tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157234702024-03-14T01:10:47.819-04:00Nellie's NeedlesNellie Bass Durand is an artist who quilts in Tennessee and Michigan, or wherever she happens to be.Nellie's Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12468773469685787840noreply@blogger.comBlogger715125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15723470.post-11596237039434362282014-05-22T21:10:00.000-04:002014-05-22T23:40:20.886-04:00Four More Violet Pieces<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">added to my wild flower series ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All these had begun as a single whole piece. It was the size of the one donated to the charity auction that I wrote about in my last blog post. At the end of two full days work, <b>I did NOT like it at all!</b> I went to bed with the thought of closing up my studio for good ... thinking maybe I had "lost it" and should consider going back to making functional quilts. For me the designing process to make those is less complex and frustrating to get satisfactory results.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But the next day I had a different thought ... <b>cut it up!</b> It's the woods in the distance that I fell in love with at the beginning of this series. It's the part I liked best in the first one. Particularly at the beginning of building that piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> beginning of<b> Violets #1</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So ... it was cut in half. I allowed a bit of foreground space for patches of flowers. Pieces were cut from the right and left sides for the sake of the composition, I worked on the woods a bit more, added the violets to the foreground, and then bordered it with a frame made from the piece that had been cut from the center of the frame for Violets #1. Three green skeleton leaves were added for balance in the bottom section of the frame. Here's the result ... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Wild Flower Series - Violets #2</b> (17"x 12.5")</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The bottom section of that cut apart piece had a real birch bark piece. This was my main consideration for how to size the next</span> <span style="font-size: large;">picture in this series. The leaves had been sewn in place on the original so that was also given thought. I chose to use the perspective of "bending down close to see the violets" in this one. It's bordered with what had been cut away from the center of the frame for Violets #2.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Wild Flower Series - Violets #3 (13"x 8")</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well ... now I had the quilted center that had been cut away from the frame of the above piece</span>. <span style="font-size: large;">This prompted me to stitch together the two sections cut from the sides of the woods in #2</span> <span style="font-size: large;">to create this vignette to fit within it. Just a bit more work and it became </span><span style="font-size: large;">my favorite in this whole violet series. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Wild Flower Series - Violets #4 (5.5"x 8")</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was definitely back in the groove and happy to be in the studio by this time ... that being a few days later. The previous small piece made me fall in love with making art again. Composing this</span> <span style="font-size: large;">one from the last section of what had been "cut up" came easy</span>. <span style="font-size: large;">My</span> <span style="font-size: large;">perspective on this one is "I can almost smell those blossoms."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wild Flower Series - Violets #5 (9"x 8")</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These four pieces that were intended to be a single large one are destined to the gallery in Michigan, Good Goods, for their special 25th anniversary exhibition in mid-June. I've since made two more pieces for this occasion. I'll post about those next.</span></div>
Nellie's Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12468773469685787840noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15723470.post-12155506798246389472014-05-04T00:16:00.000-04:002014-05-04T00:16:00.985-04:00Violets #1<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A year ago my wild flower series was begun with five pieces featuring trillium. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This spring I'm continuing it with violets</span></span>. <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The first was completed today ...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Last years series featured a micro view of the flowers on a woodland floor. I began this new series with a long view of the woods in the distance ...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">How the light filters through the stands of trees in the spring intrigues me. I love the sprinkle of new leaves ... so many of which are yellow and orange and of course, bright yellow green. Here in Tennessee there are Dogwoods blooming in the understory of trees, so they're there, too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A bright green tulle was quilted over that stand of trees and undergrowth in the upper half of the piece while a camouflage printed tulle hold all the bits and pieces of my composition on the bottom half. The log is a piece of actual Birch bark.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Leave shapes and violet petals were cut from disassembled silk flowers. I glued pieces together to form the blossoms. They and the leaves are just laid on the surface in this picture to test the composition. I wanted to present the perspective of leaning down to admire ... and pluck ... a small cluster of these delightful blooms.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here I've captured the leaves with quilting under green tulle. The excess netting was trimmed away close to the stitching. The leaves were then shaded with pastels and defined with paint.</span></span></div>
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cannot tell you why I changed the arrangement of the flowers from how
you see them in the previous photo ... extending their stems above the
clump. I suspect it's how they're suspended from the curve at the top of
their stems that swayed me. I'll revisit that first arrangement for the
next piece in this series. It was at this point I started to think
