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Not a lot of progress on the project this week as I have a fairly obnoxious cold, and what I did get done was more of the same that I talked about last week. I did take a wonderful field trip to the Colby College Museum of Art to see the collections and hear Leonard […]

I’ve been trying to figure out how to sew the squares together. With the quilts I’ve done to date I’ve sewn the pieces together on a pellon (interfacing) backing and then lined the squares up, overlapped the pellon backing and sewn the squares together. I’ve used heavy black thread with a zigzag overstitching technique and […]

Before starting in on the quilting of the other squares I laid all of them out in sequence to see how they would look all lined up: This was the most complicated printing job that I’ve undertaken to date. I used the cold composition techniques that I learned in the workshop that I took earlier […]

And there is more than one way to do trapunto quilting.   In the hand-quilting method you hand-sew a piece of cloth (generally muslin) onto the back of the quilt face, following the pattern of the trapunto quilting you wish to achieve, leaving a small opening. You then stuff cotton or wool quilt batting (the kind […]

I’ve been out of town this week seeing The Legendary Pink Dots in concert in western Mass with my husband (hence the late post) so no artwork of my own to post about this week – but plenty of other’s art to talk about. We had a wonderful few days all around. Spent some time […]