tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30662403323279281562024-02-20T22:44:56.806-08:00Ro the QuilterRo the Quilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13514247731054142707noreply@blogger.comBlogger122125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066240332327928156.post-79045740627737514232028-12-06T13:20:00.000-08:002019-06-15T20:54:44.500-07:00Introduction to meI grew up the daughter of a career naval officer.<br />
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We lived in various places around the country. I was very interested in history, and majored in it in college and later got a doctorate in American history. As a child I did embroidery, but little other sewing. When I was older I made clothing for myself.<br />
I got interested in quilting during the 1970's. when I found an article in a woman's magazine maybe Good Housekeeping. The article featured using up those long strings of polyester double knit left over from making slacks, and those run panty hose. You were to cut out 4 inch squares from the double knit, sew them together leaving an opening to insert the run pantyhose, whip the square shut, and tie with a yarn tie. Then you sewed the squares together to make a heavy ugly "quilt." It was the only quilt I ever sold, as a guy bought it at my garage sale to line the bottom of his pick up truck.<br />
In the 70's most quilts were quilted by hand in a large frame. I didn't have a frame, and I still wanted to make quilts, so I tried quilt as you go. It was a disaster--where I joined the blocks became large lumps. I finally bought a handmade quilt frame, and I decided to make a dinosaur quilt for my son, who was then 4. I went to the library and took our children's books with pictures of dinosaurs which I traced. I used the tracings as patterns. Scott wanted dinosaurs fighting cave men, but that would not be historically correct. The first bloc showed a dinosaur emerging from his egg. I made blocks representing the different dinosaurs, and one that showed a dinosaur expiring. The next blocks showed the saber tooth tiger, then cavemen fighting a cave bear, and finally the cave men doing cave paintings. The picture isn't very good, as I didn't have a good camera then.<br />
Anyway, now I was on my way. I've made bout 70 bed quilts since then, some from published patterns, but a lot of my own designs.<br />
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rothequilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321385847325150855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066240332327928156.post-64861497546461393262028-12-05T13:53:00.000-08:002017-02-19T07:46:03.330-08:00teachersI got interested in doing art quilts when I happened upon Pamela Allen's website. I loved everything about her work--the whimsical character ad the hand sewing. I didn't like to machine piece or machine quilt. When I found out she would be teaching at Asilomar in 2009, I signed up and went. She taught us her manner of constructing quilts, beginning with the backing on the bottom, followed by batting, and finally the fabric used to make the picture. The fabric was sewed down using embroidery floss. This is one of the quilts I made at Asilomar. It's called the Eye of the Whale. She gave me a scrap of fabric (the red, black, yellow, and blue). Then I had to construct a small piece filling in with other fabric and embroidery.<br />
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I still use her method today. I have taken several courses from her, mostly online.<br />
The second teacher who has inspired me is Jude Hill. Again there is a lot of hand sewing and whimsy. She also taught me how to weave fabric to use as a base. I took a lot of online classes from her (now these classes are online for free).<br />
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The last teacher I wanted to recognize is Luann Rimel. She goes to old cemeteries and takes pictures of the statues, which she later transfers to fabric. I made this piece in honor of my maternal ancestry. The old gentleman is my great great (or maybe another great) grandfather who was a tailor from Ireland. As Luanne recommended, I used old linens (in this case linen napkins) to mount the pictures on.</div>
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<br />rothequilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321385847325150855noreply@blogger.com1United States38.93988012312083 -93.1640732288360613.417845623120829 -134.47266722883606 64.461914623120833 -51.85547922883606tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066240332327928156.post-26438933304534404062028-12-01T19:45:00.000-08:002017-02-19T07:47:40.926-08:00art bitsSeveral years ago my guild, Bits N Pieces formed an art quilt group. I've been a member for several years. I will miss this group when my husband and I move to Overland Park Kansas. We meet monthly to share ideas, get feedback, and assistance with our projects. We also work on challenges. We had a literary challenge--choose a poem, book or a movie title and interpret it in cloth. I chose a book that I have enjoyed for years, Platero and I. Another challenge involved choosing a work of art to interpret. I used Renoir's Dancing at Bougival.<br />
