Sometimes It Stays Home

Many prints these days I make to take. I'll be out in Golden Colorado, Eugene Oregon and Hood River Oregon. I'll pack up some fabrics to sell (the only way I sell them now) while I'm there. But I think I'll hold on to this one. It intrigues me, and I've got an idea for it.

More In The Works

Back to the wet studio and printing. I've got a few scarves to make. I use Test Fabric's silk crepe de chine, and I process it just like the cotton. It's soda soaked, dried, printed, washed the next day with hot hot water, then hung to dry, pressed, sewn and ready for someone to love.

Line Work

Last night was an evening spent with folk music that ended with the lighted walk back to the car. Gotta get me some of these string lights.

Slash and Burn on a Cool Day

A hint of fall cool came to the class "Slash and Burn" today with the Marellus Modern Quilt Club. The best group to zip through adding a 'window' in the composition (the key to figuring out how to add sections together, I might add) they were also fun, dedicated, and open to my many demands. Thank you, Marcellus.

Evening Light

Last night it was garden tour night. This swath of greens and blues was just what was needed as the temperature finally broke and dropped down to human levels. It's not cooled down in the studio, so I'm taking a break from the hot iron and enjoying this.

Sharks and Jets

I've hung it on the wall for its beauty shot and ta-da, meet Take Two: Sharks and Jets. Weighing in at 40 x 40 inches.

Face It All

This last quilt gets its finish with a facing. I've cut a strip, sewn it to the front, then pulled it (detailed here) out to sew a "stay-stitch" before I turn it to the back, turn the edge under and hand stitch to the back. Clean edge without a thin binding line.

Quilting Time

Got together the piece that had been clinging to the design wall through the summer. Another Take Two, it will be with me on route to Eugene, Oregon next month via Colorado and the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. Find my class  at the RMQM under "Adult Education." But sign-up soon. 

The Ironing Before

Mundane, yes, this is the bundle of freshly washed and dried printed fabric. I've take a squirt bottle and sprinkled it throughout to dampen it, and left it to sit before I iron it. I used to use a true squirt bottle, but my poor hands demanded a less brutal technique.

Ironing Under Duress

It is just so hot here, I hardly needed to turn on the iron. But I did get through a batch. Tomorrow more, but earlier in the day. Enough already.

Stack of Prints

It'll be washing-out day tomorrow, although I'm waay to warm, and so tired of sweating, that I may hold off processing these till we get normal weather. Which may be never, or in my lifetime at least.