made a button trail but this block seemed to call out for one. The crochet lace and the green embroidery under the red flower is a chunk cut from an old doily I think it fits that corner quite well. I finished this one yesterday in the hospital. Today Eddie wants me to bring the circle of 19 hexies and the seven finished individual ones and start stitching the next row around the circles - I think he wants to be part of the process of choosing which hexie goes where so that the colours of the borders look good together. I love it when he wants to be part of the process - it's his journey more than it is mine.........<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-69992421529552230542014-12-31T15:19:00.001-08:002014-12-31T15:19:43.490-08:00Hexie 25 finished. Eddie's favourite.Yesterday I sat with my husband Eddie in Kalamunda Hospital and finished the edging on Hexagon number 25. He had been transferred to Kalamunda Palliative Care Hospital and Hospice earlier in the day from Royal Perth Hospital and was much happier to be in a place of quiet calm instead of the frenetic pace of a large public government hospital in the middle of a big city. Kalamunda is on the eastern edge of Perth suburbia, it is leafy and shady and surrounded by tall gum trees and the hospital is built around a quadrangle which has ferns, trees and a pond and fountain with gold fish........a lovely place to be. We could hear the sounds of Kookaburras and Magpies and Eddie could lie back and feel peaceful knowing that he is in a much better environment. His room is light and airy with an en-suite bathroom, the nurses are much more patient-friendly and he looks out onto the open garden area. Hopefully, if the doctors can do something about controlling his pain levels, he may be able to come home for a while, if not, then he couldn't be in a nicer place.<br />
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While he lay back and relaxed either on the bed or on a large comfortable chair, I stitched and when this hexie was completed, Eddie reckoned that it is definitely his favourite by a long way. I think it is the colours which are very light and Summery - whatever the reason, this one will always be special to me now.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-1910106842318182822014-12-25T04:35:00.001-08:002014-12-25T04:35:26.402-08:00The Princess Dress fits the Princess!Today my step-son sent me this photo of his daughter Alyssa in her princess dress. Considering that I guessed her length, it fits really well. Now, if the two fairies fit this well, I shall be happy. I don't know what she was doing with her hands - flapping or clapping them probably!<br />
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My DH Eddie didn’t get a wink of sleep Saturday night
because of uncontrolled 10/10 pain despite a morphine pump going into his
stomach plus a load of oral pain-killers. Hopefully the radiation that he is
scheduled to have today will work on the pain levels............fingers
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In the meantime, he slept for over three hours yesterday
while I sat next to him, stitching hexie 24. It wasn’t on my agenda to finish
it but because I just sat and concentrated, here it is. I trialled lots of
different coloured backing fabrics, thinking that lime green would be the
best.........yuck! way too much lime green. After several trials and errors, I
finished up (to my own surprise as much as anything) with pale sky blue. I’ve
let a few of the beads and buttons go over the edge of the backing rather than
stop short of the edge of the hexie leaving a bare bit along the seams.<br />
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I'm not happy with the fold over the left hand side, I'll have to
unpick that bit and re-do it. In the flesh, it is not noticible that it
is crooked but in the photo it really shows up. Comes from sitting in a
darkened room with the blind down, curtains drawn around DH's hospital
bed and the door shut.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-10321422621384989952014-12-19T03:11:00.001-08:002014-12-19T03:15:06.680-08:00Finally - the Princess Dress is finishedWith only six days to go before Christmas I finished the princess dress for Alyssa, who is six in January. This has been a real chore in the end because I am spending every day, all day, at Royal Perth Hospital with my husband Eddie who is suffering from advanced cancer. I have been going out to the sewing room sometime between 6 and 7 in the morning and sewing for an hour and a half, maybe two hours, and then going to the hospital where I do the hand-sewing. This dress is the same pattern as the other two fairies, frankly I am sick to death of this pattern now. Anyway, here is the Princess dress.......BTW, both sleeves are the same size, the way the dress is hanging on the hook makes one sleeve look bigger than the other........believe me, it isn't......<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-16427149931359171422014-12-12T03:02:00.000-08:002014-12-12T03:02:01.615-08:00Hexie 23 - LilacsHere is hexie 23 which started off with the picture of the vase of Lilacs. I thought the Lilacs looked too flat so covered them in French knots using 3,2 and 1 twists but keeping the colours as close as possible to the original photo. At the moment I have a stiff neck and can't turn my head very far to the right as a legacy from keeping my head in one position while doing all the French knots.......duh!! I also thought it would be hard to find a suitable backing but this mustard yellow was perfect. It is not one of my favourites but I'm happy with it.