. A little bit of practice on the leaves with curled element this week....and extra curls added in. The little "tweets" are a thread sketching technique where you basically just are creating an outline drawing. Then you get to have fun and highlight and color with Prismacolor pencils.
On the second one I used the fold over backing for the binding---ugh. I don't like it, and won't be doing that again. But these are just snack mats for fun. Lesson learned!
I also worked a bit on some updated samples for the Crazy Quilting program I am doing for guild next month. I wanted to focus on and show a couple techniques for different embellishments. So I dug into the stack of journal quilt samples from last year and came up with a few that will be great. I'm so glad I did that journal challenge.....it was a great experience. To try a technique, and accept the results, both good and bad, and learn from it. And end up with a "library" of journals to use as inspiration for later. I do believe it will miss it this year.
Happy stitching.
On the second one I used the fold over backing for the binding---ugh. I don't like it, and won't be doing that again. But these are just snack mats for fun. Lesson learned!
I also worked a bit on some updated samples for the Crazy Quilting program I am doing for guild next month. I wanted to focus on and show a couple techniques for different embellishments. So I dug into the stack of journal quilt samples from last year and came up with a few that will be great. I'm so glad I did that journal challenge.....it was a great experience. To try a technique, and accept the results, both good and bad, and learn from it. And end up with a "library" of journals to use as inspiration for later. I do believe it will miss it this year.
Happy stitching.
5 comments:
Your leaves with the curl look really good! (I haven't even practiced the basic leaf yet). Look at you go!
Very nice.... love the birdies and the leaves!
You did a great job with the leaves & swirls. I'm just learning about that fold over binding (self binding technique) from some of the doll quilts that are coming in. One quilter sent me some easy directions for it. I plan to try it on my next doll quilt.
Cute snack mats! Love them. :o)
I really like the way you are using your FMQ to make these cute little mats. Great idea. The leaves and curls look. I really need to practice a lot more with my FMQ and this looks like a good way.
I love the end result with the snack mats.
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