tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3597631975838016902024-03-18T03:14:50.839-04:00Orange explains it allA blog to share things that are not only Orange.Frederick Nunleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413058642344429632noreply@blogger.comBlogger441125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359763197583801690.post-80865836571598904552024-01-13T16:08:00.001-05:002024-01-13T16:08:20.880-05:00Black, White and Red quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This small quilt was made after a workshop with Nancy Purvis who gave us instruction in how to create improv type half square triangles in any size. It was her quilt that was a sensation on instagram and Pinterest among other social media in 2016. She was invited to present a day workshop with the DC Modern Quilt Guild. I think it was her first or second workshop ever for quilting techniques. It really got me inspired to work with improvisational quilting ever since. We learned this technique to take a bunch of squares and layer them then cut them and sew the pieces back together in a variety of HST of all sorts of sizes. Then the fun really started when I got home and began trying to make them fit into a useable form that was interesting to my eye. I decided to use a red/orange batik backing fabric by Allison Glass that was a nice warm balance to this intense contrasting top. I used red worsted wool to tie it together instead of quilting. It was the first and last time i did this as it was so hard to pull that wool through the batting and fabric layers which made my fingers hurt… but I completed this one and they still work. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have not posted a blog about anything since my computer died back in 2016 and this post was waiting when I got back this past year to try and catch up now on an iPad with a very nice keyboard. So happy to have a real keyboard to type. Only using my iPhone over the last years saw me spending too much time online in social media. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOu3j-syjpjY9OACfFMRhQwHtSyJz2r5XrmYx6q_rNUwPg4B5_e0HD_C_a0-7x9FSY0To5KrCezE2xL8Sn1hFWTHlFZ8goelI45QBW5mUt0kgbuSI1PFmrAQgCpvh9vOj8sxv0sCnGcfW9wCZmgB9LcsLWeX9tokcdshUMgg5RuxOHdA7G9R8JM8wXX4K7/s3264/IMG_0833.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOu3j-syjpjY9OACfFMRhQwHtSyJz2r5XrmYx6q_rNUwPg4B5_e0HD_C_a0-7x9FSY0To5KrCezE2xL8Sn1hFWTHlFZ8goelI45QBW5mUt0kgbuSI1PFmrAQgCpvh9vOj8sxv0sCnGcfW9wCZmgB9LcsLWeX9tokcdshUMgg5RuxOHdA7G9R8JM8wXX4K7/s320/IMG_0833.jpeg" width="240" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This shows the finished quilt before I washed and tumbled it to felt the red worsted wool ties. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp4SF_fxNfVkRQb4A0-ve_X_X-TyOeAtD1v5E9g6fj8KYKJIfPpIqSrUl1tLB1HbwsjK6I1318Uy2_flDck8GyAHty4Jlfa0C8iicTXQ50adGMZZ-Nz4foSptIvQV3wW-Xz1d_Dtrz4_XIk1xx7n7d8jM5isdbdveBxEj-GEsHg5ZTbmCgVEMWi3Jk386d/s2016/IMG_2850.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp4SF_fxNfVkRQb4A0-ve_X_X-TyOeAtD1v5E9g6fj8KYKJIfPpIqSrUl1tLB1HbwsjK6I1318Uy2_flDck8GyAHty4Jlfa0C8iicTXQ50adGMZZ-Nz4foSptIvQV3wW-Xz1d_Dtrz4_XIk1xx7n7d8jM5isdbdveBxEj-GEsHg5ZTbmCgVEMWi3Jk386d/s320/IMG_2850.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Label Hand embroidery to tell the quilts origin story</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6DnjKI6jzgUHTwkwQC6hpGcSLurYyLMGxcjykN0nUcxIlAN0211DEnFz0CQPbuyyeIPNEj9i1xOcDeaUe2nmdtn02WLD2h-YrOja_MG2-LfZ4VdDYT3FpO-bgvDprAxPXxDGceOSYkhDZIiKWJCJ5jshpwcXSo0GQ1qZ3X-iEd3DjtVbuhxOry2hNrIzV/s320/IMG_6248.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Label on the rear gives credit to Nancy for the inspiration and lesson. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz8qydobemmHEsvaHc2J2XGNbItVLlpVLneGI1cUXW7XDz0iNSfaUWRjpWp6K1I5140cA_uy0uTqrUQDHB106GLRn9L0kiVxneE1sIkXFM0ZGYe_RfqUYkLTyHlEoomTELyHciOybnv3Bo83dADME8rnUqMvNIOg8ZR3lCYO__JcENvJnl7Fl6BMf1Z_3D/s2448/IMG_8851.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz8qydobemmHEsvaHc2J2XGNbItVLlpVLneGI1cUXW7XDz0iNSfaUWRjpWp6K1I5140cA_uy0uTqrUQDHB106GLRn9L0kiVxneE1sIkXFM0ZGYe_RfqUYkLTyHlEoomTELyHciOybnv3Bo83dADME8rnUqMvNIOg8ZR3lCYO__JcENvJnl7Fl6BMf1Z_3D/s320/IMG_8851.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anne from DCMQG with Nancy Purvis at her machine during our workshop doing HST</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6R1gzPsNZ8je3YFXbGFiMR-r6zIt0p2IZptF99pZZqAc7Zuxe7deoYcyvTkN6HUEVwGFzHue3mcmjrVJ7q-RcRoKXTGSXHRPYjfw-tQZs5piDu7bLTVPBmJjaW5gOSXRgMlZ4-AKLlJLDMuR4XQHLBb_RyBlIHflqHNmXuz5X4F7dnFxJu8LHH-fgNTkr/s3264/IMG_8858.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6R1gzPsNZ8je3YFXbGFiMR-r6zIt0p2IZptF99pZZqAc7Zuxe7deoYcyvTkN6HUEVwGFzHue3mcmjrVJ7q-RcRoKXTGSXHRPYjfw-tQZs5piDu7bLTVPBmJjaW5gOSXRgMlZ4-AKLlJLDMuR4XQHLBb_RyBlIHflqHNmXuz5X4F7dnFxJu8LHH-fgNTkr/s320/IMG_8858.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Nancy’s quilt that inspired me to take her workshop</div><div style="text-align: center;">It is made with a very dark blue and off white cotton solids. Then she used a table top machine to do her straight line quilting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-QRQXf1aUDK2n4yN3AnmSrws8-j4YB7Qiv0nhU7gzPol_M45Czfbhyjc2FjfnewrtUV-IV61-t4PyhNrE7hYUBa-fjiUpAs9Xw81Uht1M7ab_GxUVITWkBbzArlYxAABo19jh4yTxw0-OTZaBsh5pErlLjsnphSLIEgpGV-BrnSd2LILlsQsdMFchOwME/s2655/IMG_8895.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2655" data-original-width="2446" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-QRQXf1aUDK2n4yN3AnmSrws8-j4YB7Qiv0nhU7gzPol_M45Czfbhyjc2FjfnewrtUV-IV61-t4PyhNrE7hYUBa-fjiUpAs9Xw81Uht1M7ab_GxUVITWkBbzArlYxAABo19jh4yTxw0-OTZaBsh5pErlLjsnphSLIEgpGV-BrnSd2LILlsQsdMFchOwME/s320/IMG_8895.jpeg" width="295" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Nancy showing us an improvisational log cabin technique that is my go to for filling in spaces on improv quilts now seven years later.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div>Frederick Nunleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413058642344429632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359763197583801690.post-72401645862022276642023-11-13T22:28:00.003-05:002023-11-13T22:28:14.015-05:00It’s been a long time <p>since I posted a blog post and a lot has happened in my life. I am still here in Washington DC making quilts, gardening, exploring nature and photographing what I see. Time to get back to work. I thought maybe I should just put this here as a place marker. More to come soon if Blogger still exists?</p><p><br /></p>Frederick Nunleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413058642344429632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359763197583801690.post-36765537788433008002016-05-23T13:28:00.000-04:002016-05-23T13:28:43.635-04:00Improvisation on Shoeman's Puzzle Quilt finish<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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June of 2015 DC Modern Quilt Guild hosted <a href="http://www.dsquilts.com/" target="_blank"><b><i>Denyse Schmidt</i></b></a> for a quilting improvisation workshop in which I was fortunate to enroll and wrote about last year. (follow <b><i><a href="http://orangeexplainsitall.blogspot.com/2015/06/denyse-schmidts-pure-improv-workshop.html" target="_blank">this link</a></i></b> to read that report) She gave us a traditional pattern lesson then we were instructed in how to play with the shapes and develop the blocks in a free form way. Improvising with the wedges of two tones of the same color to form a playful modern look with an old fashioned repeating block design. I chose two shades of orange for my quilt lesson.<br />
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We spent the whole day working and sharing and reviewing our progress as about 20 quilters improvised with their colors. I tried adding a little magenta with pattern and was relieved to get away from the all orange blocks but in the end decided I needed to keep to the orange theme for a finish that was true to the intention I set out with to make a new orange quilt. I completed the quilt with rows of pie shapes going this way and that dark in light and light inside dark alternating in rows. It took a long time to get it laid up and then figure out how to sew them together without messing up the order I had chosen. Thanks to some ones' picture online I discovered marking with numbered pieces of masking tape would help me organize the trip from design wall in my bedroom to the sewing machine in the living room and back to the wall. In the end I messed it up but decided I liked how a couple of my rows got flipped over and went butterfly like, instead of march stepped in the same direction. </div>
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Then the finish got a couple of sashes worked into the rows and ripped out later because it again seemed to my eye to distract from the repeating design feature and the way the areas come together. See the image below for the strips running through about one third and two thirds of the way across from side to side. </div>
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As it was laying on the bed I figured it was the wrong design to have the rows interrupted by these long narrow strips. It took a while to sink in but eventually I knew I had to rip them out. </div>
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It's not a lot of fun to rip such long seams out but it is more fun that leaving a design you don't like with months of hand quilting ahead. It just made sense to me to rearrange these rows without the separations. Once the top was completed I added long slanting strips about 6 inches wide to the edge to make the quilt top a little larger to fit the bed. </div>
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Next I launched into the back design. I chose a reflection of the top's design by making a giant block of the traditional Shoeman's puzzle to cover the back using light shades of white. I chose two white prints on off white fabrics to give a to rest from the orange when all that orange is just too much. This means the quilt can be flipped over and all you see is one an orange binding on a simple white on white design with big stitch quilting. Making the back so large required clearing the living room floor to cut and assemble these huge puzzle pieces into a quilt sized block and then I had to add a 5 inch border all around to make it big enough to cover the quilt top. Again I cut the shapes for this bed sized block free hand on the floor from yardage. That was a real challenge but it went off smoothly once I made up my mind to work it out. </div>
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Here is the top with the batting and the backing spray basted in place ready to begin hand quilting. </div>
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On the floor I marked my quilting guide lines by using the Hera marker and following the edges of each of the lighter orange shapes about a quarter inch inside the seams. Quilting began with size #8 ecru pearl cotton thread and my big # 6 crewel embroidery needle and my favorite thick goat skin thimbles. </div>
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Beginning in the center I use a standing hoop simply to keep the quilt elevated so I can put one hand under the quilt and the other on top to do the quilting. It took a long time to finish quilting this big quilt and once I was done I realized that this white line pattern wasn't enough quilting. Eventually I decided to add some orange pearl cotton #8 to the darker orange parts and chose to contrast the sharply angled lines with circles of various sizes all over the quilt. Phase two of the quilting moved along slowly but the end was in sight, making it seem a little faster. </div>