about the possibility of a border and where the edges of the composition
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">From the beginning it was in the back of my mind to mount this piece on a stretched canvas frame.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">That involves another layer of quilting to hold the finished art to a separate piece of fabric that wraps around and is stapled to the wood frame. I cover those staples and raw edges with Duck tape.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I made this piece specifically for the charity auction, "Art in the Garden" on June 16th to raise funds for Random Acts of Flowers here in Knoxville.</span></span></div>
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Random Acts of Flowers (RAF) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) charity improving
mental health through the power of giving flowers. RAF volunteers
collect donated flowers from weddings, memorial services, florists,
special events, grocery stores and churches – to recycle and repurpose
them into beautiful bouquets for delivery to patients in area hospitals,
nursing homes and hospice care centers. As a recycling “green” charity
run almost entirely by volunteers, Random Acts of Flowers is committed
to nourishing the health of the environment, individuals, and the
community.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">What could be better than for me to create an art piece for them with recycled flowers and leaves plus bits of fabric from other people's quilted projects.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>Go <a href="http://nelliedurand.blogspot.com/search/label/Wild%20Flower%20Series" target="_blank">here</a> to see blog posts about the trillium series.</i></span></span></span></span><br />
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Nellie's Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12468773469685787840noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15723470.post-66227729772308947372014-03-24T22:39:00.002-04:002014-03-24T22:57:15.255-04:00"Smocking: Fabric Manipulation and Beyond" Exhibition<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I'm recently back from a trip to California. One reason for it was to celebrate the opening of this exhibition at the Lacis Museum in Berkeley to which I had gifted most all of the smocked clothing and decorative items I had created.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">There were two big receptions for this show. The first one on March 8th is described in Laci's newsletter as <span style="color: #3d85c6;">"</span></span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>a day LMLT
will long remember. With the coming of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Sarah Douglas, Mimi Ahern</span>
and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nellie Durand</span>,
who hosted a delightful and
lively interview with the many visitors, the future of smocking is
secured, the techniques of fabric manipulation. an invitation to
creativity, demonstrated by the works of these ladies some 35 years ago
and by the works of today as submitted by the contributors to this
exhibit.<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></i></span>"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The discussion session that included</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> questions from the</span> audience was my favorite part. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The exhibition is extensive. This is just a small portion ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Go <a href="http://lacismuseum.org/exhibit/smocking/SlideShow/" target="_blank">here</a> to see a slide show of all the exhibited pieces. That is, all but the smocked dress worn by Anne Hathaway in Les Miserable. That garment is shown in a separate gallery and can be viewed with a museum person, because it is not allowed to be photographed. Otherwise, picture taking is welcome. I enjoyed meeting and talking to the many visitors at this reception as well as the Smocking Arts Guild of America events held during the next week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I was thrilled for this opportunity to be with Sarah and Mimi after not seeing them since I "retired" from teaching and all SAGA activities well over twenty-two years ago. After the reception Sarah and I spent time at Mimi's home. She captured a photo of Sarah and me having a morning chat in her </span>backyard. She's knitting and I'm working on a "crinkle quilt."</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The other purpose of my trip was to visit our younger son's family. With them I saw a lot of the Bay area. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">He, his wife and me above ... me with a grandson on a walk below.</span> It wasn't difficult to take fairly long walks on top of those hills. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I was delighted to spend an afternoon watching my granddaughter play softball ... she's up to bat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I got my feet in the ocean at the beach in Santa Cruz ..,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">and had the opportunity to build a "faery house" with beach debris after a picnic lunch at another beach off Highway #1 on the drive to get there ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It was a day trip that included my nephew from Nashville and his daughters who were visiting California on spring break. A few mornings later his girls and I built this faery house in the terrace garden of my son's house. Both structures are furnished with a table, bed, chair, and of course flowers in the one below. Wish I had taken photos before the roofs and doors were installed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Speaking of terraced gardens, I was delighted to visit the awesome botanical gardens on the hillside above Berkeley ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I had a wonderful time in California. If you plan to visit the Bay area, include a side trip to Lacis. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">This exhibition runs through October 4th and t</span>he shop sells every sort of needlework supply you could possibly imagine, which makes looking through the store very interesting. Here's a quote about the museum by the owner, Jules:<i> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Lacis
Museum of Lace and Textiles<br />
2982
Adeline Street<br />