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rothequilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321385847325150855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066240332327928156.post-53201561177924311792017-03-25T13:00:00.000-07:002017-03-25T16:25:36.955-07:00A tribute to my ancestorI wanted to do a piece honoring my Fourth great grandfather, who served eight years during the American Revolution. He was only 18 when he enlisted. He was from Stratham, NH. He was at the seige of Boston. His unit headed toward Quebec, but joined the retreating American army as they fled down Lake George. He was at the Battle of Saratoga, and spent the winter with Washington's army at Valley Forge. He fought at Monmouth, NJ, and finally he was present at Yorktown. He received the Badge of Merit, whose design was later used for the Purple Heart. He received pension, and a letter of commendation from Washington. He lived to be 82.<br />
My piece illustrates his life.<br />
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rothequilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321385847325150855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066240332327928156.post-82574425107316150002017-02-02T12:36:00.001-08:002017-02-02T13:45:34.262-08:00new piecesIt's been a while since I posted. My husband and I are moving to Overland Park Ks to a senior living facility. We will be near our daughter and our twin granddaughters. Ron has developed Parkinsinism . There is no family in St. Louis to help, so we are moving closer to our daughter.<br />
This fall we celebrated 50 years of marriage. I made a piece with our high school pictures and the high school pictures of our children and our four grandchildren. The gold thread represents the fifty years. I'm going to try to post more. Since we are moving and most of the work of sorting out stuff has fallen to me, I haven't had much time or energy to devote to my fiber art. I also made a piece celebrating my maternal genealogy.<br />
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My maternal ancestors came from Ireland, especially County Mayo. This piece has three sections: Ireland, Macclesfield, England, and Holyoke, Massachusetts. I made an Irish cottage, and an embroidered family leaving Ireland. My great great grandfather was a tailor. I have his shears, and I used a photo of the shears in all three panels. My son spent his honeymoon in Ireland, and I used two of his pictures of ruins, and another of an altar screen. Family legend holds that Michael earned money making uniforms for members in the workhouse. The Welch family left Ireland in 1849 during the potato famine. There is a picture of Michael in the upper right hand corner, and an appliqued piece of the workhouse.</div>
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The family stayed in England for ten years, where two of the daughters, including my great grandmother, worked in the mills. I found a picture of girls working in a mill that I placed on a dyed piece of crochet. I also appliqued a picture of a mill. The family lived on Derby street which I pictured on the piece, I also mounted picture of my great grandparents, Mary Welch and Thomas Doyle, and included their marriage registry and St Albans, the church where they were married.</div>
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The last panel shows their life in America. They traveled on the Tarifa and settled on Holyoke. My grandmother was born in Macclesfield, but she always said she was Irish. There are some pictures of my grandparents, Maggie and John Eagan. They had a general store, which I pictured. I mounted a scrap of fabric and what was left of her silk pincushion. I cut a piece from an embroidery. I also show my mother, pictured with Michael Welch, in her nightie, and at Nantaskett Beach, where her family owned hotels, until the went broke in the late 1920's.I used a book by Maggie Grey, Long Diaries Tall Tales for inspiration.</div>
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<br />rothequilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321385847325150855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066240332327928156.post-42129622998108487052016-10-10T16:05:00.000-07:002016-10-10T16:05:07.390-07:00My favorite art quiltThis piece is part of me English series. It is titled Marketplace at Stonehenge. I used purchased hand dyed fabric. and hand appliqued and embroidery. I made a triptych. It hangs in my kitchen.<br />
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rothequilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321385847325150855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066240332327928156.post-91493466649212123762016-05-20T09:06:00.002-07:002016-05-20T09:06:46.556-07:00Baby quiltsI have four grandchildren, and I have made them all baby quilts. On the quiltart web there was recently a discussion about whether baby quilts should be simple. Mine aren't--I couldn't resist making them special. My oldest grandchilren now 11, are twin girls. My daughter lived in a rented house, and requested quilts to hang on the walls. I made Rosie a sesame street quilt, and Caroline a quilt featuring my daughter's favorite books. Four both quilts I used settings based on some Japanese quilts I had seen, as I didn't want them to have rows of pictures. This design allowed me to fill in the blank spots with some jazzy material.<br />
