Right And Below The Needle: 8 Stitches In Five Different Threads, All In The Wrong Place. -____________________-

Right and below the needle: 8 stitches in five different threads, all in the wrong place. -____________________-

I wish my WIP photos were more interesting/aesthetic/intriguing, but hey. As long as the finished pieces have those qualities I won't complain too much.

Maaaan, I really need to get back to practicing free-motion quilting.

Quilting Circles - Ruler Work

I am having so MUCH FUN with the Circles on Quilts templates by Westalee Design by Sew Steady.  There are so many possibilities.

Two Circle on Quilts sets include four sizes that can quilt concentric circles from 2-inches to 12-inches at ½ inch increments.

The templates rotate from a pivot point. A metal tack is placed underneath so the template rotates from from the same axis point to create concentric circles.  Watch short video demo below.

Using the Circles on Quilts is so EASY. With the right free-motion tools: thread, needles, supreme slider, a machine capable of free-motion quilting and gloves, all you need is Westalee’s ½-inch ruler foot and the templates to make perfect circles WITHOUT marking.

A 10-inch and 9.5 circle made the outer 1/4inch channel and a 6-inch and 5-inch circle created the inner ½-inch channel. Both channels created space for a beautiful swirl of feather plumes. A 2-inch circle in the center and the 5-inch circle encase the swirl design.

So, what do you think? Are you ready to try the templates?

Good luck with the firings, it looks amazing. :O

Coming to life

I'm running a workshop (co-designed with colleague, who is a star and also did most of the prep whilst I was busy talking about the Stitched Iliad at UCL's Homeric Summer School) this weekend at the festival as well. I'll post photos from that later.

Book 1 & 2 exhibited together at the Beyond the Borders festival.

Timaeus 1: tetrahedron prototype.

I’m the kind of person who’s too impatient to wait for there to be good daylight and make sure there’s no crap in the background for me to take photos and post them, so here are some photos taken at night, under artificial light, with some bags in the background (my office is my studio is my lounge. Mess is inevitable).

Anyway, somewhat delightfully ironic to call this a prototype, since prototype can mean both the first thing you make which you then go on to perfect, or the thing from which all future models are derived: almost like a platonic form. The form which is to be perfected in future models and the perfect form from which all later (imperfect) models will be derived are represented by the same word.

Why is that ironic? Because a tetrahedron is one of five Platonic solids (tetrahedron, hexahedron [more commonly known as a cube], octohedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron): it's a platonic form. It's the prototype for all tetrahedrons. Except I'm hoping that the next ones I make will be more perfect that this. My prototype/Platonic form is imperfect and rough. But it is still the first manifestation of the basic concept from which all the others will be built.

I will (hopefully) explain more about the Timaeus (A Platonic dialogue where these solids are mentioned) as I make more and expand/explore/refine.