Berkeley, CA 94703</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i></i></span></blockquote>
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At the beginning of the year I had promised to write about the glass project that kept me busy at the end of last summer. About 50 flowers were constructed from dishes and copper tubing. These are the ones I created to bring home to Tennessee ...</div>
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And here they are in our sculpture garden under the magnolia tree.<br />
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The idea and know-how came from my friend Helen who had given me a flower that she'd created at the end of the summer in 2012. I knew immediately that I had to learn how to make them ... specifically for the metal sculpture garden at our cottage in Michigan.</div>
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I've been enamored of glass mixed with metal sculptures since going to the Dale Chihuly glass installations at the Frederick Meijer Sculpture Gardens in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2010. <i>(To read about that exhibition and see photos go <a href="http://www.wanderingeducators.com/best/traveling/meijer-gardens-chihuly-exhibit.html" target="_blank">here</a>.)</i></div>
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Here's a close-up of one "flower" head made of finds at thrift stores...</div>
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It's composed of a devils egg platter, a pressed crystal bowl and a tea lite candle holder ... with a drawer pull as the center.</div>
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I shopped a lot of thrift stores in Tennessee, North Carolina, Colorado, Michigan, and Wisconsin buying glass ware. There's no way to purchase specific pieces to make a flower. It took buying whatever might possibly work. The fun part was playing with combinations ...</div>
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It was work to drill holes in the center of each piece. I spent quite a few afternoons in Helen's garage using her drill press.<br />
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This is my set-up for assembling a flower ...<br />
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The pillows are for cushioning my hands and the dishes. That also raised them off the table so I could build the stack of dishes onto a long bolt ... the head of which came through the underside of the hole drilled in the stem.<br />
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But first, the stems and leaves had to be made from copper tubing. The 10' long pipes were cut in half for the tall flowers and in thirds for the smaller ones. One end was pounded flat and drilled for the flower heads. The leaves were formed by bending smaller copper tubing into shape. Here's my set up for welding the leaves to the stem with a blow torch.</div>
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Here are some favorite small flowers ...<br />
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The frosted blue piece is a shade for a hanging lamp.<br />
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Most of the drawer pulls in the centers are new. Although, I used quite a few that were saved from the doors and drawers I had replaced over the years.</div>
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I think there will be a separate garden for the flowers made with mostly clear glass.</div>
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I'm thinking the area of mostly beach grass that's tucked behind trees along the shore and sweeps up into the woods below the new deck that was built last summer will showcase them beautifully.</div>
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To view just about all the glass flowers I've created go to my <a href="http://flic.kr/s/aHsjTuVupV" target="_blank">Flickr page</a>. There a few that were gifted before I had a chance to take their pictures.<br />
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<br />Nellie's Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12468773469685787840noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15723470.post-39284587821215875742014-02-23T17:22:00.000-05:002019-05-08T21:17:58.150-04:00Soupcon #1 - Border<div style="text-align: justify;">
This afternoon the border that's part of step #4 for my first Soupcon Quilt Along project got sewn on ...</div>
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The narrow outer borders are cut from a fine Italian cotton with a tiny print that reminded me of the patterning used for men's ties. So that sent me searching for for the tin full of hexagons constructed from my husband's neckties that I made nearly twenty years ago after he had retired ...</div>
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Here they are pinned in place. The actual colors of the silk tie hexagons are a bit more subdued than they appear here. </div>
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...and a close-up so you can see the patterning of the Italian cotton.<br />
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I really like those silk tie hexagons, but I think they're too large. The edges each measure 1 1/4". I think my evenings work will be remaking them so they're 1"... the size of the hexagons that make up shapes in the focal area. Can't wait to get that done!<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>Post Script: A comment made on the Flickr site by one of my fellow participants has given me pause. She observed how the "viewer can look through." Now I see that center panel floating over a dark smoky background. Do I want to go with that or carry on with filling that negative space with the hexagons made from the silk ties. I've spent the evening making all of them smaller. I like the look, but just maybe they'll work better into the next step Karen gives us at the end of this next week. So this is it for this project until then.</i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Update May 8, 2019</span></b><br />
Since I had set up a Face Book account whatever I'm working on, plus the goings on in my life have been posted there. Looking back through some of these posts I realize that I need to add some updates to projects that have long been finished ... this one with the hexagons for example. I did end up using the hexagons that I had reduced to one inch. Also this piece is hand quilted with a diamond pattern.<br />