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The back of the quilt looks like these detail shots above with just some big stitch quilted white lines and some orange circles... the label is a tribute to Denyse Schmidt for the class and all the inspiration I have collected from her workshop and her book. It's been a slow process to complete this quilt, mostly because I hand quilt but every stitch was a delight even the ones I had to pull out. Now I have it washed up and dried in the dryer for that nice crinkled soft touch of a new quilt on our bed today in the cold damp it's a very rewarding creation. </div>
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Frederick Nunleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413058642344429632noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359763197583801690.post-81066044687564501602016-05-06T14:56:00.002-04:002016-05-06T14:56:40.592-04:00Appliqué Quilt finish<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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This is the next new thing, appliqué pieces on top of an improvisational patchwork quilt top. I was inspired by several quilts and people to try this. Applique is hand sewing technique which has been used for centuries to decorate, using small shapes of colored fabric applied on top of a bigger surface. I used a simple big background improvisation and laid rounded squares on top with a layer of cotton batting in between to add extra puff to the attached applique pieces.<br />
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In this image you see the rounded squares and cotton batting cut and applied with long quilting pins to the background hanging on my design wall. I really enjoyed selecting fabrics and arranging my design before sitting down to baste stitch them in place firmly enough to finish sewing them down. The idea of making these rounded squares came from a hash tag on Instagram last year #squircles a word I had never seen but it seemed to be originating from the work of designer <a href="http://www.robertkaufman.com/fabrics/designers/carolyn_friedlander/" target="_blank">Carolyn Friedlander</a>. She who advances the concept of "slow sewing" aka hand sewing and enjoying the meditation that ensues as you work stitch by stitch around a shape. </div>
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I don't know who came up with the word and I am not sure I want to endorse it but square-circles mashed into "squircles" is kind of fun to say and it does make describing this sort of shape easy. Wonder if Websters will pick that up? I had hoped to join in a recent workshop on applique quilting with Carolyn my <a href="http://dcmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Washington DC Modern Quilt Guild</a> held but I missed the entry time and had to settle for a great trunk show and talk given afterwards. It was fun because I got to see her and her quilts in person and compare my work to what I had seen on Instagram in her photos of these quilts. I was very surprised to discover I made most of my squircles many times larger than hers. She showed us the <u><a href="http://carolynfriedlander.com/summer-makes-aerial-grove-in-a-multitude-of-kona-cottons/" target="_blank">Aerial Grove</a></u> quilt that really got me thinking I should try this, seen below. It's a series of squircles in almost a rainbow of colors which were selected very thoughtfully from a collection of 303 Kona Solids then sewn on to long blocks. Her squircles are about two to three inches in diameter. </div>
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The whole aerial grove quilt has these appliqued long blocks sewn together then surrounded by a low value patchwork improvisational composition to create a field around the rows of bold colored shapes. See a smaller version below.<br />
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Here in this last quilt we see a big collection of her shapes that are hard to name but very beautiful together as a series. She uses a very thickly machine quilted back ground to contrast her hand applique pieces. She gave us a tip I had to try when I got home about packing quilts. She folds them on the bias rather than squared to reduce the chance of making permanent crease marks in the quilt. The fabric is less likely to hold a crease when folded and stored on the bias and each time you unfold it you can refold in new places on the whole quilt to reduce fiber wear and tear. </div>
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I chose to hand tie the center of each of my applique pieces to secure the extra layer of batting inside the shapes. I was concerned that when washing that they might shift or even curl up inside and come out of the dryer with balls of batting wadded up. On the really big ones I added four ties. I big or long stitch quilted around each applique squircle and used a winding line to quilt the background. </div>
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These three images blown up by clicking on them will show you the overall quilting lines that wind in three rows back and forth over the surface. All hand quilted. I used a shirt striping from Denyse Schmidt, that I had been hoarding, for the binding. It was to bring all those darker sections together with the and frame the whole design with a little more patterning. I selected solid, striped, checked, tartan and doted fabrics for a more masculine quilt. All of the improvisation background and binding were sewn on my 1935 Singer #221 Featherweight portable sewing machine.<br />
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It was a fun project and I learned a lot along the way about applique patches as with any new technique I feel like I could do it better next time. I would select smaller pieces to apply and do them on smaller blocks before I sew them together as a finished top. That will require a more planning than I did for this spur of the moment project. Since this is a nap sized quilt and I worked the applique pieces around the edges it went pretty well but I would have been easier to do this in sections, even perhaps in long strips like Carolyn did on her <u><a href="http://carolynfriedlander.com/summer-makes-aerial-grove-in-a-multitude-of-kona-cottons/" target="_blank">Aerial Grove</a></u> quilt top.<br />
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Stacking pieces is another applique technique I would like to attempt for a future project. Shapes on top of shapes seems like it would be fun. In this quilt I decided to keep it simple and thought this form of applique piece, the rounded square or the squared off circle, brought to mind the shaped color field paintings and sculptures of a modern artist I admire, who recently died, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellsworth_Kelly" target="_blank">Ellsworth Kelly</a>. If you don't know Ellsworth Kelly's work yet, I suggest you look him up and try to find one in a museum because they are so wonderful in their simplicity of form and powerful colors! What an inspiration his work is for this modern quilter. From a recent exhibition at National Gallery of Art his printed shapes floating on the walls. He has other works in the free museums of Washington, DC<br />
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I began with a request from <b><i><a href="https://jessiealler.com/" target="_blank">Jessie Aller</a></i></b> for some improv blocks for a DC Modern Quilt Guild charity project she was putting together in 2014 for a member named Angela. It was simple rectangles of mixed fabrics building a block using a scrappy theme. After I made several I decided it might be fun to try and make a bunch of these blocks to use as fabric in my own quilt.</div>
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My new blocks would be in the colors of the rainbow because our apartment is flooded with these spectrum every sunny morning and lots of quilters are really into "rainbow" as their color theme, I wanted to try my own version but I wanted to do it with black as my background like the Amish quilts I like. It was in part a reaction to all the gray and white used by many modern quilters. They rarely choose black to work into a quilt design. The bold colors of Amish and Mennonite quilts really appeal to my eye and they are usually dark and have black or dark blue as a ground. </div>
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gratuitous chicken shot taken at the Zenzendorf <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/style/they-built-it-no-one-came.html?_r=0" target="_blank">Hermitage Pitman PA</a>. </div>
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Back in 2006/2007 I went to a retreat and for an artist residency to a magical place in the mountains of Pennsylvania called the Hermitage founded and run and created entirely by the Zenzendorf Brothers who have a huge collection of early American log buildings filled with all sorts of tools, furniture and implements of farm life circa 1800's from the many farms around their Pennsylvania Dutch valley. In the oldest house there was a sort of loft room with beds piled high with antique quilts.<b><i> <a href="http://www.atthehermitage.org/" target="_blank">At the Hermitage</a></i></b> they used no electricity and candles or oil lanterns (flashlights) under the stars. A shower house with water from the well and a propane gas tank to heat the water and run a refrigerator were the only modern comfort luxuries. It was such fun to be there and In the 1747 reconstructed Moravian house (see image below) I discovered this antique fan quilt. I got a snapshot of it on the bed in the loft where I slept under it one chilly autumn night. The bed was antique too with no box spring just ropes holding the lumpy mattress off the floor. </div>
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When I began I wasn't sure how I would use my rainbow blocks this row of colors with black edge and solid strips was an early sketch and it helped to keep count of how many improv squares of each color I had completed and how they looked as a group.</div>
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This shows one idea I played with before I moved on to add a magenta to this spectrum and then came to the conclusion I wanted to do a 2015 year of curved piecing in my quilts. I looked around for design ideas and realized that I would like to try a fan quilt like this antique crazy pieced fan quilt from The Zenzendorf Hermitage which I slept under years ago. I took the fan idea and built my blocks to be my color fabric in a curved pieced design using the black as background.</div>
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Cut glass crystals hang in my windows where they cast spectrum all over our living room in the morning when the sun rises. I took careful note of the order of the colors to do my layout then forgot it in the end as I split the colors up to place the orange near the center.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Rainbow lighting on the White house to celebrate Marriage Equality decision by Supreme Court last summer was just one of the many reminders about rainbows last year.</span></div>
