Woven Background Complete

This is rough trimmed to 32x40, a comfortable 4x5 ratio.
Now I have to play with ideas.

Like this one........

Make it bigger?....... or cut it down.....

Musings on finishing the Woven Background

Fortunately I have months before this needs to be finished.
I'm sure I'll put it aside many times till I hit up on the one I like the most.

Tried some paper cut outs this morning.
Other than the fact the colours of the construction paper are almost pastel........interesting.

New Quilt for a New Room Colour

Paris Memories

A friend took her 9 yr old grand daughter to Paris France . (Sounds like one of those movies I always wanted to be in.) This is her memory Quilt
I finished her quilt with a light, simple 'ribbon' meander in pink and lime green.

The colours really pop on the black.

Naomi's Boat is a Winner

The results are in and our group entry took the Award of Excellence in a Group Quilt
We leave for the CQA Show in Ottawa momentarily.
Going to have fun spending the prize money!!!!












And here's the motley crew. Unfortunately one of the gang couldn't travel with us. We'll celebrate again when we're back on home turf.

Weaving - Background Concerns

My intent is this weaving exercise is the background.
I will admit I've been waffling a bit wondering if it was too busy and should in fact BE the piece.

As it's almost to size I ran it through a drawing programme and doodled over the background.
The result in my mind is that it will work and I can stop fretting.

 Cropped to get ride of most of the 'fringe' it still looks very busy.

But a scribble of leaves, branches and birch boles gives it a very different feel. I'm happy. I know I'll sleep better.

Weaving - 4 more inches

Coffee, Walk, gardening, weave.
Not a bad routine in June.

But I may leave it here for a few days.
Going on a road trip with the girls to Ottawa where our composite piece is hanging in the CQA Show.

I may never be the same..........
LOL
Wouldn't miss this for the world.

Weaving - Another Day

Coffeed... I walked my route as the sun was coming over the houses. Watered and trimmed the hanging baskets, cleaned and refilled the birdbath, cleaned and refilled the hummingbird feeders.
Finished a third cup of coffee, chatted with my sister, chased hubby out to the store......

and went to weave.
I've started introducing a few new colours, different materials. The top will have a different look, but hopefully the same feel.
Sitting at 40"x 18"
A ratio of 8x5 is an ideal shape.
That just a few more inches....7+ ?

Weaving - Half Way!

Started the day walking, then weeding in the garden.

Depending on what ratio I'm end up with (LxW)..... you could say I'm over half done.  

Weaving - Day - Whatever

 About half way? That depends how long I can keep this up. I do have a size in mind.

I did learn a hard lesson.
I am creating this over a layer of fusible web. I was able to slide my pizza peal under the stabilizer and iron to begin the process of making it permanent.
Then I decide to fully fuse from the backside.

As I unpinned and proceeded to flip onto it's face, the edges gave way.
It really hadn't fused anywhere. There was just too much material for the heat to get through.
I was able to salvage the whole thing but it took me several hours to re weave the edges from the backside.
Lesson learned.

(It's still pretty straight too.)

Weaving - Day 4

Another dull morning threatening rain.
So worked across the rest of the board, and finished around 3.
Then I went out and ripped out the 'for get-me-not'. It was almost done and had reached the point where it was smothering the remainder.

Tomorrow I'll start another pass. This was certainly slower than the first day but I think that's because I was piecing colour on almost every row.
That involved planning for an 'under' location to pin and glue the next colour.

The picture has a 'wrong' feel to it, but that's because I photographed it upside down to the move the strips out of the way.

Weaving - Day 3

It was so cold and windy I stayed inside.....and worked on the background piece.

Weaving a Background Updated

I'm about ready to start. I cut up and pressed a number of Fat Quarters and Fat Eights as well as a lot of scraps. This took the equivalent of about 2 days.

If I need more........

Day 2?

This is going to take a long time. As it's hard on my neck and back AND the weather is improving I'll want to get outside with other things and work at this sporadically. This is what one day, about 3 hours produced, about 6 inches sq.

My posting daily probably won't show a lot of change, so..........when this is finished I'll re post on this theme.