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Antique hand-made fabric buttons are centered in the hexagons within the border. This common element helped to linked them together into a unit rather than individual "spot dots." Visually they receded just enough so the snowflakes are the main focus.</div>
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The rest of those hexagons created from my husbands neckties ended up on our three same aged grandson's "BIG Boy" quilts. I can hardly believe they're all twenty years old .. soon to be 21!<br />
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The quilt patterns are all a variation of "bargello" made with shirting and light-weight suiting fabrics.<br />
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One grandson request the hexagons be on the "back" of his quilt. He liked the clean lines unadorned on the "front."</div>
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I do believe their next quilts will be hand-quilted wedding presents. One of which grew out of that "soupcon" project:</div>
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I could not resist beginning yet another quilt using <a href="http://faeriesandfibres.blogspot.com/search/label/Soupcon" target="_blank">Karen of Faeries and Fibers instructions for this group quilt along</a>.</div>
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It started with this hexagon I had made back in the first week of this group project.</div>
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<i>Soupcon Step 1</i></div>
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I got carried away with the "what if" possibilities and had made a bunch. I had ended up using this one to make valentines. It was printed out on textured paper and then I glued and couched threads to make designs. While doing all that I came across a square of silk I had hand painted quite a few years ago. The color reminded me of roses. So I went digging through the home dec fabric samples and found this piece ...</div>
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I scanned it in my printer, cut out one rose and a bunch of leaves and placed them on the hexagon. I liked what I saw a lot.</div>
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<i>Paper cut-outs on left. Machine appliqued and quilted on right.</i></div>
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I had applied bonding to the fabric rose and leaves before cutting them out. The rose and leaves were adhered with a hot iron. The leaves were positioned under the edge of the hexagon and bonded down before it was hand-stitched in place on the background.</div>
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I wanted these elements to stand out a bit more on my finished piece so had placed a layer of wool batting on the under side before machine quilting around the rose and leaves. The excess batting was trimmed away.</div>
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Now it was time to add the rose-colored ring and background fabric... <br />
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There are a number of ways to make the ring. This is how I did it for this project (I skip this step if the fabric can be spray starched stiff enough to hold its shape).</div>
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Many years ago I had purchased this ruler that has holes punched at half inch intervals. By anchoring it into my small ironing pad that is a piece of covered fiber board I can draw my circle. These are the lines that are machine stitched...</div>
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The next step is to cut away the excess fabric beyond a seam allowance. Tear away the freezer paper from the inside seam allowance and clip the fabric at close intervals. Note that my scissor points don't go beyond my stitched line.</div>
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I use craft glue to adhere the folded seam allowance to the the freezer paper. Note that I fold and glue short sections that are opposite each other on the circle at a time. Repeat those steps for the outside seam allowance. Pin the circle in the desired position and either hand or machine blind stitch in place.</div>
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I hand appliqued mine, then machine couched rayon embroidery thread over the edges. <i>(Go <a href="http://nelliedurand.blogspot.com/2006/11/couching-yarn.html" target="_blank">here</a> for a tutorial on how I machine couch and scroll down to "couch yarns to the surface")</i>. I used the same stranded rayon floss to embroider around the leaves and the rose.</div>
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Also, I wrapped the quilting stitches of the rose petals with this thread.<br />
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To my mind this piece begged for "dancing squares" in the next border.<br />
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<i> Soupcon Step 4</i></div>
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I learned this technique in a class taken from Ricky Timms. It goes together something like this...</div>
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It's been a while since I had made this type of border and had difficulty getting my spacing figured out. I will be hand appliqueing the two squares pined at the top of the side panels to fill in my too wide spacing.</div>
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Go <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/soupconqal/pool/" target="_blank">here</a> to see all the creative variations made by the Soupcon group members. If you're intrigued and wish to join the fun of making one of your own, go to Karen's blog to get instructions.</div>
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Yesterday Karen gave us <a href="http://faeriesandfibres.blogspot.com/2014/02/soupcon-quilt-along-part-4.html" target="_blank">instructions for the fourth step</a> for our hexagon quilt along. I consider this to have been a very nice valentine from her. I spent the afternoon cutting and sewing the pieced border. I had no experience with this pattern and was glad to learn how to set those squares on point without going crazy.</div>
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It wasn't until all the borders were sewn on did that pieced border begin to glow. To me it has the shine of faceted jewels.</div>
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In this close-up shot you can more clearly see the fabrics. Who would've thought that hand-marbled fabric would be the one that works. Wish I had taken photos of my other considerations, but I was too excited to get started to take the time to do so.</div>
