so I don't run out of beads before I'm done (???!!!!????) Okay, if you understand that, you are as nuts as I am....anyway, I'm still working along on the malachite piece and I'm seriously close to using up everything green I have in the delicas. Guess I will need to put in an order for some more as soon as I sell something else. I like the way this one is going, but its now to the point on each end that I need to put in some other design shape or it just ends up as stripes, which I don't like the look of.....I'll be trying that next.
After spending many hours working on the designing, drawing, enlarging, etc., I have actually begun the sewing process on the Car Quilt. I have decided that this is definately one that will continue to evolve as I work on it, so why not take the plunge? Anyway, I'm beginning at the top, Section 1 as it is labeled on the pieces. As soon as I had the basic design lines drawn out full size, I cut off that section and started figuring out which fabrics would become the sky and the mountains. The piece I have begun stitching on is the first mountain. The "snow" is appliqued down along the bottom edge and I have inserted a piece of very thin quilt batt behind it to give it "puff". the top edge, where all the pins are holding it smoothyly in place is where the "sky" piece gets sewed on. I'm making a lot of use of disappearing marker (which I usually hate because ... well, it disappears!), "spit pen" and pencil. Once again going where I've never gone before! But the challenge is GREAT!!
I finally got the basic shape of the Solar Power piece drawn on the backing and the polymer face glued on. I love the way the polymer came out....I tweeked the features after it came out of the mold, then after it was baked, I put on about half a dozen coats of gold glitter nail polish....I won't actually begin beading this until the malachite piece is done, but now I have the prep work all done and we're ready to start building "sun rays" (it took me about half an hour to get all of the tubes of beads sorted and weighed). Also, I can't start until I get the green beads out of the pallets! Soon tho'
Three and a half blocks down on the Cat Quilt...it really is coming along nicely. It RAINED last evening, so it was cool enough to work on it for an hour. Then this morning I did another half hour as I watched my quilt show. This really has been quite painless.
Well, its time to get busy!
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Of course I understand it, it's just like knitting faster so you don't run out of yarn! {VBG}
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