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In process pic…new spirit girl soon to take her first breath.
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Entries Tagged as 'In My Studio'
Today…
i am ensconced in the studio
creating :: purging
finishing :: listening
dancing :: loving
RBS Update
hello spring!
RBS update…on thursday i’ll be doing a class on my newest pattern…the ‘chelsea vintage mini‘…over at donna downey studios.
if you haven’t signed up yet….what you waiting for??? come hang out and have a night just for you, creating and having fun with some new peeps……see you then!
also, just made a new video of what i’m working on in my studio lately. it includes an update on items i’m adding to my etsy shop this week….including some new items.
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toodles all,
Unearthing Treasures
In cleaning out the closet in my studio I unearthed (and I don’t use that term lightly) a large quilt I made when we first moved back to North Carolina from our short stint in New Jersey.
We were living in a temporary apartment, our “stuff” had not been delivered yet (boy did that end up being a 4 month nightmare) and I NEEDED to get my hands into something creative.
So hubby convinced me to go buy a cheapy sewing machine. It was a good decision cause I could occupy my mind while waiting for the contents of our household to arrive.
I located the closest fabric store, stocked up on some fabrics, set up my space and sat down to sew. It was a tight squeeze….five us us in a 2 bedroom apartment…(Yikes!) but everyone was good about me taking up some space to calm down and stitch to my heart’s content.
I didn’t have a plan in mind so just kept sewing. Using 3 primary colours I strip pieced, cut into triangles then pieced into squares. I added a large 9″ black border but don’t have a clue why. Looks a lot like stained glass huh?
So anyway, the other day while cleaning out, I happened upon this quilt that hadn’t seen the light of day since 2004!! In the mindset to purge as much as I can as I clear out my studio, I immediately put it in the give-away pile.
But later I had a rethink. The quilt I made for our couch in our family room, oh sooooo long ago, is falling apart as a write this, so instead I’ll have this found treasure quilted and will drape it over the back of the couch.
Hopefully the things I do give/throw away I won’t find I need at a later date but …oh well! It’s now been handed over to my favorite long armer…Judy Whitehead of Goneaway Quilter. Judy is such a prolific long armer. I don’t tell what to quilt, she just instinctly knows what my quilts need and gets on with it.
Can’t wait to see what she’s done, especially on that large border. Then it’s on to the binding (not my favorite quilting activity by far) and a new colourful quilt ready to wrap around someone, will be finished.
Nice!
Marching Forward and Purging
I decided, after writing yesterday’s post, that I need to get back into the swing of things so I finished building the 2nd shelf for my closet and got into the purge mood.
I used to be a wanna-be hoarder but NO MORE! Out goes these taking-up-precious-space items….to others who want to have them or straight in the garbage! So there!
painted metal shelf
Some of the things that were in that closet were so old they’d become fossilized. I mean really….paints from 1995….so 20th century don’t you think? Shook the bottles and nothing moved. Okay….so these things REALLY had to go.
Back in my other life I had clientele I sewed clothes for – no more (thank goodness) so those items needed to be banished forever! I still have decorator and upholstery fabric hanging around (from when I was a home designer) and will keep most of those for mixed media art or for the backs of some quilts.
Okay……….now I’m feeling much better, the purge is done…for now at least….and I can see the floor of my studio again. I think I need to treat myself, so some DSP and flour resist is on the schedule for this afternoon.
In the meantime…enjoy how Spring is showing itself around my house…
Toodles,