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Now I'm excited to add this border pattern to my initial project for this quilt along ... the one that grew beyond the boundary of Soupcon's first step. I did take the time to photograph the border fabric auditions on this one. I'm still in the process of embroidering around the hexagon motifs and will finish doing that before adding the border pattern.</div>
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<i>Audition #1</i></div>
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The red patterned squares pick up the red in the hexagon's centers, though that scale is too large.<i> </i>I liked the colors in the pattern of the fabric around them, but it's really too busy.</div>
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The dark fabric behind those same red squares is flecked with bright colors. It's the one in the background of my single hexagon piece at the beginning of this post.</div>
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I'm still liking that red fabric for the squares. This time over the same shaded black fabric that's behind the center star hexagon.</div>
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I happened to take notice of how the marbled fabric used for those diamonds in the other piece picked up the purplish hue of the big squares in this one. I do believe this with the shaded black background will be my choice. I think the striped fabric may be the one I use to outline the diamond pattern. Although, there's time for something else to take my fancy before I actually begin cutting.</div>
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Take note that the fancy border around the center star motif is appliqued and embroidered. I'm pleased. It's a bit of struggle coming up with designs to border the "round" hexagon shapes. I've just this moment begun to suspect they don't need embellishing. In which case, the embroidery I've done around the top center will need to come out.</div>
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Nellie's Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12468773469685787840noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15723470.post-8169582608426791322014-02-13T23:45:00.000-05:002014-02-13T23:46:14.908-05:00Happy Valentine's Day<div style="text-align: justify;">
Here's hoping you're "in the pink" ... that you find time in your day to imagine or create something out of this world.</div>
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This piece was made just for the fun of it quite a few years ago. I liked the challenge of working with all that pink. It's constructed in my "ortwork" technique and I think the size of it is about 12 inches square. It was donated to the Smoky Mountain Quilt Guild small quilt sale back then.</div>
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Last Friday Karen of Faeries and Fibers gave those of us who are participating in her SoupCon quilt along project a third step for our hexagon block. I was thrilled that it involved appliqueing a ring around our focal point hexagon shape, because that is what my piece had already dictated to me. I've gotten the bits and pieces appliqued into the pattern I want. My next step is to add embroidery ... most likely a lot of buttonhole stitches to echo the printed spiky pattern around each shape.</div>
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This is what Karen posted with instructions for how to get our pieces to this point.<br />
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I have no idea if what I've done to my piece will accommodate Karen's next three sets of instruction. Sooooo ... using one of the seven more hexagons that I made in step one of this project, I've started another quilt.</div>
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I had printed images of each block so I could play with ways to extend the fabric pattern beyond the block into the background. I used crayons because the colors stood out on the printed paper.</div>
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The next step was to applique the hexagon to a background fabric. I liked this black speckled with colors. Then the fun of doing the embroidery began ...</div>
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Then I was ready to frame it with an appliqued ring and another background fabric.</div>
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I can hardly wait for the next step of instructions a week from this next Friday. In the meantime, I'll be doing a lot of embroidery on the frame around my hexagon star center piece ... as well as making valentines.<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>PS: It's not too late to join in on this fun project. Go to Karen's blog for instruction. The first installment is posted <a href="http://faeriesandfibres.blogspot.com/2014/01/soupcon-hexagon-quilt-along-part-1.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</i></span></div>
<br />Nellie's Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12468773469685787840noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15723470.post-34683083543388734742014-01-29T15:36:00.005-05:002014-01-29T15:36:52.289-05:00Even More Hexagon BlocksAnother star block was decorated with a row of outline stitches to make a lacy edge...<br />
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I also edged another star block with a dense pattern of colonial knots...<br />
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Here's a peek at my design wall. One of those hexagon arrangements will replace the center one in the bottom row.</div>
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This is the direction I have in mind to go with my SoupCon Quilt Along piece. The framing fabric around the center square is rough cut and ready to be trimmed down, edges turned under and appliqued IF ... </div>
<br />Nellie's Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12468773469685787840noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15723470.post-74210725046089124202014-01-24T13:04:00.000-05:002014-01-24T13:04:35.636-05:00And Another SoupCon HexagonSo far I'm enjoying the challenge to soften the edges of the hexagon stars that I designed for the <a href="http://faeriesandfibres.blogspot.com/search/label/Soupcon" target="_blank">Soupcon Challenge conducted by Karen at Faeries and Fibers</a>. The outline stitch combined with the buttonhole and colonial knot stitches make a delicate lacy edge on this star ...<br />