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I made this rope bowl for a charity auction early on in the year which pushed me to create more blocks in more colors of the rainbow after the orange and blue ones I did for the guild quilt. </div>
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It was challenging to cut and piece so many small curves my fan block size is 8" finished with the colored fabric having so many seams to sew over in danger of being chewed by the feed dog... By the time eight fans of each color were pieced I ran out of steam and decided it was big enough to be a nice nap sized quilt and laid them on the wall and pieced them together in a diagonal design that shows off the rainbow effect. 66" square is the finished size. </div>
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I used pins to make each fan, that helped keep the colored improv seams under control as I rounded the curves. Then I got a number made and began experimenting with how to assemble the fan blocks.</div>
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Lots of ways to put them together with the black background were considered but in the end I chose to do the diagonal layout and save the stars for another quilt top design. </div>
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The view across the 2012-13 English Paper Pieced Rose-Star quilt to the wall that holds my quilts in progress. You see on my design wall an early layout of the shapes. I had two shapes from my curved cuts pieced with matching curved black grounds. </div>
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Once I got the fan top together I wanted to use the traditional fan quilting pattern to do my quilting on this project and I chose rainbow pearl cotton size 8 thread in colors as close to the row as possible.</div>
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There you can see the orange red rows of quilting and then below the oval label I embroidered using regular two thread embroidery floss with a peek at the back a print that has butterflies and dots in a lavender gray on black ground. The binding is solid colors laid out in the spectrum around two times in a row all around the edges.<br />
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Another antique crazy quilted fan quilt I saw last summer done by a lady Esther in 1896 which reenforced my creative process to building my own. She did a nice hand embroidered label that puts mine to shame but it's not a new idea to embroider a makers label. </div>
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Detail of the quilting using the shapes on the top to dictate what size and shape the squared linear quilting pattern took was fun but very time consuming as must hand stitching always will be. </div>
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This quilt was built using a "score" from the new Handbook for Improv Quilters by Sherri Lynn Wood 2015 I receieved for my 60th Birthday gift from my partner last summer. I am really enjoying reading and using her techniques many I am already using but finding new ways to go forward through her writing. </div>
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I chose all solid fabrics which is a popular choice with modern quilters and I haven't done much work with pure solid color fabrics. I was always drawn to the tiny print calico style fabrics for it's interesting visual textures, but I am learning to use both and wanted to be pure in my first attempt at doing a Score from the Handbook. I used Kona Solids: Cinnamon and Chartreuse and Lilac as the filler color. It worked out rather nicely I thought and I quit assembling them when I had three blocks that were about the same size. The total wasn't big enough for anything but a new born infant quilt so I decided to choose a second set of colors to work that would mimic my first set but be different. </div>
Next color selection was Salmon pink, dark Magenta and Silver gray for the filler.<br />
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Once those were joined up I took a third set of Turquoise, Orange-yellow and used Corn yellow as my filler.<br />
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Then I had enough to make a throw quilt top and started trying to figure out how to join them all together. It was an interesting project but I found in the end I didn't care much for the three sets together.<br />
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I was surprised at how easy it was to cut and sew fabric in straight edged shapes not using a ruler which is actually how I began before I had a set of rotary cutters and rulers and mats. In the future I will decide on all the fabrics going into a project before I get into a mix up like this one was.<br />
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This was a small quilt project I made as a gift. It's for a friend from my college Printmaking classes at Pratt Institute who has a new home of her own she acquired last summer. It is her first home which Keith and I went to visit during our big road trip last August. She has a big collection of artworks and had reserved a special place for one of my quilts. While we were there we measured the spot she reserved, intending for me to match up the space to fit the finished quilts I have at home. It is a place of pride by the wood stove in an alcove right in the center of the living room. I suspected right away that my finished quilts are a little bigger than what would fit in this space but I kept quiet because the idea to create a custom quilt suddenly leapt into my head.<br />
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I began this quilt with orange fabric because of the reactions to my finished quilts she had given while visiting Washington, DC and I know she likes orange. I wanted to experiment with several new techniques. The fabric colors I limited to orange, orange-red solids and a raspberry stain magenta print. I began with several blocks from the improv workshop with Denyse Schmidt last summer that I decided not to put in my bigger all orange quilt. It took off from there making new blocks by whacking those improv blocks up to making new ones. Then I began using a new technique of the eighth inch strip stripe inserted in a block which I discovered on Instagram. This is an example below. </div>
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While working I was thinking about handsome mid century chair's upholstery color and dots and the lines in the architect's modern garden features as references to fit this angled improvisational quilt design with round dots and triangles of hand quilting on the finish. </div>
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It fell together quite fast since it is small and I had a lot of fun playing with the colors and pieces to create the top. Once the top was assembled I used an art quilt technique to put the three layers together. Instead of a binding tape around the raw edges, I used an envelope or pillowcase technique for the first time. It worked quite well and gave a nice finish without a tape frame. </div>
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The quilting was fun. I used a contrasting pearl cotton size number eight with big stitch to show the piecing off and followed the angles then added circles to reflect the chair's dots. As you may notice the quilt colors are different in each slide. While photographing these close value oranges and high contrasting magenta I learned it confuses the camera. In some lights it looks like yellow and purple but that is not the way it looks in person. I marked the slide that comes closest to the real colors.<br />
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I gifted the finish to my friend just after Christmas when she came to visit and it was such a surprise and I gather she is very happy. She went right home and hung it in the space she showed me she wanted to display an original quilt last summer on our visit. Bonus shot includes one very interesting cat named honeybee passing by the new art work and she is the reason this collector doesn't think she can take home a quilt to use on her beds since miss Honeybee sleeps on them. I liked the cat and wonder if there is a color quilt I could make that wouldn't show her fur? </div>
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Frederick Nunleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413058642344429632noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359763197583801690.post-29261641768763039932016-01-12T11:13:00.000-05:002016-01-12T11:13:03.958-05:00add a border block quilt label updateIn the previous article about the Add-A-Border block I used to improvise a nine patch quilt top I neglected to show the back and the label I embroidered for it in my post. Trying to update the post by adding more photos and text wasn't working this morning. I decided to just post these photos with this story all on it's own.<br />
Ever since I began quilting the label at the end was the part I felt was very important and it was a challenge to make. I was influenced to do simple big embroidery letters by a lovely lady in England Claire O. known as <b><i><a href="http://selfsewn.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Selfsewn</a></i></b> who had a blog post a number of years ago on her blog about her own labels you can read it here: <i><b><a href="http://selfsewn.blogspot.com/2013/03/hand-embroidered-quilt-label-tutorial.html" target="_blank">Selfsewn Label Tutorial </a></b></i>that was totally inspiring. For me it was the answer to the problem.<br />
So thanks Claire! Here is my latest kind of simple label on AAB quilt project seen in my previous post.<br />
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A few years ago I joined an Internet group of quilters who swap small blocks and add borders to each then send them off to others to add more rounds until a 6 inch block becomes 24 inches then it is given to the first to lay claim to the block. A nice fellow in Kentucky hosts the block swap sending and resending the blocks from one quilter in the Flickr.com group to the next. Here is a link if you want to see some of the work or join in the fun: <i><b><a href="https://www.flickr.com/groups/add-a-border/" target="_blank">AddABorderBlockSwap on flickr.com</a> </b></i></div>
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AFter a while in the group I never got to select a finished block so a second option was to keep one you liked and replace it. I chose this block after adding a round to it because I fell in love with the orange/magenta striped background fabric and the hexagon hand pieced block on it that looked like a toy block. It was made by Ed Hart who goes by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/10249901@N04/" target="_blank"><b><i>Cattail</i></b> </a>in the group. I chose it as my block to keep and pinned it to my design wall to ponder how to build it into a queen size quilt top of my own improvising from this beginning. </div>
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Not long after deciding to keep this block I put it away because I had so many quilt projects already underway and this project was not clearly worked out in my head.</div>
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The following year once all my Log Cabin quilts were completed I tried again. This first block built up to about 24 inches square and I realized that to keep going, like some other quilters do making it all a giant medallion, was going to be really difficult to keep my quilt squared. The wobble was starting to distort the square shape after adding only three more rounds! </div>
