Monday, October 25, 2010

Back in the studio

It took me a couple of days to actually get in the studio to do some work after our trip, but I'm now working on two things. I finally started quilting the big leaf quilt. Slow progress but at least it's getting done.



I take breaks from machine stitching and do hand stitching. I've started stitching on some of the indigo pieces I dyed last spring. This is a small piece (13" x 15"), put together from the scraps of a larger piece. The larger piece is 18" x 45" and I haven't started stitching it yet.



For someone that has always machine quilted, I'm continually surprised by how much I love hand stitching these pieces.
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3 comments:

  1. LauraOctober 29, 2010 at 2:25 PM

    I just had to tell you how much I love your shibori pieces--the colors are beautiful, and the lines are so crisp! I've recently started experimenting with the pole wrapping, but mine aren't coming out anything like yours.

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  2. Jeanne Raffer BeckDecember 9, 2010 at 7:58 AM

    Linda, I don't know if you are an SDA member, but Vicki Jensen from Pro Chem is teaching a shibori class at SDA's conference in June 2011 in Minneapolis using a new type of indigo dye that looks very promising as far as its parallels to the natural indigo dyeing process. Check out the class at the SDA website, www.surfacedesign.org

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  3. Linda MDecember 9, 2010 at 8:49 AM

    Thanks for the info Jeanne, I am an SDA member and but so far haven't figured out how to fit in the conference, I have grand daughters graduating that month.

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