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Since these were<span style="text-align: center;"> wall decorations, I felt they needed quilts to drag around. Rosie loved bunnies, and Caroline loved ducks. Here are their drag around quilts:</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">When my son had a daughter,</span><span style="text-align: center;"> I decided to make a quilt based on The Cow jumped over the Moon. I used the house they were living in at the time, and added their two pugs. Murphy, the black one, has </span><span style="text-align: center;"> only has one eye, and Maggie has a Gene Simmons' tongue:</span></div>
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I have used several of my granddaughters drawings in the piece. I asked them to draw me some beasts. You can see them below:<br />
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I'm not very good at moving the pictures around, but you get the idea. The first picture is a 2 headed beast drawn by 7 year ole Ellie. The next one with 2 heads also was drawn by 11 year old Caroline. The rest of the beasts were drawn by Caroline's twin sister, Rosie.<br />
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<br />rothequilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321385847325150855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066240332327928156.post-47984795444609494112016-01-16T10:23:00.000-08:002016-01-16T10:23:01.635-08:00January 16, 2016I'm still working on m beasts. Three of my granddaughters sent me drawings to interpret in fabric. Here is Ellie's, and her drawing:<br />
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Caroline has sent me a beast but I haven't transformed hers into fabric yet.rothequilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321385847325150855noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066240332327928156.post-43752625579598796662016-01-14T09:14:00.002-08:002017-02-17T07:00:12.014-08:00beasts againI am still working on my beasts quilt. I had hoped to have it finished to enter into our quilt show, but I don't think I will make the deadline. Here is an early picture of the beast cloth:<br />
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rothequilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321385847325150855noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066240332327928156.post-74864566744667390352016-01-12T14:18:00.000-08:002017-02-17T07:01:37.086-08:00Working on challengesYesterday we went to the neurological doctor and a further evaluation of Ron. The doctor said he didn't think that Ron has Parkinsonism, and wants to further evaluation him for normal pressure hydrocephalus. Next week Ron will return to Barnes Jewish Hospital for 3 days so that they can do several more spinal taps. These should indicate if Ron has normal pressure hydrocephalus, and if he does, they will schedule surgery to place a shunt. So we have to wait, something we do a lot.<br />
Today I went with Norrie and Wilma to the Ethical Society for a lecture “Politics and Problems of the
World’s Water Resources”
Dr. Robert Criss, MS, PhD,
Department of Earth an Planetary
Sciences, Washington. It was interesting, but somewhat depressing. I guess a series that investigates world problems won't feature a lot of happy topics.<br />
I am finishing up the entry forms for our quilt show in March. The forms for the Art Quilt group are due tomorrow. There are 4 challenges:<br />
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Inspiration--I did a piece celebrating my father. I used pictures that printed on fabric, and used reverse appliqued to fit the pictures behind the fabric. I used black embroidery floss to quilt the piece. I think the group really wanted a piece on what inspires my quilting but I featured my father anyway.<br />
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Snack Pack Challenge : We had to get a container for a snack and use those colors in the piece. I used a drawing by my granddaughter for the center. I made the center, and passed it on to other members of my group who added to the piece.<br />
My package held crackers and had brown, blue and green. <br />
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Whisper Challenge: Mine started with a picture from the Winterthur Museum Fairy Garden. I used a picture of a fairy house. I passed it on, and after 5 people made interpretations, the small quilts were returned to me.<br />
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Out of the Box Challenge: Debbie donated cigar boxes to the group. We had to give everyone one item (all the same pieces), and we had to use all the pieces in their box. I used a mojo doll that Pat Owoc had given me as the focal point.<br />
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These were the 4 challenges that the Art Quilt group did. I also participated in the Guild Challenge, based on a page from the National Geographic Magazine. My page featured mountains on a blue sky, I changed the scene to a night scene. The mountains, or most of them, were purple. I added woods, a river, and some teepees.<br />
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I am entering 2 more art quilts, Weeds and For the Love of Outlander. I got permission from Diana Gabaldon to use the cover design. The designs were sewed to silk and the pieces then sewn to cotton.<br />
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rothequilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321385847325150855noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066240332327928156.post-92220635806549790362016-01-09T10:09:00.001-08:002017-02-17T07:02:53.985-08:00my motherI'm still trying to figure out how to allow comments on my blog. No success yet.<br />