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The embroidered outline pattern was figured out in a tracing...<br />
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I used a sheet of Press n Seal (Glad paper product for sealing food) and a Sharpie permanent ink pen to do this. The paper is transparent and sticks to the fabric while the pen marks do not smear. This is the process I use to figure out quilting patterns for large quilts, as well.</div>
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To see the hexagons that other members of this group are creating, go to this <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/soupconqal/pool/" target="_blank">Flickr site</a>. </div>
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It's a bit of a challenge to come up with patterns that help to integrate the secondary hexagon motifs with the background. My intent is to embellish them to be interesting, but not compete for attention with the center star in the middle of this piece. My first thought of framing this one with a straight row of buttonhole stitches defines the shape which draws more attention than suits my purpose,</div>
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That line of stitching emphasizes rather than softens the outline of the star whereas the scattered knot pattern gives interest as well as softens the edge between the shape and the background.</div>
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In the above photo the smaller needle is a size 9 and the larger one is size 18. The thread is a 6-ply strand of cotton floss. In this case it's the needles that produced the two different sizes and shapes of knots.</div>
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A source that demonstrates how to make this knot (besides my <a href="http://nelliedurand.blogspot.com/2007/06/how-to-make-colonial-knot.html" target="_blank">blogged instructions</a>) is a video at this <a href="http://crossstitch.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=crossstitch&cdn=hobbies&tm=54&f=00&su=p284.13.342.ip_p504.6.342.ip_&tt=3&bt=7&bts=7&zu=http%3A//www.needlenthread.com/2007/03/embroidery-stitch-video-tutorial-2.html" target="_blank">link</a>.</div>
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Now it's time for me to figure out the embellishment for my next hexagon star.</div>
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On Friday Karen posted the next step for this hexagon quilt along called "Soupcon". She suggests we embellish our hexagon with embroidery stitches. I had not taken note of anyone else doing this before I saw her work. It's one of the reasons I joined this project. Go <a href="http://faeriesandfibres.blogspot.com/2014/01/soupcon-hexagon-quilt-along-part-2.html" target="_blank">here</a> to see her suggested ideas. This is what I've done to my mine ...</div>
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I felt all the fine design lines within my chosen fabric dictated a lacy edge.</div>
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The knot stitch that I prefer to use in all my embroidery is the <b>Colonial Knot</b>. It is more stable than a French Knot ... plus it's fun to make. I wrote a tutorial <a href="http://nelliedurand.blogspot.com/2007/06/how-to-make-colonial-knot.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Another element that I have added is a striped black and white wool yarn. It's machine couched to frame the center fabric. Here's a <a href="http://nelliedurand.blogspot.com/2006/11/couching-yarn.html" target="_blank">tutorial</a> I wrote about how I couch yarn in my work. There are two methods presented, one for edges and another for the middle of the work. Scroll down to the second one to see how I sewed the yarn to these centers.</div>
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I started to edge this motif with the buttonhole stitch ...<br />
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I hadn't made it a scalloped edge because I want to keep this motif secondary to the center one. I'm not liking it, so those stitches will be coming out ... I don't yet know what else will be done instead.</div>
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Nellie's Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12468773469685787840noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15723470.post-65171512651565578032014-01-15T12:36:00.000-05:002014-01-15T14:10:55.340-05:00Playing With Hexagons<div style="text-align: justify;">
I bought this half yard left on the bolt by the customer ahead of me at JoAnn's in early December.</div>
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My thought was that it would make nice thin strips to transition between design elements. Instead, it's become the star (literally) to my playing with this online project, <a href="http://faeriesandfibres.blogspot.ca/2014/01/soupcon-hexagon-quilt-along-part-1.html" target="_blank">"Soupcon Quilt Along"</a> created by Karen on her blog, <a href="http://faeriesandfibres.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Faeries and Fibres.</a> Here's my solution to the first step in making my version of her the wall hanging she's designed...</div>
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However, I couldn't resist playing with different configurations of the hexagon to make more medallions...</div>
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Here's the fabric from which I'm cutting the centers...<br />
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I'm intrigued and couldn't resist playing with more configurations...<br />
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I'm excited to see where Karen is leading me and the 28 others who are in on this project. It's not too late for you to come join the fun, too. Just go to her blog and leave a comment indicating that you're interested.</div>
Nellie's Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12468773469685787840noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15723470.post-86663011601086783822014-01-07T23:42:00.000-05:002014-01-08T13:14:06.949-05:00Last Year's Creations<br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">I have been quiet here in blogland
this last year. One of the main reasons is that most of my online time is
spent on an iPad ... which is not at all conducive to posting here. It's been easier for me to post a quick picture with a brief message on Facebook when a project was finished.
