Category Archives: Curvie Cuts

Curvie Cuts, Jubilee

Thursday Nov 15, 2012 Textures

Hello Friends,

I hope the weather has been treating you well.  It is crisp and cold here today but I still enjoyed my walk in the sun shine.  When I was taking my photos for this post I noticed that my Christmas  Cactus is blooming already.  Such a nice flash of color for the eye.

In the Quilt Exploratoin  Design Group we are working on composition.  This mouth the emphasis is Texture- one of my favorite interests.   It goes hand in hand with color most of the time in my eyes.    I this emphasis has made me more aware of the textures around me than normal.  I took  30 photos  of textures while I was in Indiana last week.  I arrived home on Monday and  and now look forward to using the images in some future work.  I am busy getting ready for the one and only craft fair that I participated in now.  It is only 15 days off so I am pushing myself to finish off some little works.   The  small 5″ X 7″ pieces need  that final visual check before  I  matt them.  I will post a few next week.

Jubilee
20″ X 22″

Progress Report:  Jubilee  I really enjoyed working on this quilt.  I am having a lot of fun exploring the use of curved lines in my work.  That seems to add a bit of fun to what I am doing. I though I had finished it when I took the work to the Quilt Diva’s meeting last Tue evening, but the gals pushed me to do some changes as far as the technical aspects of the work.  This had mostly to do with the flatness of the edges.  After their instructions I took out my old work and re did the facings.  It is much improved with the seam of the top and the facing just at the edge as apposed to the turn over of the top to the back as I had it before.  I enjoyed creating  quilting  to extend the curves of the piecing  too.   This quilt also got away from me as far as size is concerned.  I intended for it to be a bit narrower- but liked the look at this width that I kept it that way.   I still have lots of the wiggly units remaining and  I intend to keep playing with different color combinations  using them. 

Exploration 3
 This is an example of the further use of the curved inserts.  I showed this work last week in the piecing stages.   The orange and apple green print around the edge is the backing fabric.  I really enjoy how the colors of the big units can totally change the feel of the work.    I am quilting it now.  I think I will keep the irregular bottom edge in some fashion.   I am anxious to create a new one in this series as well.

Until next time- Keep Creating

Hugs

Carol

Curvie Cuts, Explorations 3, Scrap Happy Quilts

Thur November 8, Winter Cold

Hello Friends,

Sandy did not hit this part of the country- but the cold sure did.  We went form fall to instant winter.  It snowed on Tue- not a lot just enough to make me glad I had pulled out the hats, mufflers, and mittens over the week end.   I worked away on a quilt to ship to the shore for the

Scarp Happy
Queen size

relief program the quilt group organized.   I have been working away on this scarp happy quilt fora while and now I am very happy that I have been.  I only had to finish the binding and now it is ready to ship.  I always have one of these types of quilts in some form of assembly- it is my way of getting started some times. It is also  a way to use – by cutting up-my mistakes and they do not become just trash.  I machine assemble them and they are totally machine washable and dry able.   It is just about time to start putting together pieces again so I will do a tutorial on the process by early Dec.

Progress Report:  Lauren’s Wedding Quilt  I am finally done with Laurn’s quilt.  I like

Laurn’s Wedding Quilt
90″ X 100″

the way it looks like a birds eye view of the mid west.  I also like the way the gold and brown centers sort of float up to the top of the work .   This quilt also made me realize I do not seem to be very confident in my use of green.  It was my mothers favorite color and I think I resisted it for that reason.   I will ship it off tomorrow.


   

 

 

  Composition in Purple  This quilt is one I have lots of mixed emotions about.  I like the

Composition in Purple
20″ X 28″

colors and I know that Laurn’s quilt did influence me into starting this one_ (especially the boarder fabric).  I also wanted to contrast the shinny silk with the matt finish of the cottons.   I am still playing with wiggeleing the seams.  It is fun but I do not have the control I really want with this process.   

New Exploration 3
This new top is really into the wiggle stuff that I got from Marty last mouth.  I pictured two others in this series last week.  I am really enjoying inserting the little units into the composition.  I have a lot more control of the curves and movement of seam lines with this process.  The other two in this series are nearing completion , but not done so I am holding them all to show together.  I am enjoying this process so much- that there may be even more.

I hope you are all snug and comfortable.

Keep Creating

Hugs

Carol

 

Bird Goddesses, Curvie Cuts, Goddess Series, Lauren'd Wedding quilt, Wedding quilts

Oct 18, 2012 For the Birds

Hello,

It is really starting to feel like fall here in  upstate central New York.  It has been cool in the early mornings and evenings and worm during the middle of the day.  I spent time today out of doors stacking wood for the fire place.  I am only about half done, but I had to stop as I had an appointment.  Hopefully I will finish the job tomorrow if it is at all as beautiful as today was.  Another sure sign of the approach of winter around here is the reappearance of different birds at the feeder.  I still see our constant Cardinal friends, but this morning I also saw two Blue Jays.   I do not think I was aware how very big they are as compared to many birds. I know they have big voices and their bright blue makes them easy to spot, I just was unaware of how size was also a part of that until I saw them up close.  I do not think they will be around long I do not recall seeing Jays in the winter in the past.  But I will keep my eyes open for them.

Mary’ Wedding Quilt
Queen sized

 Progress Report: Mary’s Wedding Quilt  

This commission is finally complete.  The cream is from Mary’s mothers wedding dress and was the starting place for this work.   The center block is the collar of the dress and the buttons that are in the middle ran down the front of the dress.  I added lace  to all four of the rows of  wedding dress sashing that surround the center.  The double row of lace  on the sixth row from the center has antique lace from my grandmothers collection as a part of it too.

I am very pleased with how the final quilt looks and I hope the bride feels the same.

Purple Marble
14″ X 21″

Purple Marble 

I have enjoyed working on this quilt as it has all come together sense I came home from my visit to Marty.  I was so very excited and full of ideas that I could not seem to get started on anything.  Over choice, I guess.  So I dropped back and went for a pile of fabric I had selected as “working together” and did  a work that was in my usual vain.

  doing that work on something I was fimilar with made it  easier to start a new idea.  I used a variegated  thread to quilt this work too .

Lauren’s Wedding Quilt Blocks

The blocks are now ready for assembly.  This is one of the ideas that I got from my visit with Marty.   I cut the original block ( blow)so the center was 2″x4″.  ( I did not take any photos of this step  you can see what it looked like before I made the second cut)  I then reassembled the squares and made the same cut on the new aliment. Again I put the squares back together creating the blocks you see.  I tried to make each block unique with only the two cuts.  The fun of the layout for final assembly now begins.

Bird Goddesses

This quilt is made from some of the drawings I did with Susan before I went away.  I know I have a show at Sparky Town for January and February and the curator wants goddess quilts for that show.  I already have several, but will take this opportunity to create a few more in the same area. This close up shows one of the smaller drawings.   It is only about two inches tall and just about life sized.

I hope you are enjoying the wonders of fall and enjoying every second. Until next time.

Keep Creating

Carol