Yesterday we got a beautiful large tv. We have a technician coming today, since some things are working right.<br />
Today I need to work on getting my entry forms filled out for our quilt show.<br />
I also want to straighten up the back room, so I can make more art. The back room of the basement, shared with work tables, washer and dryer, etc. is my "studio."<br />
I have been watching to a Textileartist site that is discussing creativity.<br />
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picture for my Heritage quilt. This is a picture of my mother at about 3 years old. She had just recovered from scarlet fever. She tole me that her hair was blond before she got sick. They shaved her head and it all grew in dark brown.rothequilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321385847325150855noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066240332327928156.post-5842620666956521272016-01-08T13:38:00.002-08:002017-02-17T07:22:55.052-08:00John EaganI had an enjoyable evening last night when I went to the initial meeting of the Fibers Section of St. Louis Artist Guild. There seem to be lots of opportunities to link up with other fiber people, take classes and enjoy myself. There were a lot of people there that I knew, and some new faces. Today I signed up to take a class on marbleizing paper mat the artist guild.<br />
Wendy and her crew are coming in at 6:30 for a brief visit. I can give Caroline her Harry Potter Coloring book that just came today. It was supposed to be a Christmas present. Oh well. <br />
Here is another picture for my heritage quilt:<br />
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This is John Eagan, my maternal grandfather.rothequilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321385847325150855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066240332327928156.post-54670362190605948002016-01-06T08:24:00.001-08:002017-02-17T07:24:01.835-08:00Margaret Doyle, my maternal grandmotherToday I am going to the new Fibers Section meeting at St. Louis Artist guild. Karen and I are going together. I might also go to Art Mart for some supplies for my heritage quilt. Here is another thing I want to include in the heritage quilt.<br />
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This is the birth registration for my grandmother, Margaret Doyle, born 1863 in Macclesfield, England. Macclesfield is located in Chester region of England. They have great genealogy sources. I got this birth certificate from them, and other paper documents, like Margaret's twin's certificate, and their parent's marriage document.<br />
I think it's going to be a problem to fit all the info and pictures I have into the heritage quilt. Edit, edit, edit!rothequilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321385847325150855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066240332327928156.post-19528468545612097512016-01-05T10:56:00.001-08:002017-02-17T07:25:06.122-08:00researching my maternal sideSurprise! The new tv came yesterday and was left at the back door. It wasn't supposed to come until Wednesday. Ron and I hauled it inside, waiting for my son-in-law Chris to set it up on Sunday, when they are in town.<br />
I am still gathering supplies and pictures for my heritage piece, and drawing in my sketchbook (not so good but I hope I'll get better).<br />
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the cleaners came today, so the house looks good. I am trying to make myself clean out one drawer or one closet a day. Today I did a kitchen drawer. I am not a neat or organized person, but I figure if I can finally get things neat and organized, they will stay that way. Highly improbable.<br />
I am going to look at the pictures I have on the computer for my heritage<br />
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quilt, and scan the ones I don't have. This is my grandmother, Margaret Doyle Eagan. She was born in 1863! in Macclesfield England. Look at her ringlets and the feather on her hat. You can't see it very well, but the bar pin by her throat contained dimes, the first money her father earned in the US>rothequilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321385847325150855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066240332327928156.post-67506109526379769852016-01-03T11:44:00.003-08:002017-02-17T07:26:35.396-08:00bought Maggie Grey's bookToday is the depressing day when we take down the Christmas decorations. Now the house is back in order. <br />
I am beginning planning for my heritage multimedia piece. I bought Maggie Grey's new book, Long Diaries Tall tales. I have wanted to make a piece about my Irish heritage. at first I thought I'd make a quilted piece, but since I got this book I think I will work on a multimedia piece. I am busy acquiring pictures and ephemera to use, and paints and other items to use. rothequilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321385847325150855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066240332327928156.post-73973831373827898332016-01-02T14:07:00.000-08:002019-06-15T21:15:13.205-07:00Rosie and Caroline's Christmas hangingsSeveral years ago I made wall hangings with my 2 granddaughters, Rosie and Caroline. <br />
