Long story short, last summer I joined the Patchwork Gilde Deutschland. Because all the classes and meetings happen in Düsseldorf, and there aren’t any regional subgroups within an hour of Freising, that basically means I get a quarterly magazine and access to some online forums. Still, that’s more connection than I’ve had in years. (Yes, I know how sad that sounds.)
The annual UFO Challenge seemed like a good way to kick my own ass a bit, and so far it has worked. You know, of course, that an UFO is an UnFertiges Objekt…
The TWR> Swap Quilt
In 2001 I was an active user of the telnet BBS ISCA, and hosted a fabric swap with some members of The Womens Room>, including both quilters and complete newbies. IIRC, two or three of the women finished theirs, and one of the newbs went on to be quite prolific. At least two of the women have since passed away. I used the fabrics for two quilts; one was completed and went on to live with someone I have lost contact with.
The other one I stopped quilting at about 75% done.
I don’t know why. The quilting wasn’t blue ribbon quality, but it was better than I can do now, on a “better” machine. I spent about a week trying to get the free-motion foot to work with the original shiny thread, then gave up and used plain cotton thread. It’s not really noticeable unless you get your nose right up in it (I tell myself, anyway).
The matching fabric for the binding had long since been used for something else, but I was able to find a green cotton at the traveling fabric show and finish up with a day to spare.
Chicago 2004
The number for December was 5, which was a picture of the Chicago skyline I painted on fabric when I lived in Cedar Falls, sometime after I took a course with Susan Shie in 2004, at a really lovely B&B in Noblesville. Then I moved three times in a year.
It was supposed to be hand-stitched and beaded, but I’m not really excited about the subject these days, so I tried some machine stitching.
The process wasn’t too terrible and it looked good. As I was finishing off the raw edges with a facing, I was bored and annoyed by the project. This is who I was, not who I am.
You see it too, right? It needs an alien dogfight. Specifically, the one that took place over Nürmberg in 1561, because the engraving is in the public domain. Anhänger der Prä-astronautik sagen ja.
The original woodcut was a little too cluttered, so I edited out some of the rod shapes, but in general I am pleased with the image. The facing is a little puffy for my taste, I’m not sure what happened there.
Stay tuned for January’s UFO, a Christmas log cabin.
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