This week I took a break from the sewing, and decided I needed to get some class instructions written before our youngest child finishes school for the year on Friday! He is a darling boy, but you need eyes in the back of your head when he is at home, so digitising a complex whole cloth quilt design is not something to be contemplated! I have enjoyed sitting with the radio on working at the kitchen table, until I realised that I had shut down my computer last night without saving my design. Thankfully the student notes are fine, but I've had to re-create a fair hunk of the quilt today. It isn't as bad as it seems, because the design is really lovely and I'm enjoying working on it.
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| This is the line drawing of the whole cloth quilt design. |
I've borrowed inspiration from a couple of sources for this quilt. I have started by using Ricky Tims' Rhapsody design technique, and will use Sherry Rogers-Hamilton's Inklique technique when I finally finish it and get it stitched! I'm planning on painting/inking it when it is done, with inspiration coming from this picture of Sherry's quilt ... I can hardly wait!
I've committed myself to teaching more classes next year than I have been able to mange for a couple of years now. After two years of suffering from pain, and being misdiagnosed (and then given horrid medication I didn't need) I feel like a caterpillar that has turned into a butterfly, leaving the ugly chrysalis behind. I developed Fibromyalgia somewhere along the way, and I am pleased to say that I am managing it well.
Years ago I taught some classes on colour, helping quilters to learn how to coordinate fabrics for a quilt. The classes were always booked out, because quilters really need to know this stuff.
As you know I have not been teaching myself as much as I used to, but I did find this excellent video to show you all how to coordinate your quilt!
Click here to view the video.
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