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Next idea was to make more blocks like this improvising my way along with my core design element taken from the original block, the three diamond hexagon on a bright background that looks like a three dimensional toy block sitting in a field.</div>
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Next step was to make some three inch diamond English Paper Pieces and try to match the fabric of the original block with purple, white and green from my stash. It was fun making them up and hand stitching them together a couple at a time. </div>
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The second block was different because the background was different and so it went on and on with each new block. Once I had four I decided I was going to organize them by doing a big nine patch design for the overall quilt pattern. </div>
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The colors shifted to the purple and aqua range and I wanted to keep the magenta, red and oranges in the quilt so I chose another tartan in red and dark blue as the third block's backgrounder. </div>
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In this 4th block I was ready to take a step aside from the aqua purple theme and move back to the pink purple orange end of the range of colors. I am not sure why but it felt right when I headed in this direction looking at all four it needed this brightness. </div>
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Then I wanted to throw a twist in and added a block with a diamond setting of the central hexagon. It was fun and a little tricky to add triangle blocks split in two...</div>
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I blogged earlier about messing this one up at our guild sewing day. I cut that orange edged block in half the wrong way first thing and had to start it all over when I got home but that is a good example of how much thought and concentration is required to get the results you want in quilt top piecing. This is how they looked before I cut them in half to create a triangle to add to the diamond block center. </div>
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The various blocks all improvised pieces totaled nine which took a while to even up with extra rounds of thinner and thicker bands. In the final judgement I chose to add some solid magenta as sashing to draw all these unmatched blocks together to make a top to fit my queen sized sleigh bed. </div>
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I was influenced by the hand work movement to make up some one inch English paper pieced tumbling blocks to include as a sort of button decoration on the intersections of the sashing. I wanted to add some scale to the theme small and large. </div>
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They were so small that I had a struggle to figure out how to get them on the intersections of the sashing and decided that applique was my best bet once the whole was hand quilted. I chose # 8 pearl cotton in contrasting or matching colors to detail the big blocks and surround them on the sashing leaving room for these small tumbling blocks at the intersections. </div>
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I wanted to thank Ed Hart for the inspiration and Dustin Cecil for sending me this block that has kept me busy for the last couple years. I regret that my home is kind of small and tight so the finished quilt shots are cramped but maybe next weekend when I show it at the Washington DC Modern Quilt Guild meeting I can get a better photo to add later. </div>
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For the first time we made it down to Colonial Williamsburg for a few days of touring and shopping the week before Christmas. The high points were seeing the fire pots over the Fife and Drum Corps then caroling on the courthouse steps and the walks to admire the wreaths, swags and garlands on all the homes and businesses of the colonial area. It's been warm this year so it didn't take much effort to go on long walks visiting and snapping photos of the best and nearly all the rest. So here without much else are the colorful wreaths and decorations of Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg VA from 2015.<br />
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<br />Frederick Nunleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413058642344429632noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359763197583801690.post-526728987758798102015-12-11T11:55:00.001-05:002015-12-11T11:56:42.856-05:00Renwick returns with Wonder<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of my favorite museums of American art has been the Smithsonian's Renwick across from the White House. This past Dec. 5th my Modern Quilt Guild group took a field trip there for the reopening after two years closed for renovations. They returned with a block buster of a show! Nine artists each with a whole gallery space to do their thing and they really knock it out of the park. The exhibit is beautiful and does what the title says fills the viewer with wonder and questions. There are videos with each artist describing and answering some questions but the visual experience is a delight for anyone who takes the time to venture through. They encourage using your photography equipment for a change in this exhibition and I got home with about 65 iPhone photos. I am going to share a few with comments for my post. If you want to see more social media tag <a href="http://renwick.americanart.si.edu/" target="_blank">#RenwickGallery</a> will bring up lots more if you scroll down on the home page link. Or go look at these sites using the hash tag<br />
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first room was full of stacks of little 4x4 sheets of note papers that look like a cave floor with these towering stalagmites 12 feet or more tall. </div>
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Second room was an amazing thread art installation by Gabreil Dawe in colors of the rainbow.<br />
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The big gallery in the back was used by one of our favorite artists whom Keith got to study sapling bending with out in Colorado years ago. Patrick Doughert<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 35px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">y </span>also</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> had an installation in Salem MA when we visited the Peabody Essex this past August. It's interactive and you can get inside these creations and look up close at all the woven saplings.</span></span></div>
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Also one tree construction installed that was made from a mold of an 140 year old tree in the extreme north country dwarfed by weather conditions it was only about 6 feet tall.</div>
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Bigger tree is yet to come when we climb the long staircase towards the formal grand salon.</div>
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Lights above were by the same artist who transformed the underground passage at National Gallery of Art's east wing tunnel with thousands of LED lights programed to never repeat a performance of ever changing patterns. Leo Villareal did this modern rain like installation.<br />
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The grand salon held a ceiling full of woven strings and a floor covered with a new carpet that are both an interpretation of the Tsunami that hit in the Pacific when Japan had that huge earth quake a couple years ago. Janet Echelman also had an installation on a much bigger scale in Boston this past summer we were lucky to get to see suspended over the Greenway. This room was full of people laying on the floor to get a view of the ceiling string art as various colored lights played with the shapes. Lots of fun to visit this room.<br />
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I want to go back and see it again and watch for a while and see what else it feels like. Music or sound might have enhanced this installation to add a wave experience or a whale song or two? From here we walked to the big tree room by John Grade with the 140 year old tree that he cast in the wilderness using plaster and brought back to a studio where a hundred odd assistants put together sections of wood about 1-2 inches long to build a tree section then they were all assembled and sanded to round them down and delivered and hung sideways in long narrow room. I love trees and this was a tribute that really felt good to experience. It was chosen because the Renwick is 140 years old too.<br />
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it was fun to watch the sections sway ever so slightly as the people brushed against them coming in the narrow opening. Or maybe it was like a pendulum swaying with gravity?<br />
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Maya Lyn mapped the Chesapeake bay using special marbles that glass blowers use to mix colors. Her childhood memories of these special rough marbles were her inspiration and the wonder of the patterns of water working it's way through the landscape on a map. </div>
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Then the room of history of the Renwick had a great ceiling install and a sculpture of the "greek slave girl" that opened the museum back in the 1800's by an American artist. </div>
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This is a octaginal shaped room with doors on three sides and one window. Next a room full of rubber tire and inner tube sculpted dividers of space that had the smell to go with the look. </div>
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Finally the room we have heard so much about the bugs on the wall room. The background color is made from beetle wings crushed to give that red pink tone rubbed on the walls. The specimen bugs are bought from suppliers who do all the dirty work of collecting them for scientists and now artists!<br />
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This should be on everyones list of must see exhibits in my mind as it is really easy to wonder through and doesn't take much effort. SO happy to have the Renwick back in working order again. DC wasn't the same without them these past two years. Now we will loose the Freer for a couple years while they do remodeling there..... Still the free art galleries in Washington DC are amazing. Thank you America!<br />
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<br />Frederick Nunleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413058642344429632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359763197583801690.post-35976186201656881722015-11-01T11:49:00.000-05:002015-11-01T11:52:30.547-05:00Quilt finish for charity<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Recently I finished this new blue and white quilt of wedges sewn in long strips which were left over from a Dresden Plate quilt called <b><i><a href="http://orangeexplainsitall.blogspot.com/2013/10/blue-diamonds-quilt.html" target="_blank">Blue Diamonds</a></i></b> I made almost three years ago.<br />