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The girls are now 11. Sean is 5 and Ellie is 7, and while they were staying at my house this year. I decided to make Christmas wall hangings with them. I had gone to Joanne's and bought 2 versions of sky fabric and some green corduroy. They chose the sky fabric that they liked. I put a piece of bating down, and glued the sky fabric down on the top. I had some fat batt that we attached to the bottom, and they sewed it on the sewing machine. Ellie used some fancy material (also from Joann's) that I cut in strips and she decorated the tree with it, and added a white moon and some pompoms for bulbs.<br />
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rothequilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321385847325150855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066240332327928156.post-30713450458525653042016-01-01T10:48:00.003-08:002017-02-17T07:28:00.561-08:00cigar box makeoversI have neglected my blog since October, but one of my 2 New Year's resolutions is to blog every day. Don't know whether I will follow through on the resolution, but I am doing a blog for January 1, 2016. <br />
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Who can believe it is 2016! I remember years ago thinking that 1984 was far in the future, after I read a book by the same title, and here we are, in 2016.<br />
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I used a handkerchief with daisies on it for the interior of Caroline's box, since daisies are her favorite flower.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">I had to think hard on how to do a box for my grandson Sean. I made a steam punk box with my friend Karen. I used a cropped picture of Sean in his Halloween custom for the lid, and put scanned pictures of Power Rangers inside the box. I was going to use Transformers, but Scott told me he was done with transformers and now into power rangers. Good thing I checked.</span><br />
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mountains for my theme. The quilt is hand pieced and hand quilted.rothequilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321385847325150855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066240332327928156.post-78996171782674574272015-10-07T12:12:00.002-07:002015-10-16T15:16:05.513-07:00A cloth of Beasts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Jude Hill has graciously opened a new site where her instructions and incredible wisdom are offered free. The site's name is Spirit Cloth 101. I am planning on working on my Beasts cloth. I started it a while ago, putting on beasts I made in her Patchwork Beasts class, along with some others I have made later. I have a lot of space to fill up, as I am putting the beasts on an old linen tablecloth.</div>
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<a href="http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/">Off the Wall Friday</a>rothequilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321385847325150855noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066240332327928156.post-7411986338908532682014-12-04T08:56:00.000-08:002014-12-04T08:56:04.476-08:00Finished individual pieceI have finished my individual piece for the Pairings project of Missouri fiber Artists. I used a tea dyed embroidered cotton, and did a tombstone rubbing on it. I only used the top of the rubbing. I couched gold thread for the floor, using a purple embroidery floss. Then I covered a lot of the design with sari cloth remnants. I basted some gold silk under the piece so that the gold would peek through the holes in the embroidered piece I cut a piece of batting to go behind the cloth, and using ecru embroidery thread, quilted the piece. A friend gave me a piece of pleated fabric. I put batting behind the piece, I stuck more thin sari remnants in the pleats, fastening them down with contrasting embroidery floss. This quilted the piece.<br />
I put the embroidered piece on top of the pleated piece, and sewed it down. <br />
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I have been working on my piece for the Pairings Challenge. The piece is a tea dyed doilie. I used sari silk scraps that I bought at 2 quilt shows and embroider floss to decorate the piece. The floor is couched thick gold thread, couched with purple floss. I plan on mounting some gold silk behind the piece so that it will show through the holes in the piece. Then I will put some batting under it and quilt it. <a href="http://rothequilter.blogspot.com/">Cemetery rubbings part 2</a> this part will be mounted on some pleated silk fabric. I'm having a lot of fun, along with some problems working on the piece, and will be excited when it is done.<br />
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Later we eco died some fabric. The long piece was done on a piece of raw silk that my father brought back from Japan in the 1950s. We had a great time.<br />
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<a href="http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/search/label/Off%20the%20Wall%20Fri">Off the Wall Fridays</a>rothequilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321385847325150855noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066240332327928156.post-55151871739378020772014-07-22T21:39:00.003-07:002014-07-22T21:39:49.384-07:00The Vikings are comingI have completed another piece in my English history series. I call it the Vikings are coming. I pictured 3 Viking ships approaching the British shore, with a ruined building on the top of the bluff. I used raw edge big stitch applique for the piece. I'm not sure what comes next in the series, maybe the Norman conquest.<br />
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