A Double Take

This afternoon, whilst procrastinating from ‘getting the house back
in order now that the builders have gone’, I was browsing through the
latest issue of Art Almanac and happened upon this.

 

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Work Gets in the Way

I am going away for work.  Will be back on Wednesday or Thursday night.

Smell ya later 🙂 

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Quilted and Cut

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Seeing

This morning I saw a brown dog running along the road with his mouth stretched around a large, brilliantly coloured, dead parrot.  The vivid green and flash of red feathers on the bird and the posessive, shifty look on the dog’s face was the most beautiful thing I saw all day.

And a very strange day it has been.  Starting with last night.

Last night we could not walk on the floors in our kitchen and living room because the new tiles had been layed.  So we took the opportunity to take up an invitation to go to the local fake irish pub for dinner.   And a very pleasant evening it was.  My steak was done perfectly (on the rare side of medium rare), chardonnay was my social lubricant and there was a bloke who looked just like Joaquin Phoenix up on the little stage playing guitar and singing.

At my bed time, notionally 10 o’Clock, some bright spark suggested a tequila slammer night cap…. apparently we did five rounds.  I am pleased to report that the bright spark felt just a crappy as I did today.

I am very juvenile and irresponsible.  I wasn’t fit to drive to work this morning so I didn’t get in til 11am, then I had to explain to my boss why I was leaving at noon (6 visits to the loo in one hour might give you a hint), and assure him that I would be back at 3pm to present my enormous project to senior management.

3 hours later I was fit to be seen… at least I think I was… since presently we do not have any mirrors in the house.  I made it to my mega meeting and managed to get my project through.  I could say that I ‘will never drink again!’  but we both know it would be a lie.  Bloody hell, that tequila was good.

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Fusible Web – Oh How I Love Thee

My friend Monica emailed me today and asked how I get my images onto fabric, so I thought I’d provide a little info here for those who have never used or heard of fusible web.

Fusible web is an iron on glue which can be used to stick pieces of fabric together,  it is flexible and has a strong enough bond to keep most bits in place until the piece is quilted.  It comes attached to a backing sheet which is very similar to baking paper.

These grass inspired pieces are actually reverse appliqued.  This means
that the top fabric is cut away to reveal the fabric underneath.  The
Dredger, on the other hand, was appliqued so all the bits were cut out
then arranged onto the background fabric.  For this piece I decided to
go this way because I didn’t want to be handling long wisps of fabric
which can get out of shape easily (often being cut on the bias).  

Once everything is cut, I peel the backing paper off.  Then I spent a lot of time  (like an hour even for this small piece) arranging the top fabric so all the design is positioned correctly.  This is very important for these pieces where there are strong lines crossing and a combination of postitive and negative bits.  I think I was scooting bits of fabric by a fraction of a millimetre in the end.

When I am happy, I set the iron to cotton, turn the steam off then lightly press the iron down onto the fabric so as not to disturb the pieces.  Once everything is stuck I then give it a few shots of steam 🙂

This is Side B for the handbag.

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Grass

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I made something!

Look!

 

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Some Content!

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Idea Rich – Skill Poor

 

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Babushka Boxes

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