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-6615547840727811192014-12-07T21:53:00.000-08:002014-12-07T21:55:24.123-08:00Hexie 22 - a Frosty Winter blockI enjoyed working on this hexie although I struggled when choosing a colour for the edging. turquoise and aqua were awful, mustard and cream killed it, red was just plain revolting so in the end I settled for this pink which matches the colour of the little girl's cheeks. I bought a bag of hundreds, maybe thousands of those snowflake sequins from China and never knew how to use them until now - they really went well with the frosty, icy theme of this block as they catch the light beautifully. In the end, I am happy with the block, pink binding and all.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-76324063739258105802014-12-05T21:34:00.002-08:002014-12-05T21:34:59.893-08:00Two New Hexies - Numbers 20 and 21Hexie number 20 is the Thanksgiving one with an old Thanksgiving postcard as the centrepiece. I enjoyed working on this one because of the colours - in Australia and England, we would call this my "Harvest Festival" hexie.<br />
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Hexie number 21 is a pretty, feminine Summery one which was also fun to do and very relaxing. At last I found a home for that huge sequined and beaded butterfly which seems to shimmer in gold and mauve.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-89973382516605778552014-12-05T14:45:00.001-08:002014-12-05T14:45:14.180-08:00Juliet's Lolly-pink Fairy DressTwo down, one to go........this is the pink fairy dress that I've just finished for my granddaughter Juliet. I hope she didn't mean pastel baby pink because I went for the brightest pink that I could find. The wings are multi-coloured but contain the same bright pink and her tiara and wand are silver with pink plastic "jewels". She is a 4 1/2 year old blond bombshell - she'll love it.<br />
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I took photos of the dress in two different lights because I was trying to catch the sparkle of those spots on the tule skirt which didn't happen. The dress has four skirts - a soft white tule skirt so the stiff net skirts don't scratch her legs, two stiff pink net skirts and a hot pink with sparkles skirt over the top.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-92166702206318903652014-11-30T03:44:00.002-08:002014-11-30T03:44:44.927-08:00Emilia's Christmas Fairy Dress<br />
This is the first of three fairy/princess dresses that I am making for Christmas presents. This one is for my great-niece, Emilia who is nearly five. The velvet bodice is a pretty royal blue, not the dark Navy blue that the photo shows. Also there is a gold swirling pattern all over the velvet in tiny gold dots. With this dress will go blue wings, silver tiara with blue "jewels" and a silver wand with a blue butterfly on the top.<br />
Next will be a similar dress for my granddaughter Juliet only in pink. Juliet told me that she wanted yellow so I bought yellow tule, sparkly fabric and lace and then she told me "but I like PINK!" Pink? You told me yellow! "No I didn't, 'cos I like pink!!" Juliet is 4 1/2 so she will get pink. The yellow can be put away for next Christmas for my nephew's twin daughters who will be two. Finally, another granddaughter Alyssa will be six in January - she considers herself a big girl now so she would rather have a floor-length Princess dress.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-58581801868467649262014-11-07T19:56:00.000-08:002014-11-08T01:04:43.586-08:00Australian Block for CQI retreatI have finally finished the block which represents Australia using the colours of the national flag plus the green and yellow/gold which are our sporting colours. The block will now go to USA where it will be stitched together with blocks representing the flags of every country that members of the Crazy Quilting International group belong. I think I've covered most things Oz - Kangaroo, Platypus, map of Australia, Gum blossoms, Wattle, Grass trees, the Sydney Opera House, Koalas, the flag, a lizard within an aboriginal pattern and Gum leaves. Ooh, I almost forgot - and the famous star formation of The Southern Cross in sequin stars. I found that blue material with the rather subdued pale blue stars and thought that the Southern Cross would really stand out on that background. Hope it does the trick.<br />
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Grrrr! I've just noticed that in the photo, there is a tiny piece of white cotton which has strayed onto the blue velvet patch on the left hand side and a little smidgin of yellow thread on the red patch below it and there is nothing I can do about it now because the block is all packed up in the post bag ready to post to Cathy Kizerian on Monday....... Cathy, if those cotton threads are still there, remove them for me please xxx<br /><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-12789842450185056462014-09-30T00:21:00.000-07:002014-09-30T00:21:04.461-07:00Victorian Pink Jewellery BoxLast week I was at an Antiques and Collectables Fair where I met a lovely lady named Janet. I showed her a crazy quilted top I was sewing for a wooden trinket box. I was using sepia colours but Janet said she would buy the box if I could sew the top in "Victorian Pinks" because her bedroom - her whole house - is very "oldy-worldy". Today I delivered the box to her and she was really happy with it, especially as I had used some vintage tatting and some tiny antique pearl beads. Here is the box with the crazy quilted insert on top.