Lupine is a pattern by Bobby Jarrett. My version in the private collection of Bill & Deb Velacich.
Archive for September, 2008
Lupine
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Forest Ferns
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
The Prima Jacket Pattern by Akasha is a very simple, easy to put together jacket. It allows room to create and embellish. This jacket began with black fabric, ferns and an experiment in bleach discharge. I chose the hand marbled fabric that complimented the discharged fabric
. Four different marbled designs of Chocolate Brown, some scraps of hand dyed burnt orange and black for accent. I constructed the fabric by attaching it to heavyweight flannel. The ferns needed something to bring them out. I found the solution by machine quilting the vein of the stems with gold thread. All that was left was to cut out the pattern pieces and assembled the jacket.
Pansy
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Pansy by O’Carol Designs is my newest creation. 
I used a combination of my Hand Dyed fabrics and my hand marbled fabrics. The combination of the two give the pansy a lot of depth and texture. I did not follow the pattern color choices, because I wanted to recreate the pansies that I grew outside my tent in Alaska. I downloaded some photos of my favorite pansies and used them for inspiration and color choice. The Pansy is lightly machine quilted with much denser quilting on the background, so the pansy stands out.
Crayons
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
You might say I love bright colors. I am always on the lookout for a fast and easy quilt to use as a baby quilt or charity quilt. Crayons is perfect. This is a lap/crib size and it uses 8 Fat Quarters and 1 1/2 yards of black for the border. But the great part is the quilt can be expanded to a King size by adding more Fat Quarters. You stack up the Fat Quarters and cut them out all at the same time, sew the blocks together and add the borders. If you are in a real hurry don’t add the crayons in the borders. My version contains three hand marbled FQ, one FQ from Bold Over Batiks and four batiks. Bright, cheerful and eye catching.
Summer Waters
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
It is very rewarding to see my hand marbled fabric made into wonderful creation by others. This is Summer Waters by Diann Smith. 
I was so excited to see that she had used my green hand marbled fabric as her focus fabric.
Tiger Lily
Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Tiger Lily is designed by Bobbie Jarrett. I used 3 different hand marbled fat quarters (med orange, orange/yellow, lt orange). I Machine quilted the lilies following the design of the hand marbled fabric. It came out better than I had envisioned.
Northwest Rain
Saturday, September 13th, 2008
This vest is also made using the Venetian Vest by Brensan Studios. For this version I used sun printed fabric for the accent panel. I added extra leaves using thread. I also added some rain with some sparkly thread. The side panels are hand dyed fabric and then machine quilted to give texture.
Red Planets
Saturday, September 13th, 2008
This vest is made from Venetian Vest by Brensan Studios. It’s easy to make and comfortable to wear. It is perfect for wearable art. The panels are great for piecing and embellishing. I used three different hand marbled fat quarters in the pannels. The black side pannels are embellished with red thread.
Delightful Dogwood
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Delightful Dogwood is also designed by Bobbie Jarrett. Her patterns are all written for needle turned applique. I have not leaned the technique just yet, so I use a Raw Edge Machine Applique method. It comes out with a totally different look that I personally prefer.
My Mom loves this wall-hanging. There was something mentioned about my inheritance being at stake if it went to someone else. After Mom turned the age of 70 she gave up being subtle.
Wild Iris
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Wild Irisis designed by Bobbie Jarrett. I used hand marbled purple for the flowers and two green for the leaves. With every piece I create I always try and experiment and teach myself something. My philosophy is that life is just one big experiment. You have to try new thing and keep growing. The experiment for Wild Iris would be how to machine quilt the background. So many choices…
Wild Iris now resides in the private collection of Jeff & Mary Wysong. And I still have visiting privileges.