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I made too many wedges for my Dresden plates because I wanted lots to choose from when I was building them. I cut and cut six inch wedges and then put them together as I needed them to mix and match my dark and light plates. When I was done making two large bed sized tops I set the remaining wedges aside. At some point these wedges got sewn together into long alternating blue/white strips that laid in a pile of left over blocks for quite a long time. Opportunity this year to make a quilt for the homeless arose at the guild as it always does in Sept. We have 100 quilts for Kids as a challenge and I had a pal to help me assemble these into a quilt at our all day guild sewing day. Virgil, I met him over the summer, quilts but doesn't have much experience he says. We joined forces at the guild meeting and with his help we put it together in a top that measures about 40 x 64 inches. A nap quilt for a toddler or a throw for some one feeling the season chill. Our quilts this year are going to the Washington DC homeless family shelter at the old DC General Hospital I believe. Once the top was all sewn together and nicely pressed I was lucky to find a nice piece of blue and white tartan in a box of donated fabric large enough to cover the back. I brought the blue tartan yardage and our top home to finish with batting quilting and all the usual parts. <br />
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Since this quilt is going to be a donation, I did the straight line quilting on my featherweight Singer sewing machine so it was faster than by hand. I did a diagonal design to echo the wedges. Then on a visit to Manassas I whipped up a personalized label for the back and added the solid blue to bind the edges. </div>
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Long walks are part of my aspiration every day. It is good to get away from the sewing and in Manassas while I was working on the blue and white wedge's label this image of a local lake surrounded by white asters and blue sky and white clouds becomes a photo equivalent to the blue and white quilt. Guess I didn't get that far away from the project on my long walk seeing the same colors by the lake. </div>
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Last year I got the idea that I wanted to try a quilt top design with curved piecing after focusing on log cabin blocks made with all long strips. I found a pattern for free from Tim Latimer the quilter who blogs about hand quilting in Michigan. Tim is really good and really fast at hand quilting and is always an inspiration for me. I follow his blog <i><b><a href="http://timquilts.com/?s=interplay" target="_blank">Tim Quilts</a></b></i> ( link to the post I used as my guide for this quilt) he does all sorts of quilting projects and on his blog tells how and is very generous <b><i><a href="http://timquilts.com/" target="_blank">Tim Quilts</a></i></b> has new posts about once a week.<br />
I had a collection of fabrics I bought earlier shopping in Manassas at Hancock Fabrics and Joann's with my mom in a matched color way and then I added a little more from my stash. I decided to adjust the block pattern a little for my first repeat pattern curved piecing project. Tim used fat quarters and I had lots more fabric than he did so I added a quarter inch to my the edges of the curves to allow a 1/4 inch along the seam at the edges of the finished blocks. That was the only design change I made. I even used his pattern of quilting stitches for my quilt. but I wasn't as fast as his fast quilting goes. As a matter of fact, I realized once I was into the quilting it was way too much for me. I struggled to get the quilting done all year but finally have it completed it, bound and washed and dried.... Ready to share. It's a throw size 46 x 61 inches. I used black pearl cotton #8 to do the leaf pattern and echo the leaf shapes in the design. <br />
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This was a fun quilt and I loved the resulting quilting patterns but the labor made it something I would simplify for future hand quilting projects. I am grateful to Tim for giving us a good pattern to begin me down the curved piecing pathway. More to come! It's not as hard as you might think if you never did a curve look for help and give it a try once you get the hang of it you won't look back. </div>
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Frederick Nunleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413058642344429632noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359763197583801690.post-91088754616375690412015-10-07T10:48:00.001-04:002015-10-07T10:48:28.304-04:00a new journalToday I want to tell you about and show a new patchwork piecing project this month. It is a cover for a coptic bound journal. I use them to write in and sketch ideas for new quilting projects. Last year I made a pair of patchwork improvisation blocks using some of the scraps from my big <u>Orange Explains It</u> quilt scraps. Compared to the regular book cloth covered coptic bound journal this was clearly fun and interesting to do but extra time intensive. That is because to make a cover with fabric one has to add a paper backing to the cloth patchwork before gluing to the book cover boards. Double the glue work but doubly unique in the final book covers.<br />
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After I completed this first book I gave it to Keith for Christmas and figured I would make myself another one in the winter. It never happened until now but recently I finished up a big quilt top using two tones of orange and had scraps that were long strips and by adding them together and cutting them I got a new type of scrappy quilt block for my next book. See images below of the new cover...</div>
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Inside this new journal I added some wrapping paper we bought last year at that great paper source store in Georgetown with various feathers printed for my end pages. I like to use a heavy Strathmore paper for my fly pages in this case darker orange. I also had orange beeswax coated linen binder's thread to finish up the orange theme. While sewing I decided not to add glass beads to the spine but to use a soft paper and insert a little yellow-green or chartreuse over the two center folios for some colorful interest on the spine. </div>
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In the back ground there you can see the big copy press I have on my studio desk. That is how I get the paper and glued fabric to stay pressed flat before and after I apply it to the book cover boards. It's a very heavy tool but a great one to have. </div>
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A friend on Instagram asked about the needle I use. It is a bend binder's needle in this case one that I bent myself a trick I learned at my first class in Coptic book making with <b><i><a href="http://danielessig.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Essig</a></i></b> years ago at <b><i><a href="http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/" target="_blank">Pyramid Atlantic Art Center</a></i></b> when it used to be in Riverdale, MD. We plan to have a fabric block printing workshop for quilters at the current Pyramid Atlantic home in Silver Spring, MD next January 2016 for DC Modern Quilt Guild members. So here are a few images of my process as I built the book. </div>
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I don't know about other quilters but I am finding I am starting many projects and having fun with each but not finishing them up as fast as I did a year or two ago when I first got started. The excitement of showing and telling about new projects at DC Modern Quilt Guild really drove my desire to finish up and get them ready for the show and tells. Now I am working on more complexity in my designs and taking longer to do the hand quilting and sometimes the piecing. Then there is that Instagram share thing. I find sharing a picture or two on Instagram has taken the place of writing blog posts to fore fill my desire to share as I go... Today I am stepping back from that because I know there are folks like the lady I met in Walmart this week who don't get on Instagram and would like to see some of the work in more detail that a slide show on my iPhone screen. Insert smiley face here. How the world keeps changing faster than I can keep pace with since the information age took off some 25 years ago.<br />
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This is my tumbling block improvisational nine patch hanging on the design wall as I was trying to sort out how to join them together and what order to place them in for the finished top. It's together now in a different order with a magenta sashing joining them all up. I really enjoyed working on the English paper piecing at the center of these blocks from my own paper pieces. I decided to try some smaller ones for somewhere in the project. Now I have bunch of those completed and ready to use once the quilting is closer to completed. </div>
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English paper pieced tumbling blocks tiny one inch size and the three inch size used for the center of my medallion blocks for size reference as they hang on the felt with yellow pins holding them in place.</div>
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below is a shot of me sewing the big blocks 25 inch square together on my small Featherweight Singer sewing machine. Vintage Singer 1937 is a delight to use. </div>
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Now that it is together and basted to the batting and backing a solid red! It's laid over my standing hoop to begin the large stitch hand quilting in the center medallion with contrasting colors to stand out. </div>
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So this is just one report there is so many opportunities to write that slip by but keeping the story short helps make it more do-able for me considering I can't put down the iPhone and set Instagram aside as often as I would like. </div>
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This project is on track and the earlier one I began back in January of this year is slowly coming closer to a finish. It's my tea leaf project with way too much detail in the quilting for my neck and hand problems to be done quickly. Still we are learning to slow down in this era of hurry hurry hurry and enjoy the simple pleasure of slowly putting the needle to fabric and working out some of our rush to a place of pride and centered calm. </div>
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Next week off to Ipswich Mass. to hang at the river's edge and explore.</div>
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This past weekend I packed up my quilting tools and two projects to attend the DC Modern Quilt Guild's meeting in Falls Church, VA for an all day sewing meeting.<br />
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I usually don't get much sewing done at the meetings because there are so many interesting people to meet and visit with that I often spend my time that way. This time I decided to take along two projects one to complete for show and tell and the other to catch some simple sewing time after that first project was done. I have been building these blocks row by row or border on border for a while now. I have the steps worked out in my head and I thought this would be easy to complete one at the meeting. Just cut the square in two and add it to the center medallion for a finish, then there will be just one more row to add and the block should be finished. Well best laid plans didn't account for the simple self assured speed with which I screwed it up.<br />