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-51330897634561638212014-09-14T20:36:00.000-07:002014-09-14T20:36:44.006-07:00Hexie circle finished..........three more to goHere is the first circle of nineteen circles completed and laid out on the bed on which the finished quilt will go. I will definitely need four circles plus extra hexies to fill in the gaps to make the quilt rectangle shaped.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-46898363651577146872014-09-14T02:19:00.002-07:002014-09-14T02:19:25.019-07:00Hexagon 19 BluebirdsHere is the final hexie in the first group of nineteen. I wasn't sure how this one would turn out after the vibrant Peacock but in the end I am happy with the end result. Now I can join all of these hexies together to form the first circle.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-44590899653744899682014-09-09T01:47:00.001-07:002014-09-09T21:43:36.653-07:00Hexagon 18 - PeacockThis has got to be the most challenging hexie so far. The colours were not my usual ones and I have to admit to being waaay out of my comfort zone. I feel as if the hexie and I were in a continual battle of wills and inverably, the hexie won!! There was loads of stitching, unpicking, more stitching, more unpicking etc however I am really happy with the end result and I think the hexie is happy too!!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The two pieces on the sides of the peacock were cut from a piece of patchworking fabric called "Arabian Nights" and they set the colour scheme for the block. The glass peacock button was from Thearica Burroughs as part of my prize for the "Message in a Bottle" challenge and it seemed to cry out for a bead frenzy.....again, not my usual style. </td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-83298669025348025552014-09-02T03:00:00.000-07:002014-09-02T06:27:40.053-07:00Hexies 16 and17 CompletedI spent the day with my husband at Royal Perth Hospital while he went through the procedure of being injected with dye and then hanging around for over three hours until he could have the bone scan. Needless to say I took these two hexagons with me to stitch the black Feather Stitching around the edges.<br />
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Here is Hexie number Sixteen which shows a little girl with her grandfather in his garden. The original painting is called "In Grandpa's Garden" so the hexie really suited lots of flowers and gardening charms like the fountain, watering can, humming bird and Ladybird (Australia) Ladybug (USA).<br />
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Hexie Seventeen turned out to be one of my favourites - amazing how it developed a happy Spring personality (I won't say Summer because the little girl feeding the Swans is wearing a Winter dress). Several people contributed to this hexie - I bought the berry lace motif from Cathy Kizerian, I won the Dragonfly button from Thearica Burrough's with her "Message in a Bottle challenge" and the two white Swan earrings were given to me by a friend in a box of junk jewellery.<br />
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The patch of very, very old blue Satin at the bottom stretched with the heat of the iron. At first I was going to Kantha quilt it flat but then I decided that I rather liked the puffy, watery look so I left it.<br />
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The blanks for hexies 18 and 19 have been stitched so now I will have the fun of embellishing them both and that will complete a second circle of hexies around the central hexie. ie. one in the middle, six around that and then twelve around those. I'll take a photo of them all sewn together. The next circle after that will need twenty four hexies to complete - could take some time, lol.<br />
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Blah!!! The close-up photo of hexie 17 shows that I will have to revamp the sequin flowers along the edge behind the two swan earrings. I attached the large flower sequins (which are actually irridescent greeny-red, not that dark red colour) then the tiny apricot coloured sequin centres with a 3-wrap Colonial Knot. The iron has flattened the Colonial Knot and one sequin centre has popped off and a whole flower above the higher of the two swans has popped off leaving just the knot. OK, seed beads will do the trick. While I'm at it, I will also Kantha quilt the water.......sigh, and I thought I'd finished!! So here is the new version. Hexie Seventeen mark 2.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-86625019956753660772014-08-23T02:31:00.003-07:002014-08-23T02:31:53.662-07:00Hexagon 15 and Dyed lace piecesI have finished Hexie 15 which is a garden themed one centered around an image of a lady in a yellow dress holding a rose. The coral pink fabric is vintage from around 1910 so I hope it stands up to the test of time. Also the same coloured Kiko's flowers are worked in Heminway Sons pure silk embroidery thread dating from 1850s......again I hope that the threads can take it but it was the perfect colour to match the vintage fabric.<br />
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Then I had a play with some bottles of dyes which are probably about eight years old and although the colours are not quite as bright as they were in the beginning, they worked well for crazy quilting motifs. I spent a couple of hours sitting under the patio in the sunshine totally lost in playing and enjoying myself. When I finished with the motifs, I tried dyeing some white satin ribbon roses and while they probably look more natural than solid colours, they didn't turn out quite how I expected them to. However I will use them on cq blocks where hopefully they will blend in with the surrounding leaves.</div>
