Time Out for........

Fruit Cake

After a bath in a good quantity of rum, this should see us through Christmas 2020 AND 2021. 

(Just gotta find room in the freezer.)

All those Flying Geese

With company coming for an extended stay and hubby's demand on my time.... he's (meaning me too) picked the hottest time of the year to process tomatoes. We work in the garage for the most part except the finishing and canning, so he can only tolerate the heat till around 11.

Dried tomatoes, canned whole Roma's and Tomato&Basil sauce...........

Certainly worth the effort.

But I did assemble the Green Quilt. I don't know when I'll be able to attach the other 96 Geese to the Blue and Brown one.

The next set of instructions arrive this Wednesday.............

Clue #4 ......in Green

 Once I got into the rhythm these went fast. Now I have to wait a week Wednesday for sewing instructions.

(You won't have noticed but I changed the background colour, the corner triangles to a lighter pattern.)

Clue # 4

Not much to see here.

Hmmmmmmmmm.... 24 fabrics,  4 flying geese each .......2 quilts ....... 192 Geese.

This will take awhile.

Yesterday I made Echinacea

I played with some pen&ink sketches. The first is a single line rendition. (found on Google) This may come in handy as a quilting motif....?

After completing the second, I started to use water soluble pencil crayons. I quickly discovered I hadn't used a permanent black ink pen for the original sketch. 😖

As I had to severely reduce the water I didn't get the wash that I had hoped for.

(After hubby told me I should have done the washes first..................I threw something............., but then he ordered a box set of black indelible pens for me.........and he bakes bread! 💖)

 After noon I started cutting a lino block. First tracing was misaligned.

Today I went directly for the fabric ink. 

The left is a tentative pass on paper. I figured I don't use enough ink. I adjusted that on the fabric scrap.

And then I couldn't let the paint go to waste, so I re printed two of my favourites. 

 

 

 

Revisiting Lino Printing

 I left off late last year knowing I would be back.

I still have some blanks but I decided to change and finish a tree I had started.

I had completed a narrow cut around the whole tree but I decided I wanted an outline so I redrew the edge and left a few mm wide line. Finishing this took the better part of a day. I only jabbed myself once. 😁

Using only the water soluble ink I played with a harder brayer/roller (which hadn't worked for me last year) and one colour. 

Not too bad.

Now what? Cut more linos...or print with what I have.

I need to work with the fabric paints before I start carving much more.

My loose linoleum pieces aren't very satisfactory either as the they curl with washing and age, but I'm not sure I want to spent $$ on the mounted lino, if I can find a way to attach the cuts to wood. 

(I DO have lots of dimension wood pieces in the garage....but that involves a hunt for the saw and probably a worried intervention by hubby who is King of the saw.......even though he can't cut a straight line anymore. I think it has more to do with age than eye site.)

We'll see.

Green - Part 3

It's amazing the difference a mono colour selection makes on a traditional pattern.

I still like it more than the Blue+

 

 

Blue and Brown - part 3

It was a long wait, or so it seemed, for the next set of instructions.

Lots of pieces and cutting. (I cut everything for the green quilt as well)

Assembly took a few days.

I like it more than I expected, especially those shots of  electric blue.

This is now up to 55"sq.