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I built two blocks with the intention of cutting them on the 45º angle and making them triangles to frame the center diamond medallion in a block after careful planning this worked on the first side I cut at home and attached but at the meeting I got going to quickly and I didn't consider that there was a right and a wrong 45º direction. I found out just about as fast as I cut my block in half. I did it the wrong way through my two HST that were meant to be the pinnacle of the triangle not the corners cut in two. Insert frowning face here.<br />
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Once I got over that surprise I was glad I brought my Denyse Schmidt improvisational blocks and fabric to work on and that was the work I did the rest of the day.<br />
Stopped into a favorite grass fed beef restaurant "Elevation Burger" down the street. Its just a few blocks down the street from our historic Church meeting rooms,<br />
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Hope we get to use this Church in Falls Church again for our group is big and we need a lot of space and tables, chairs electric outlets and it doesn't hurt to have a kitchen and open room on floors for layouts... So many needs for so many quilters I am beginning to think that this organization needs paid staff but then the price would be so high the numbers would shrink. Well that is a round about way of saying thanks to our administrators who did a great job with this weeks meeting and the big Denyse Schmidt events two weeks ago! Thanks to each of you on the board.<br />
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This is the church that that gives Falls Church, VA. it's name. The original was built in 1764 during the colonial era of Virginia. The grave stone there by the enormous Oak tree was installed in 1808 and there were others further to the left under the shade of this great tree even older than this one. </div>
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Now it's time to get back to work on my blocks for the Tumbling Block applique medallions quilt for this week I want to finish up the last block of nine and begin putting them together to quilt. </div>
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<br />Frederick Nunleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413058642344429632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359763197583801690.post-75141335384919078152015-06-08T19:03:00.001-04:002015-06-08T19:05:46.952-04:00Denyse Schmidt's Pure Improv Workshop: the experience. <br />
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Today I want to record a very exciting experience that deserves more than a passing flash of colorful pictures and hash-tag (#) labels. My <b><i><a href="http://dcmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Washington DC Modern Quilt Guild</a></i></b> hired the renowned designer <a href="http://www.dsquilts.com/" target="_blank"><b><i>Denyse Schmidt</i></b></a> to come give us an improvisational quilt piecing workshop class. It was months in the planning for the guild to pull this off and I have to thank all those board members who made it happen so flawlessly. There were no glitches and it really was a lot of fun as well as a really memorable experience. 20 quilters and one instructor in a big long room where we each had a table to ourselves, so luxurious for a guild gathering. Rented class room was at G Street Fabrics in Seven Corners.<br />
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The project we undertook after getting introductions done see in this image where we told Denyse a little about our quilting experience and what we hoped to get out of this class. Next we got instructions how to begin a quilt block called Shoeman's Puzzle a vintage block from her last book. We made templates and cut our two tones of fabric into the triangles and then assembled them as a traditional quilt block is made. </div>
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Anjeanette cutting her first blocks pieces using the templates we all made. </div>
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Then we had to do the same block free hand cut and sewn. It was done with a slightly larger square of fabric to allow for a bit of less accurate seam sewing on our hand cut blocks. It was hard to tell the difference once we all made our 4 blocks two each from the two techniques. </div>
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For fabrics I used a nice orange and a red-orange as my two colors. They are close in value and intensity of hue as well as tone. These colors were not a surprise to anyone, given the reputation I have. The next step was to begin the improvisational block making. We were allowed to cut the triangles from a slightly bigger square to allow for shortened blocks in the end but we had to take care not to anticipate what the end result would be. Denyse told us not to try to save fabric she said just cut, sew and see what came out! Working without trying to see the end before we began or during the process of making. That was very hard for an experienced quilter wants to get the most out of each cut of precious fabric and one wants to be "in control" start to finish. This is the challenge of the day: let go and don't try to be in control of the results until you get to the finishing process. It sounds like it is all in your head and it is. To let things happen without knowing what the result will be feels uncomfortable but as Denyse tried to explain that is when some of the most delightful things happen in improvisational quilting.<br />
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You can see everyone behind me was working hard and deep in the making process time just flew by when it was time for lunch we were well on our way towards beginning. After lunch together in the room out of Panera Boxes we set back to work with about two hours left to sew and a half hour for critique and discussion. Denyse was there all through the class ready to answer any questions and I had a few. Mostly worry about how the end result was going to fit together or something like that... my felt wall fell once and she kindly helped me rehang it and put the blocks back up. </div>
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As we got a nice selection of blocks made and began looking a little at how to assemble them on the design wall the question of came up of adding a third fabric. It was suggested we try to stick with just the two for most of the day but when we felt we needed a change we should begin to try out a third fabric. For me the beautiful colors of red and purple Melinda was using just down the row were calling out to my oranges. I was dying to get a little bit of that purple into my composition and I was getting sick of red and oranges, sick to death and I felt blinded by the colors because they were so much the same. I decided it was time to cut a nice patterned hot pink-magenta fabric square and work it in with the red-orange first. I got two made and began the second pair and the bell went off and we had to Stop for our final discussion critique. I slipped in one more before the talking really got going. </div>
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Melinda's purple red combo behind Denyse was near my station.</div>
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Before my design wall fell for the second time it looked like this... thanks to Cathy who's work station was beside mine and took a snap of this arrangement. </div>
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Jamie's new born came with her to this must not be missed workshop. I never heard a peep out of her and I know her mom was really glad to be there in spite of the stress and dad came came along to help hold her while mom sewed! </div>
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Gray and white gauze was Jenny's combination and she began adding a little oxford shirt blue a subtle shift in hue but the value is the same! Very nice. </div>
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I got an autograph on my Denyse Schmidt book! The cover is orange by the way and I was drawn to it in a bookstore in Colonial Williamsburg year before last and asked for it as a gift! It's a great inspiration and meeting Denyse and hearing her story later at the slide lecture she gave made me realize we have a lot of similar interests in the arcane crafts of past, she learned stone letter carving and I went into hand book binding and letterpress printing. She was drawn to Appalachian quilting traditions, music and folk dances are some other areas of creativity I love like she told us she does too. She even participated in NYC East Village performance which I did back in the 1980's as well so if I ever get the chance it would be fun to see who she knows I know from that era as well. Whatever I learned late was great because I could tell when I read her book we liked history and the folk culture of American Appalachian people. It's funny that she is working in the same city in Connecticut where I first saw the Yo yo coverlet that inspired me to make my own when I was twelve years old... I would love to share that story with her but a day of quilt improv block making was a real treat.<br />
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In conclusion I wanted to say that this was a good class. I felt like I was back in college again because we had a lot of time to work with our materials and there was lots of professional attention and support from our instructor. Denyse gave us just the right amount of challenge and freedom, she added a dose of confidence: she would be there to answer any and all questions. She pushed us to use this time to try something admittedly uncomfortable but that could give us a lot of exciting new possibilities if we let go of control to allow accidents to show us new ways to use patterns. </div>
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I realized when I got home and laid on my bed which is next to my current improvised quilt design that I was seeing all these finished tumbling blocks (see 5 below) in a whole new way! I realized I was perhaps being too tight and even though I am having a blast fussing over the colors, patterned prints and symmetry there are so many possibilities I had overlooked or not allowed to happen. So there are a few more tumbling blocks to build to make a complete quilt but now with my new education and renewed excitement about the process I have permission to let some of that tightness go and see where it takes me. I also have a great new Orange quilt to work with in the coming months.</div>
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I tried my best to keep the blinds closed and leave them in peace but it was an ill fated spot for many reasons. Not long after this photo the mate was devoured by a hawk which Keith saw as he was coming home one afternoon. That evening we listened as the survivor called but got no familiar reply... and eventually abandoned the nest and it's two white eggs. </div>
