Finally, my challenge is finished. I used the challenge fabric after overpainting it with the Pebeo Setacolor fabric paints. I pieced my first strips with wavey seams to get a flowing feeling. I made several units and then played with their placement in the quilt over several days. I made a few more units with diferent fabrics and played some more. I began to get the feeling of a forest or trees from the piece. It was interesting and frightening adding the narrow strips and breaking up 2 of the pieced units. They were not easy to match upon each side of the intersecting strip, but it ended up OK. I quilted it with curving lines, shrubs, trees and leaves to enhance the 'tree' effect I was still feeling from it.

All in all, I like the quilt, and I think I will do another using the techniques I learned when things slow down a bit. I am a longarm quilter, and it seems whenever I decide to take time for a project just for me, things get really busy. That is my excuse for barely finishing before the deadline. Thanks to Karen Musgrave for putting out the challenge and thanks to Rayna Gillman for an inspiring book.

Not quite done yet.

I have been working on my challenge quilt started by Karen Musgrave, based on Rayna Gillman's book, Create your own Freeform Quilts. I am in the final stages of the quilting, and then the binding or facing should go quickly. I think I will meet the deadline, and will post pictures as soon as possible.

I decided to use Setacolor fabric paints to change the colours in some parts of the challenge fabric. The white background would not have worked with the fabrics I wanted to use. Meanwhile, I have been cutting, sewing and working on my design wall to put something together. I have made progress, having made some units that still need to be connected with other units. I hope to post another picture soon.

Quilt Challenge

I have received the book by Rayna Gillman and the fabric from Karen that must be used in the quilt. I am thinking things over, and trying to get ideas for the quilt. I think I may use dye or fabric paints to alter the fabric somewhat, but I haven't decided what colours I will use. More later.

New Challenge

When I went to create a Blog, I found this one that I had set up in 2008 and never used. I had forgotten all about it.
I have joined Karen Musgrave’s challenge that was posted on the QuiltArt list, and thought it may be useful to try to figure out how to use my Blog to share information. Karen has sent a piece of fabric that we must use to create a quilt based on Rayna Gillman’s new book, ‘Create Your Own Free-Form Quilts’. The fabric and the book have not arrived yet, but I am anxious to see them and get started.

I'm trying this on for size. I am not one to talk a lot, or have much to say, but this looks like a handy way to post stuff that I need to get out there occasionally.