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These two photos feature some of the same motifs. In the photo on the right the heart motif is shown in the original dyed colour-way and there is also a gorgeous bunch of leaves and berries which are not included in the photo on the left. In the photo on the left, the heart motif has been redyed in the same colours to make it darker and therefore, brighter and there is also a medallion motif on the left which is not in the right hand photo and I've included some of the dyed Roses. If the sun is shining tomorrow, I will have another playing session.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-90820831696283211382014-08-12T04:19:00.000-07:002014-08-12T04:19:11.840-07:00Hexie 14. Scotty Dog and SquirrelThis block is a bit of a button frenzy. Flower buttons, heart buttons, a very vintage Scotty Dog button and a porcelain Bird House button. It is a very bright block mainly because I worked with the colours in the tartan, primarily red, blue and yellow. This block took a lot longer to do that the previous ones because I have been traipsing every day by train to visit my husband in hospital and I have also been working on my nephew's twin daughters crocheted boleros. Anyway, here is my very happy Scotty dog puppy and squirrel block which is in memory of my childhood pet Scotty dog, Mackie. Mackie was our family pet and looked just like this puppy once although we had him until he was sixteen. Whilst Mum fed him and looked after him, he was our Dad's little mate and my sister and I used to argue about whose bed Mackie would sleep on each night. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-23132370173429021712014-08-02T02:10:00.000-07:002014-08-02T08:00:36.456-07:00Hexie Thirteen - The PondHere is Hexie Thirteen - the scene shows a water nymph either looking at his/her reflection in the pond water or maybe talking the to fish?? I haven't decided which yet. I love the colours in this image, mostly turquoise and apricots with a dash of mauve water-lily and a bright Kingfisher looking for a meal - maybe that Dragonfly which is flying straight for it's beak. (Blame DH's sick humour for that one!) I think the colours in this block are so cool and delicate. I can't work out why that top edge is not straight, each of the sides measure exactly the same and yet it doesn't look it - also it fits exactly into the others so I shall put it down to another scanner quirky! Next block is entirely different.....The Scotty Dog and Squirrel cutie.<br />
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This block is one of my very favourites because of the colours.......sort of misty like the reflections in a still pond (waxing lyrical here). I've been all afternoon at the hospital visiting DH who is in for a few days with an abscess in his jaw bone......very painful but hopefully intravenous antibiotics will do the trick and surgery won't be needed. Fingers crossed!<br />
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Ahhh! Sometimes photos are better than the real thing for spotting mistakes! I never got back to finishing the Lazy Daisy leaves on the sparkly copper coloured Herringbone stitches under the the four blue glass flowers........Will do that immediately before I forget........... also that purple sequin flower is not purple, it is an irridescent pearly mauve, very pale. The scanner once again has made it change colour. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-37884483018611755082014-07-27T18:23:00.003-07:002014-07-28T00:15:05.092-07:00Hexie TwelveHere is the pre-Christmas hexie. There are no Christmas trees or ornaments or presents on this block because the children in the image are gathering Holly to decorate their home. Therefore it is all about the joy of preparing for Christmas. It is all about Holly and Snow and Garlands and Candles. This was a fun block to work on and a fun time to escape back to - not that we decorated our homes in Australia with any of the above - for us it was all about keeping cool in the Summer heat, barbecues and salads and going to the beach - with artificial holly and fake snow thrown in just to make it look like an authentic Northern Hemisphere Christmas.<br />
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For the backing and binding colour for this block, I tried both red and green and both of them looked terrible, I tried cream and it was too stark so in the end, I settled for this gold colour which is warm and does pick up the colours in the gold braid and the patch on the side with JOY in the centre. <br />
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It is not until I see the photos that I can see areas that need tweaking, for instance that top left-hand mitre is way pointier that the rest and needs to be reduced down to size. In the flesh, it is not nearly so noticable but it cannot stay that way.......Mrs Perfect has spoken!!!!<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932261668124508250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146307739748429482.post-27394222754437358502014-07-24T05:51:00.002-07:002014-07-24T05:51:42.404-07:00Hexie 11 finished - PoppiesHere is my eleventh hexagon block which is based upon an image of a bunch of Poppies, Daisies and little mauve flowers. This block was a challenge in that it only had five colours - orange, green, mauve, yellow and dark brown (plus a few white daisy petals). The purple sequin flowers are paler than they appear in the photo - blame the scanner again.......<br />
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