Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Postcard #7

This week's postcard is dedicated to Sharon, as encouragement for her heart project. The heart is cut from a beautiful scrapbook paper I have, I love the bright pink swirls. Have a great week!

Friday, March 14, 2008

Postcard 6

This month's theme is black and white, and this week's bonus color is lime green (I used it in the stitching). For this block, I cut 3/4" strips of black and white fabrics, in increasing value, then I 'weaved' the strips, after running a stitch along the top of the white strips to hold it in place, and wove it all on top of a piece of fusible web.

Then I trimmed it down to 4"x6", stitched down the strips with variegated thread, then stitched it on top of a postcard. Such fun. This postcard reminds me of my mom, since she once saw a quilt in a book that was made to look like woven strips and searched for a long time to find that book again, having not written down the reference the first time around (I hate it when that happens).

Week 11


Thursday, March 13, 2008

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Postcard 5

This month's color scheme is black and white, with a color thrown in. I went with pink again. Although now I wish I had done orange. Well, this postcard was fun to make, though a little tedious. It is 4"x6" like the rest of them. But this one is all paper-pieced. Then I didn't make sure the points all lined up when sewing the rows together. It feels a lot like throwing gold down a sewage ditch down the street... but again, this is all a learning experience for me. At least I IRON everything now, finally. Anyway, then I went and blew it some more by putting on that weird stitching. But then I started doodling and that was kind of fun.

Linocut

I've wanted to try this for a long time but never got around to it. I got both a piece of linoleum and a 'sheet' of eraser. I cut a 1" x 1" square from the eraser and cut away this shape of a flower. It was a very shallow cut and I had paint issues (white acrylic). I'm excited about this technique and this is my first cut. I printed it onto purple cardstock with white paint.

Monday, March 3, 2008

LS Series, Postcard 4

This month we are doing black and white in the series, with one other color, which changes each week. This week it's pink. I don't think we really picked a shape. Here is my postcard for this week: