She brought in her fabric boards and I loved the shibori and the actual sashiko fabrics. I had thought sashiko was just the blue needlework stitch on white but there is actual sashiko fabric.
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| Sheila with one of her fabric boards |
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| Shibori board |
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| Sheila DeRose quilt shown during lecture |
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| Sheila Derose Sampler |
The start of my wallhanging and, yes, I did measure and try to match seams! I can still do it if I need to. The piece will have sashiko stitched centers over a star pattern. Now I have two wintertime hand stitching projects to do. Why was I interested in this class? Long ago, I started a fabric collection of Japanese quilting fabrics and just never knew what to do with them but truly wanted to use them authentically. Now, I know how.
But time to get to work this morning on the Christmas presents. Anyone else making presents?
Be creative, my friends!
Yep. Me. A little cosmetic pouch for my new DIL and two advent calendars, one of which made it to its destination in MD days ago and the other, mailed a week before Thanksgiving is still not in Hawaii. Bummer!
ReplyDeleteThen there are the other things like overalls for Nathaniel and 2 busy books. I don't think there's any hope for the books to get done.
Of course I've been distracted by a fussy cutting lecture at our guild and the pattern and fabric I bought there to make ornaments. A friend thought they'd make great gift tags and do double duty. And yes I had to figure it out and set a play date. You're not the only nut case you know.
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