VACATION TIME, SO NOT MUCH SEWING OR BLOG POSTING FOR THE NEXT 2 MONTHS.
STASH REPORT FOR JUNE 2009
I told you in my last report that someday I was going to knock the socks off you. Well be prepared to go sockless. This month I used – are you ready ---
7 AND 1/2 METERS!!!!
I’m down 4 and 1/2 meters from my opening balance, which now leaves me with a stash that is 294 and 1/2 meters.
I’d like to thank Shakespeare in the Park for being such a big quilt, and my dining room table which needed a new tablecloth.
Below is a pieced back I made for the humungous quilt’ Shakespeare in the Park. This puppy or should I say, hound, is a whooping 80” x 96”. In the photo below I have it on our double guest bed. See how it drapes on the floor at the foot of the bed! This is the first time I’ve made a pieced back and I like it; makes a more interesting quilt (at least in my opinion). PLUS, IT USES UP STASH – WHOOHOO.
Now for the BIG HOLE in my story; and I do mean HOLE in the literal sense. At one point I had my partially pieced back laid out on the floor. Combine this picture with one Stormy’s (my beloved cat) play techniques. She likes to run and slide into fabric piles, bunching up the fabric ahead of her. I bet you know where this is heading. So, Ms. Storm makes a run for it, and dives into the fabric, bunching it up as she slides to a stop. Then she attacks the folds as if it were Enemy Number 1. End result – see below!
Now, what am I going to do with this hole? I guess it’s going to be appliqué. Any suggestions for a design? I’m thinking, cat silhouette, paw print, or lightening bolt.
Post Note: After all this, she is still our beloved cat.
Ignorance is bliss, arrogance and pure stupidity. That’s how I feel about part of my review of ColoRotate (see here).
In my review I said “I don’t find it [the sphere] useful in what I use the program for; so it just kind of looms in the background. “
How wrong is that. The sphere is VERY useful, and by using the above picture, I’ll explain how. Note the color dots in the sphere itself. These 5 dots represent the colors extracted from the uploaded image. If the image is a piece of fabric, these dots would reveal the swatch as having -
- 3 shades of purple ranging from very light to medium,
- 1 medium shade of blue and
- a very light, almost neutral shade of yellow.
Note: Any dots falling in the bottom section of the sphere, indicate highly saturated colors.
Recap: The sphere lets you see the colors in your fabric swatch in terms of their saturation levels, ie from pastels to deep dark/rich colors.
Another great thing about the sphere is the Rotation feature. By using the surrounding buttons you can tilt the sphere in many different ways. This allows you to see more clearly where each particular color in your swatch lies on the color wheel. For example if you tilt the sphere so that you are viewing the wheel as if you were looking at it in a book, the pastel dot would show up as lying between the yellow and green colors, whereas the rest are either directly in the purple section or between purple and blue.
Feeling overwhelmed? Well you might by all my verbiage, but you’re doing yourself a disservice if you don’t give the sphere a try. As for me, well I’m hooked. Yesterday I wanted to match colors to a particular fabric and my interpretation was the fabric contained a hint of turquoise which I wanted to use. BTW, I had shown this fabric to the Markham Guild quilters earlier this year and they couldn’t see the turquoise. “Well”, thought I, “they’re all color blind!” Not so. They were right, as ColoRotate clearly showed “the turquoise” as a pale blue.
Final Verdict: Love this tool. Excellent for the color challenged quilter. DEFINITELY highly accelerates the color matching process.
St. Jacob’s Part 5 of 5 – the last in the series.
More of Joyce’s photos -
Light and Dark effect – nice.
Even though I don’t like making “stack and whacks”, I like the effect. This one is particularly interesting as there is a star in a star.
Sorry folks, I unintentionally got in the way here. I would have cut myself out, but then you wouldn’t be able to see much of this quilt, and it is a beauty.
I think this may be a “Disappearing Nine Patch”.
Most of these penguins are cut out and fused on. Just look at those icy blue fabrics – certainly gives the Arctic setting an arctic feel.
St. Jacob’s Part 4 of 5
Joyce’s photos.
This is very cute. You can almost “see” the 9 patches falling to the ground.
Blue and yellow green.
Rows of hatboxes. I used to make these – perhaps I’ll show a few of them someday.
St. Jacob’s Part 3 of 5
Following is a quilt both Fran and Joyce took photos off. (The difference in color in the last photo is a reflection of using a different camera.)
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