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In the following days we watched for the lone dove out the windows. Out back I found that it found a new partner who was very attentive, they preened together in the cedar trees. </div>
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Then they started a new nest in the tree about ten feet from the old nest still holding the eggs abandoned and undisturbed. </div>
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It's close but not easy to photograph, the drama continues in that area each day. I took a short video of them early in the process of building that new nest. </div>
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In the backyard I hung the usual house wren house for the wrens I heard singing it's mating call back in early April. Now that house is full of twigs and when I went out to sit in the garden I noticed a mate has joined the male bird who built the nest and began adding her own grassy bed on top of the twigs. </div>
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Look closely you will see she has a fine sprig of grass in her beak and the big twigs hang out the bottom thru the air vents at the base of the house.</div>
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Behind me in the choke cherry tree which is beginning to flower another nest! This year, lets hope the cats or raccoons don't attack it, on a branch another dove is nesting and keeping a watchful eye on me in the garden. </div>
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It was a great spot that some robins built in last spring and raised a brood of three orange breasted babies. </div>
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Now all we need is a bunch of tent caterpillars to spin their nests in the native choke cherry tree to provide food to these babies that will soon arrive looking extremely hungry! </div>
<br />Frederick Nunleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413058642344429632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359763197583801690.post-74521835794585726402015-04-26T10:56:00.001-04:002015-04-26T10:58:15.069-04:00Walking the bluebell trail along Bull Run<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I went for a walk at the beginning of the bluebell season the native flowers that are so many shades of purple to blue and even white in some rare cases growing in the flood plain where they get watered a lot this time of year. Bull run is the creek that passes under the old stone bridge in the Manassas Battlefield park where this bluebell trail begins. There are lots of different native flowering plants that poke up their heads up in these early spring weeks between freezing cold and the forest's leaves open and blocking the light that falls warming the earth below. All these native flowers are a delight and I have gone to the trail a few times this year to check on the bluebells progress.<br />
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Blue bells are the largest and most dramatic of the native flowers in the woods. They stand about a foot high and grow in clumps forming a carpet of lavender blue and fresh green on the edges of the creek in the low flood plain areas. <br />
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The flowers are difficult to photograph as the eye sees them, the blue really jumps out of those green areas but I haven't found a way to show that the same way we see.<br />
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Mixed in the flowering forest floor are little spotted leaves and bright yellow flowers the Trout Lilies.<br />
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Near by and a little earlier were the Dutchman's Breeches a cousin to the bleeding hearts so many of us love in our own gardens. Spring beauties also are abundant along the trail and are very short beside the taller flowers but native bees depend on their abundant early blooms.<br />
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On a sunny day the best places to take the wildflower photos is where shade falls from the tree's trunks so the high contrast is reduced and the colors show up. </div>
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Tree frogs are singing to their mates all over the wooded areas along the creek's edges.<br />
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On my hike, I met a group of three Park Rangers riding on horseback who said hello and continued down the trail towards the bridge. As it was free day they didn't ask for a pass or anything but greet me and keep on walking... </div>
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This trail comes to a point where the creek banks are too steep to continue at the edge of Bull Run and the flora change as the trail turns up towards the wooded hill and an evergreen area. Mosses and a few ferns as well as one of my favorites the bluet a tiny blue flower with four petals that is sky blue. My photo blew out the color and made them look white. Found in the damp shadows they are so small you have to hunt for them at the trial edge not far from the mossy areas that are bright green this time of year. </div>
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Moss sends up it's red stemmed flowers. </div>
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Wintergreen's leaves are still showing deep in the woods </div>
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Pine trees and hemlocks are at the top of the hill and the trail edges are covered with fallen leaves in addition to the red pine needles</div>
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At the top of the hill the trail opens out to a huge field and runs along the edge for a ways where the wind has blown over many trees but reveals the flowering red bud tree seeking light it's a native that is wide spread and domesticated for home gardens as well as roadside when you drive through the country. This area gets lots of sun and wind and the old Virginia Red Cedars and scrub pines take a beating as well as bleach out to a fine silvery color when they fall. </div>
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Back to the bluebells... and if you look closely you might see the spring beauties little white flowers near by in these photos. </div>
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Here I saw a pond that is collected rainwater 50 yards from the creek's edge in the flood plain area. Can you make out the green topped with bluebells? The National Parks are a wonderful experience when every you have time to go and enjoy a visit with nature. The bluebells are a great time to go but I can't remember ever going when I didn't enjoy visiting with the plants and creatures of the parks. I am thankful for the conservationist movement that created these amazing natural retreats from our over developed communities. </div>
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<br />Frederick Nunleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413058642344429632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359763197583801690.post-46140014610931496892015-04-09T11:04:00.000-04:002015-04-09T11:04:02.746-04:00Quilts on display<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Yo Yo coverlet completed in 2011, the full story here: <a href="http://orangeexplainsitall.blogspot.com/2011/07/complete-at-last-1967-2011.htmlhttp://orangeexplainsitall.blogspot.com/2011/07/complete-at-last-1967-2011.html" target="_blank"><b><i>Yoyo Story </i></b></a></td></tr>
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Last week I was invited to show my quilts in<i style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://mara-home.com/" target="_blank">Mara Home</a> </i>a Contemporary furnishings store. The quilts and I were first discovered by Vincent my new friend, the yarn bomber who got me interested in crocheting again... and then the store owner and artist Erin Mara sealed the deal to show them in her store. They are giving my quilts an opening event this week Friday evening as announced on the <a href="http://mara-home.com/" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">web site</a><b style="font-style: italic;"> </b>earlier this week:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Opening: <span>The Fine Art of Fiber - Contemporary Quilts by Frederick Nunley</span></strong><br /><span>Opening reception on Friday, April 10, 6:30 - 8:30pm. Meet Frederick and enjoy his spectacular creations. They are works of art for your walls or bed. </span></strong></span><br />
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It feels like ages since I wrote a blog post and well maybe it is but everything takes off in the spring time and there is that little pocket computer that draws me into a black hole of Instagram fun which circumvents the previous goal of being a blogger who is posting stories as they happen.<br />
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My life feels so full of good stuff I feel guilty sometimes wondering when the dream is going to end. That doesn't mean there aren't stresses and worries but I like to focus on the joy and delights and marginalize the other end of the spectrum here on my blog. I also like to use this place to make a record of what has been good and beautiful in our lives here on 10th St. NE in Washington, DC. With the long winter we had and the snows and cold spells I had almost forgotten the joys of spring would be coming along. It was especially odd to have yet another snow storm on the first day of spring but we are fortunate to have warmth in the city this time of year that pushes the earliest flower right up through the cold snowy ground and reminds us that it is time for things to change. The sun comes up in a different spot than it has done in a while making the crystals in our windows cast bright dancing spectrum's around the room. It happens every time we have a sunny day but this time of year it is more directly shinning through the window and that makes it more intense. It was an inspiration for the bowl I made and donated to the Smith Healing Arts Center's annual funds raiser show of 125 artists work. I was invited by my former boss George Hemphill to submit an Alchemical Vessel for this years exhibition. I had a bit of a hard time digging up a idea for a vessel that could be made like my quilts with fabric and thread but in the end there was a great little trick with ropes, thin strips of fabric and long hours twisting, sewing and building a fabric bowl. Much like a clay coil pot only the glue wasn't clay but thread, its a technique used to make rugs too I believe. I started out with a small bowl to try one way then built a second beginning that seemed more pleasing to my eye with less exterior threads showing. Orange was the start up color and then the rainbow fell into place ring after ring...<br />
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In the end I added a foot and a label to the bottom and finished with a little fabric hook to hang it on the wall then whisked it off to the gallery with my statement to be photographed and installed and added to the catalog. Each bowl will bring a $150 for a ticket to the guests which they get to select according to the first come first serve ticket purchases. But you can also go see all the bowls Tuesday-Saturdays at the gallery on U.Street NW near the corner of 17th. from March 27th through May 22nd. The benefit is May 1st. for more information on getting one of these great art bowls check out the <a href="http://smithcenter.org/arts-healing/joan-hisaoka-art-gallery.html" target="_blank">Joan Hisaok Healing Arts gallery's</a> website. </div>
