Showing posts with label Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum Collection III. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum Collection III. Show all posts

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Valentine Garland: découpaged fabric hearts!

Yes, I'm excited about this one. It's a charmer, if I do say so myself...




I was trying to come up with a Valentine craft activity for my son's school party and -ha- well, that didn't work out but look what I ended up with! I had a stash of découpaged fabric - mostly from Judie Rothermel's Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum collection - that I made a folk "penny" floor quilt with a few years ago. So I started cutting out hearts (to my heart's content) and they told me they wanted to be a garland. Whipped out the handy paper punch and a ball of yarn to string them and voilà! I have been meaning to make some fabric pennants for my son's room for a long time. I think this découpage idea takes it to a new level... Just think how much damage you could do with a die cutter... A garland for every holiday... Do letters and you have name banners and quotes hanging on the walls -- in F A B R I C !!! ... Hmmm...





Saturday, October 29, 2011

010.Cathedral Window



Block name: Cathedral Window
Jane's Addicted block name: Mildred Pierce
Original position: D-5
Jane's Addiction position: tbd
Fabric/foreground: Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum Collection 3 by Judie Rothermel
Fabric/background: Jo Morton # 5331
Color Group: medium blue
Wave: diamonds
Date started: 10/28/11
Date finished: 10/29/11
Time: 4
Pieces: 21
Method: paper piecing
Notes: loving this background fabric. Ripped out about 10 seams. Had some trouble removing sewn-in paper from some little corners. Still not clear when to rip paper out and when to leave it. Also fretting a bit about leaving traces of paper in the stitching and glue (lots of glue) in the seam allowances. hmmm.

4.5" blocks: 8
Triangles: 3
Kites: 0
Total blocks: 11
Total number of pieces: 256

Today I also cut paper pieces for a few more blue diamond blocks and pulled paper from the checkerboard triangle block. I have figured out that good things to have prepped to do as busy work are:
- cutting up preprinted paper piecing sheets ---> ziplocs for later piecing
- tracing shapes to be appliqued onto freezer paper ---> then cutting out shapes/ironing on selected fabric, etc.

Other misc. work would be:
- selecting fabric for various blocks and colorways I haven't decided on yet
- removing paper, pressing and trimming down completed blocks
- pre-printing block patterns and instructions
- updating binder
- updating virtual design wall
- updating blog



Watching Mildred Pierce.
Love how she color-coordinates
with my block.




Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum Collection III
Judie Rothermel
Jo Morton