Also, I haven't been all that productive in my studio(s). My energy has been a bit diminished since surgery a year ago August and what I do have has been directed to time and activities with family and friends and keeping up with two households.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">In review, here are the pieces I have completed this past year ...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><i> </i></span><b>"Smoky Mountain Sunrise" </b>20"x 16"</div>
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It won 3rd place in the Art Quilt category of the 2013 Smoky Mountain Guild Quilt show . To see the beginnings of
this piece as well as others that present variations of my favorite view
in the Smokies go <a href="http://nelliedurand.blogspot.com/search/label/Smoky%20Mountain%20Quilts" target="_blank">here</a>. It is for sale at the <a href="http://www.cliffdwellersgallery.com/news.html"><span style="color: red;">Cliff Dweller's Gallery</span></a> in Gatlinberg, Tennessee.</div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">This is the first of the wildflower series wall quilts. It found a home in northern Indiana.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="color: #444444;">This is part of the 100 lake series. I'm sure <span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="color: #444444;">my goal of a hundred has been reached<span style="color: #0b5394;">... <span style="color: #444444;">I've lost count.</span> <span style="color: #444444;">However, I'm not finished with making lake pieces. There are definitely more moon set ones in my future. This one was sold to a Michigander.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Nellie's Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12468773469685787840noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15723470.post-66739768183069930312013-12-15T22:30:00.001-05:002013-12-15T22:30:48.492-05:00"Boxes of Colors"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The title for this cuddle quilt is inspired by the pointy elements as well as the multitude of colors that sparkle against the neutral hues. I'm reminded of a new box of crayons. I've couched chenille yarn around the squares ...its soft, fuzzy texture brings to my mind the kind of line that is drawn with crayons.</div>
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I stayed with neutral hues on this pieced back. The center diamond is a printed panel. The fabric on the corners feature Elvis ...<br />
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I made this quilt for my and Lee's bed ... the Elvis' are for him. It's the cover that gets displayed at the foot of the bed until it's needed for an afternoon nap or extra warmth on a cold night.<br />
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I'm off to celebrate the holidays and won't be taking my laptop with me. I'll be back to post in the new year ... I promise. Cheers!<br />
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I had a bit of time to complete the two trillium pieces that incorporate the real birch bark before having to get busy with a big commitment before we leave here for the summer. Here is one of them ...</div>
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The trillium in these two have bright yellow green shading in their centers. They'll be mounted on the large leaf print to finish them. That will get done when I go to the cottage, since they're destined for Good Good's Gallery in Saugatuck, Michigan.</div>
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In the meantime, I'm knee deep in smocked clothing and boxes of "paper." A whole lot of my smocked stuff is being donated to the Lacis Textile Museum's (Berkeley, California) permanent collection. An exhibition featuring smocking is scheduled for early next year. Getting my donations documented, and packed to send off before we leave is taking a lot more work and time than I had imagined. I'm not having any fun with this and fantasize about dumping it all in boxes to let them sort it out. This means I most likely will not post here again until I'm relocated up north.</div>
Nellie's Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12468773469685787840noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15723470.post-25405077239350775602013-05-11T11:34:00.002-04:002013-05-13T00:37:52.588-04:00"Remembering Mother"This beautiful piece is not mine ... but it could be yours!<br />
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The <a href="http://www.alzquilts.org/">Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative</a> is offering a special
Mother's Day <span style="color: blue;">auction starting today and ending at 10 p.m. central time on Sunday night</span>.
During this special Mother’s Day weekend, they are offering just this one
extraordinary quilt. “Remembering Mother” was made by
Rhonda Dort of Houston, Texas. It is a tribute to Arline, Rhonda’s
mother-in-law who passed in September of last year due to complications
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Rhonda shares her thoughts about, as well as her process for creating this beautiful wall quilt on the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative blog. To read those and to see close up photos of each section, click on the link at the beginning of the paragraph above.</div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>There were 34 bids with the winning one $335.</i></span><br />
<br />Nellie's Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12468773469685787840noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15723470.post-81410717976917806352013-05-06T13:36:00.000-04:002013-05-06T13:36:08.577-04:00Different Kind of Orts<div style="text-align: justify;">
When I was at the <a href="http://www.cliffdwellersgallery.com/" target="_blank">Cliff Dwellers Gallery</a> Theresa Tyler was stripping birch bark to make hand crafted baskets in her studio space. While we were talking she was discarding that outer papery white layer. Before I left I asked if I could glean her waste basket of what I considered to be the "good stuff." This is what I brought home.</div>
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You'll note there's also some marbled paper scraps strewn among the bark pieces. Pat Thomas, another of the gallery co-op owners, does marbling. I emptied her wastebasket of those. The pieces with blues are now stashed with the bags of orts set aside to make lake pieces.</div>
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The two new trillium pieces have "birch sticks" in the foreground. Here's one of them with the first layer of orts trapped under yellow tulle ready to be quilted.</div>
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I've become enamored! There are two more trillium textile art quilts that I finished and delivered to the <a href="http://www.cliffdwellersgallery.com/" target="_blank">Cliff Dwellers Gallery</a> in Gatlinburg this past weekend.</div>
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<b> Trillium Patch #2</b></div>
