Happy Salutes everyone.

So now summer really begins.  Like everyone else I am looking forward to lots of events!    The pleasant summer days pull me out of doors and off to do lots of other explorations.  There is graduation and weddings and plays to attend.   I have travel plans- to the far west of the US, to Pennsylvania, and to Indiana.  Then there is camp and art shows as well.  So I am going to take a summer recess and only post the first week of each mouth until Sept.   The school teacher in me see that as a time to restart.   There will be one other change.   Tomorrow I am meeting with my Computer Programmer and the Blog add will be changing.   Patty has graduated and she no longer needs to use the blog as a part of her educational material so I will be leaving her host and moving to one of my own.  That should make things easier and some what more understandable.   Her help has been invaluable to me and I will still need her assistance on occasion I am sure.  So enjoy your summer and get away from the computer a bit and enjoy the outside world.

Progress Report:   Circling Events

 

I finished several quilts this week and this is one.   I have really enjoyed these little explorations with pattern and and limited color.   The there are many textures in this one too, suede, metal , the glass beads and the pale rust fabric has a very distinctive weave that I like as well.      My idea was to make all of the finished work for sale and so I have included the price in the caption.

I have also been criticized for not making my photos bigger so I am slowly trying to expand the size of them  this week.  I would love feed back on this area.

  This detail shows the suede at the bottom.  The bead and the metal disk are setting on the woven textured fabric.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dandelion  This is my first attempt at enlarging the image for the blog.   I like this quilt as it makes me feel cheerful.   It is great to be posting it on the first day of summer too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purple Power  I had thought that I was finished with this piece a few week ago. But when I looked again I decided the  buttons did not work for me.  Because I had finished

the quilting I really could not remove them from the surface.  This presented a new problem….. after a bit of looking and reflecting- I decided to cover the buttons.  I tried several fabrics and settled on this high furry stuff that some one had kindly given me.  I think it gives the work a nice little kick.

 

 

 

This close up also shows the woven ribbon  that adds another texture to the surface of this work.

Zane’s Graduation  Quilt  I am making progress on both of the graduation pieces but this one shows the most growth this week.  I have now completed two of the three rows of the tee shirts.   The green and white tees will be in the middle so this shot is of the center and the right side rows.  Zane likes browns and muted colors so I have used those colors between the blocks.  They are very narrow as there are so many tee shirts and they are so big that keeping the sashing thin is necessary to keep the size of the quilt limited to college dorm bed sizes.   Many of these tee shirts also had lists of the casts on the backs and I intend to place them on the back of the quilt in the proper location to go with the show represented on the front.  I know this will be a challenge for me to keep the placement correct-but I think it will be well worth the effort.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Curve Cuts   I started this last week and realized  when I re read the post that  I did not explain the steps at all.  To cut a curve that will fit exactally one needs to cut the two pieces of fabric at the same time.   So place face up one piece on top of the other. The second one must also be face up.  Then using your rotorey cutter cut both pieces at the same time doing your curves.

The second shot shows the two fabrics slightly shifted so you can see how the four pieces will fit against each other.   The pinks are on the bottom and will fit with the exact opposite megenta.

 

 

  This shot shows the two pieces sewn together.  They still need to have further pressing- but at this point I am still adding sections as the left one shows.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This last shot is of the parts pinned in one configeration.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blue Blocks  Here are my newest Blue Blocks for the year.  The really nice thing about this project is it travels well so I will not fall behind while I am away with my summer activites.

 

I hope everyone has a grand summer and I will see you again  in Aug.  I will post the new  Blog Add here however.

Keep creating

Carol