I’ll be demonstrating Free Motion quilting and embroidery at the NY Maker Faire September 17 & 18 (next weekend):
Maker Faire
New York Hall of Science
47-01 111th Street
Queens, NY 11368-2950
Come on down and say hello!
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This small project took a long time to finish, because it’s hot and my interest in sewing has dropped precipitously. I only touched it every few days, and then usually for less than an hour at a time. Anyway, it’s done now, and on my floor: Just like Bruno himself. Here’s the source photo, taken … [...] Are you a law student? Want to work on a project with me and QuestionCopyright.org? We need a legal intern to research the history of copyright suits in the quilting world. How common are copyright suits among quilters? How many cases settle? What sort of decisions emerge from those that go to court? How … [...] This is now hanging where Laxmi was. The photo below should give some sense of scale: It’s 71″ x 71″ – almost 6 feet by 6 feet! Wanna see work-in-progress documentary pix? Read on!I did the head first. It was free-motion quilted, in pieces, which I assembled and sewed together using a satin stitch – a technique … [...] Here’s what I’ve been working on the past couple weeks: Yep that’s “Laxmi” from Sita Sings the Blues. Cotton fabric, polyester batting, polyester thread. 52″ wide by 72″ high – twice as big as any of my 4 Elements panels. I might sew some shiny gold sequin things coming out of Her open hand to … [...] My latest quilt is Capital-A Art. Know why? It’s white on white Ladies and gentlemen, I unveil the fourth and final installment of my 4 Elements quilt series: Air/Nude! 77″ x 23″ (yielding a life-size figure), unbleached cotton muslin, cotton batting, polyester thread. She counts as “Air” in the series because … [...] I’ve mentioned quilter Leah Day here before, and will mention her again. Leah “e”-teaches me and countless others how to Free Motion Quilt via her online Free Motion Quilting Project. I wrote about her refreshingly open attitude and progressive business model on Techdirt a few months ago. But I’m posting today to bring your … [...] My obsessive desire to create sewn tapestries is butting up against the incredible amount of work required to do so. Most of that work is non-expressive; it is carrying out orders dictated by the design; it is execution; it is craft. I may be discovering, for myself, where the boundary between Art and Craft … [...] I just finished #3 in my 4 Elements quilt series. This tapestry is a lot more colorful and contrasty than the others. It uses that “trapplique” technique I posted about before – that piece was a study for this one. Doing a large piece entirely by trapplique-ing quilted elements may be overkill. It … [...] Oh how I love this combination of applique and trapunto. I wasn’t sure what to call it: double trapunto? Trapplique? It’s not a technique I’d seen before, but I’m sure others have done it because it’s obvious. Anyway, this technique is for me. This is actually a test for a larger piece I’m making for … [...] Today I viewed a small art quilt show. Many of the quilts were quite beautiful. Still, it took my friend and I less than half an hour to view everything, on two floors. We spent no more than a few minutes contemplating each one, lingering longest on the ones we liked most, less on … [...] I finally finished and hung tapestry #2 in my “4 Elements” series: Water. This one wasn’t nearly the joy to make that the first one, “Earth,” was. In fact it was so fraught with anxiety, errors, and frustrations, it inspired today’s Mimi & Eunice cartoon: I’m glad it’s done now. Here’s some of the insanity that … [...] I finally started the second in my series of “4 Elements” quilted tapestries: Water. Here’s the design: Now, I’ve been avoiding proper pattern-making. I just print the thing out on multiple sheets of 11×17 paper, which I tape together and trace onto more taped-together sheets of freezer paper. Then I cut those out with a … [...] Here’s a very small mini-quilt I made to inaugurate my new, larger, smooth-like-buttah sewing machine. It’s only 9 x 12″. Unlike the digital vector art I’m used to doing, the smaller the quilt, the less time it takes. It only took one day from start to finish. Here’s the same thing about 9 hours earlier: Granted, it … [...] w00t! I finished it! And bashed my finger with a hammer while affixing the hanging rod to the wall, so it’s painful to type. Other than that, no injuries. I present photos of my second-and-a-halfth quilt, “Earth,” which will hopefully be joined by the 3 other elements if I don’t crash out of my … [...] |
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