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Both of these began with my dividing one of the pieces of fabric on which I had made rubbings of huge leaves that were collected along the Mississippi River with gold and silver oil paint sticks back in 2008. </div>
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Here are both of them with the first layer of bits and pieces of scrap fabrics, thread ravels, roving, and skeleton leaves</div>
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... before they were trapped with a layer of yellow tulle netting. I then machine quilted around the outside edges as well as the shapes and lines.</div>
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Here you can see I've added leaves, stems, and grasses that were shaped from fabric scraps and disassembled "silk flowers" (collected from thrift shops) to the quilted foundation piece on the right in the picture above.</div>
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The border fabric is linen that I discharged a
number of years ago. Real fern fronds were scattered across it and
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water. At that time I discharged all the yardage I had of this linen
with various patterns, some of which was used in <a href="http://nelliedurand.blogspot.com/2008/03/come-with-me-to-kasbah.html"><span style="color: red;">"Come With Me to Kasbah"</span></a> and <a href="http://nelliedurand.blogspot.com/2010/02/fading-memories.html" target="_blank">"Fading Memories"</a>. I love the copper color of the bleached areas. I had gone back to the store to purchase more, but it was GONE.</div>
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The first hanging, "Trillium Patch #1" sold before it was finished to one of my blogging friends. There are two more foundations using another of those pounded big leaf fabrics layered and laid out to make numbers 4 & 5. </div>
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<b> "Trillium Patch"</b> 18"x 18"</div>
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It's finished except for the hand-stitching of sleeves and pockets for the hanging apparatus. I like the contrast of the dry ashy colors in the border with the warm
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<b>"Bear Lake"</b> 45"x 34" </div>
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Viewers get to vote for 6 favorites this time. I rarely find choosing my favorites easy so it's nice to get so many choices. Go <a href="http://quiltinggallery.com/2013/04/26/quilted-wall-hangings/" target="_blank">here</a> to vote for the ones you like before Monday at 6pm.</div>
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I find it amusing that so very many people have pinned the <a href="http://nelliedurand.blogspot.com/2008/06/making-trees.html" target="_blank">tutorial I wrote</a> when I made those shrubby trees in the foreground.</div>
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In fact, 49 people have visited my blog just today to read that post. Over the years I've used a number of different ways to make trees. The technique I came up for creating these is easy and most effective.</div>
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To read the story behind this quilt go <a href="http://nelliedurand.blogspot.com/search/label/mountain%20lake" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<br />Nellie's Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12468773469685787840noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15723470.post-12570670374453771512013-04-26T14:15:00.000-04:002013-05-05T17:39:38.689-04:00Trillium PatchMy little trillium patch is complete ...<br />
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The stamen are embroidered. I used several shades of yellow floss in the 6-ply strand to stitch a variation of the bullion knot. I opted for irregularity in those stitches to reflect reality of perspective and nature. Also, the trillium leaves have been highlighted with oil stick pastels as well as shaded around the edges with a dark blue water color pencil.</div>
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This afternoon I'll be playing with the placement of the trillium piece over the yardage of batik that has the effect of discharged leaves. I'll consider making my own discharged leaf fabric if I change my mind about the scale of this one. Right now my thought is those large "dead" leaves in the border complement the focus piece and add to the story. After all, old dried leaves are what I saw most on my recent woodland hike ...</div>
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I'm liking this piece a lot!</div>
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However there were moments I considered scrapping it ... which means eventually cutting the woodland floor background into pieces for something else. My problem was that every color of tulle I placed over it to hold the sprouting plants in place "killed" the woodland floor hues. The whole piece just "died."</div>
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The solution was to choose the tulle color that enhanced the new growth parts ... that one is the bright yellowish green one...</div>
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It was pinned to cover the whole top. I stitched/quilted around the greenery then trimmed the tulle away from the woodland floor sections.</div>
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Well, most of it. I see that some more needs to be cut away. Do you see how the color is lost in the upper left corner in the above photo? Think I'll be trimming that away. Pieces of white tulle were placed over the blossoms, then the excess trimmed away after free-motion stitching around the petals. That stitching also anchors the calyx pieces which are loose on the surface. Some new growth pieces float on the surface as well.</div>
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Nellie's Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12468773469685787840noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15723470.post-20355742734977958992013-04-24T22:03:00.000-04:002013-05-05T17:39:38.691-04:00Sprouts on the Woodland FloorI very much liked the foundation of scraps for this wild flower piece.<br />
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I have a lot of colors of tulle to select one to hold all these bits and pieces together ... and I debuted them all.<br />
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The grayed lavender is the one that worked best to my eye.<br />
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I have a huge bag of silk plant leaves. I kept digging until I found ones with the right hue, sheen, and veining. Very rarely do I use any "whole" leaves. You can see where one of the leaves for my plants was cut from that large one on the right.<br />
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Can you guess what the flowers will be from my leaf formations? <br />
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