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I went by yesterday and really enjoyed the show and began wishing I had a ticket. The glossy photo catalog will be available next week! </div>
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I have been putting off the smart phone transition everyone else has done for years because of the costs which seemed much higher than a land line and less reliable during emergencies. I recall that during the events of Sept. 11, 2001 here in Washington DC that the news reported that people trying to use their smart cell phones overloaded the system towers and couldn't get through to anyone. I thought that was a great reason not to buy into the expensive programs that I didn't understand. The pushy advertising also turned me off to the trend. Eventually however I got a "pay as you go" phone to carry in an emergency with me in the car or walking around.<br />
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It became clear that people no longer would stop on the side of the road if you broke down to offer help or a ride to a pay phone and public pay phones were disappearing or broken everywhere. Since I drive an older car, the thought of being stuck was what got me to buy into the Star Trek style flip phone. With this fairly inexpensive toy-phone I enjoyed having a way to contact people when I was meeting them out in the city and felt confidant I could and did get help from AAA when I needed. Over the years Verizon landline division (they are separate companies now) jacked the price of land line service up higher and higher without adding any new features, only over taxing my meager income, while the Verizon wireless offered so many things including constant access to the Internet and everything that comes with it so the big stumbling block was to take the leap to the new device and to have enough money to buy the first phone. This past Christmas when asked what I wanted I decided it was time to be an iPhone 6 user and asked for that as my favored gift of the season. So the culture shift came for me when the new year began...<br />
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I sketch on metro rides to and from downtown and at some point in the last 15 years we began to notice people were using these smart cell phones everywhere all the time. Checking out of the boring ride home or downtown they sit with all their attention directed at the hand held device. They made easy targets for sketches as they didn't move much and they didn't look up at what I was doing. That was kind of fun but often the hands moved a lot making illustrating them more challenging. I still prefer a rider with a book or a newspaper or just sleeping.<br />
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I grew more interested in these smart phones when social media began pulling bloggers away from their blog posts and over to platforms of image sharing that did not admit old fashioned users of desktop or laptop computers to see nor post images. I was stuck writing my blog posts to share stories and images in a more thoughtful way which might be considered literate next to the new ways. <br />
That opened up eventually and now you can look at Instagram images and posts via those vintage household devices but it's not as immediate as having it all in the palm of your hand. Clearly smart phones also have a camera now which makes sharing experiences instantly very simple, almost <i>de rigueur </i>but from the other side of the metro car it isn't clear what all the excitement is about and how it holds on to the rider's interest so completely.<br />
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Sometimes I see people just holding their smart phones not using them for anything but clutching it like a pair of gloves that one doesn't want to misplace when facing cold weather...<br />
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Others zone out while listening to music, pod casts and the new books on "tape" that are read to you out loud by some skilled actor; great for us dyslexics.<br />
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Often people are just flipping through this and that, emails, song choices or even talking to people while they are on the go. This can be very disruptive on a quiet metro car or walking down the street its queer to hear someone talking and not know if they are addressing you or some unseen person over their private airwaves.<br />
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They use them standing up and seated and walking around even while driving cars and buses or in some sad cases we have seen on the news while driving trains... This fellow all suited up held his in his groin covering up his device but equally focused on the text or what ever he was connecting with on his smart cell phone. <br />
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Children have them too filling time rather than looking around at the world they daydream in other places. This year research has been presented and more is being done on the impact of so much time looking at a screen and the lack of downtime or what we called being bored. It seems that being bored is a valuable time for your brain to be creative! So the researchers suggested turning those ever present devices of entertainment and distraction off once in a while and just daydreaming the old fashioned way to fill time. </div>
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Anyway Keith and I joined the 21st century now that the cost is less for more but I am trying to be mindful of how I use the new smart phone. Lots of pictures to share and lots of new applications to learn to use and connect up with others. The world is different with all these connections and some are great others like instant news of a beheading and murderous world unrest and misery less so but it's the new world we live in. I suppose if there is a disaster that I can use text messaging to contact my dear ones. Email worked from my desktop in 2001 when the cell telephones did not; we just have to keep a hard wire connection to some communication device at home now to feel safe. </div>
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Now sadly I do less sketching on metro trips but I was brave enough to snap a random person's portrait while riding downtown last week. I adore this lady and her funny hat which was actually about as funny as my own. If I had a sketch book and pen I would have drawn her without a doubt... maybe I still can from the iPhone photograph. </div>
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Saturday I was lucky to be on a DC Modern Quilt Guild field trip with a few of my many quilting friends to the Daughters of the American Revolution or DAR museum. We went to see the current exhibition titled <a href="http://eyeonelegance.dar.org/" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Eye on Elegance Early Quilts of Virginia and Maryland</a><b style="font-style: italic;">. </b>The weather was perfect for a museum day too gray to feel bad about being inside and just warm and dry enough to make getting out easy. </div>
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The quilts are fantastic intricate works of art which retain their vibrant colors in many cases. They are all shown in amazing detail on the web gallery where you can learn lots of details about each quilt and the maker and zoom in to look at the details from the comfort of your home desk or lap top computers. Note you need to let the images load up fully to see the details on your computer screen but it doesn't take long. <br />
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This is a copy that Jane is working on and she brought it along to compare the results of her work to the original. We love the results and are encouraging her to keep going. Only 6 more rows to go it looks like to me to finish the whole top. </div>
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An Ohio Star quilt pattern one of the few quilts that had a design we see still in quilting but this one was remarkable for the fine quilting details. In the top and bottom hourglasses they used a double line of tiny stitches to create that interesting visual texture to contrast the diamonds in the four solid white blocks. Detail shot below. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcdltj6JowMS73orZJA91iKOo-D_63Jx-m2h_5vDZzg5Bd6xNdh6lhV_5hxzYH0BjQ-SoiJiUxNR1Kex3beCrSmG7L6JWziJSjFhyphenhyphenYdhzdMlXmyIHJSJfY8WTpV6xL3ld7ROZMCgTO_W6U/s1600/DAR+Quilt+IMG_0836.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcdltj6JowMS73orZJA91iKOo-D_63Jx-m2h_5vDZzg5Bd6xNdh6lhV_5hxzYH0BjQ-SoiJiUxNR1Kex3beCrSmG7L6JWziJSjFhyphenhyphenYdhzdMlXmyIHJSJfY8WTpV6xL3ld7ROZMCgTO_W6U/s1600/DAR+Quilt+IMG_0836.jpg" height="320" width="320" /></a></div>
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This was one that I really got a kick out of and it turns out not only is it made of wools and corduroy but it is made from Men's clothing scraps by the wife of a descendant German trained tailor using a German technique called inlaid patchwork. No quilting stitching in this quilt that I could see but the hand stitching of the pieces shows. Some top stitching adding details like hearts and flowers as felt appliqué. 1790-1810 are the dates given so a very old quilt to be made of wool we know that moths love to eat...</div>
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This block of fruits and watermelon with a blue knife and birds caught my eye. I love the blues and reds in these quilt blocks from the Album quilts of Maryland. </div>
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Here if you blow it up is a fancy lady riding a white horse lower left of the image and these flowers in the cornucopia vase are embellished with top stitched embroidery. </div>
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This is a screen shot from the museum showing the entire quilt I couldn't get in the museum. White and a rich pink printed fabric and a center medallion appliqued... </div>
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The part that I loved in this quilt was the actual quilting which was very fine shown in my detail shot below. </div>
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The second screen capture image of this center medallion quilt with the vine and these great applique grass blades surrounding the edges. It also had very fine quilting all over the top.<br />
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After we enjoyed talking about our favorite quilts and investigating them we went to lunch all 18 of us got individual lunch treats at Cozi on 17th St. NW which was about all that is open on Saturdays in that area around the White-house. The usual places there are crowded during the week with government workers so Sat. is a good time to go see the show and metered parking right around the museum was plentiful believe it or not.<br />
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I enjoyed this field trip with my quilting friends and I wouldn't mind going back to look again. Maybe I should undertake a copy quilt top like Jane so I have a good reason to keep going back, it's open through September 5th 2015.<br />
More information:<br />
<b><i><a href="http://www.dar.org/museum" target="_blank">http://www.dar.org/museum </a></i></b><br />
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