Well, here it is. The next BIG quilt! Exciting isn't it? HA!
It took me a couple of hours & much rearranging just to get the paper up on the wall. Now I have to start drawing it out. I have it drawn on a regular sheet of paper, & will start by projecting just the center of the drawing on to the paper, bu I think I'll freehand the rest, once I get the center finished, just because I think it'll be easier that way. I wish I had a real classroom overhead projector for this part, it would be simple with one of those. Oh well, you can't have everything! It will probably take me a year or 2 to get this one done. I have a couple of other projects that I need to get finished first, including my dear Michelle's wedding quilt! Since she was married , what it is now? 2 1/2 years ago? Then there's the baby quilt, for the baby who will be 2 soon! Boy am I behind!Sigh........
Better get back to work. Speaking of work, I have to go back on Tuesday ..bummer.
I started out the day by stringing beads for my reading glasses. I was getting tired of looking for them, so I made the idiot strings to wear them around my neck. I did them in 2 different colors, one for each pair of glasses.
Then this little piece made itself. It started with the little black sqaure of silk fabric. I played with a Clorox Bleach pen, to see how it worked. Afterward I walked away & forgot about it. Later I found it dry, & I rinsed it out, then started layering it with other fabrics.
There are several layers of my hand painted silks, & some Angelina fibers, & some painted dryer sheets, all sandwiched in under the sheer silks. The background fabric was a raw silk that I painted about a year ago.
This was a fun & spontaneous way to work. I listened to several movies while making it. All with fun music. Newsies, Phantom of the Opera (I cried again watching it, I always feel sorry for the phantom). Also O Brother How Art Thou! & Holes.
