tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52385399330188294232024-03-12T17:14:50.885-07:00Experimental QuiltingChatty Silvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18384107281619460074noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5238539933018829423.post-49613417190157244272017-02-13T13:30:00.003-08:002017-02-13T13:30:26.735-08:00The Hungry Goldfish Quilts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8fxku11vWGwPXHKONaI_K7yFWBE_LI0S89TXhyUGiJrplc0cDCO9uk1q57dQREi2n5u0Z4qSrNUzQdymnmjgbIbnwu_7MegfknX9BycLNjfFuJUuDOFge9VVO0_Zpx4xvSwkNM0kmLJiH/s1600/fishTemlate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8fxku11vWGwPXHKONaI_K7yFWBE_LI0S89TXhyUGiJrplc0cDCO9uk1q57dQREi2n5u0Z4qSrNUzQdymnmjgbIbnwu_7MegfknX9BycLNjfFuJUuDOFge9VVO0_Zpx4xvSwkNM0kmLJiH/s320/fishTemlate.jpg" width="232" /></a>So far this the only example of the "Hungry Goldfish" quilt pattern, and considering it takes a little more than 7 times as long as the last two patterns it may be rare for a while. Still i really like this pattern and at this size the pieces are small enough not need any more than outlining for a quilting method. With such large spaces it should be very soft and flexible. These Hungry goldfish shaped pieces are 31/2 inches wide at the head and so fall well within the maximum recommended un-stabilized width of 3 1/2 inches after shrinking (usually 14%). Since the rounded edged squares showing in the pattern fish are 1 inch across it should be feasible to increase the size of the fish pieces for a larger quilt up to a preshrunk size of 12 inches across. The full two axis network printed on the template should produce round edged squares 3.4056 inches across in the quilting (after shrinking 14%). The pattern fish here should be correct if printed on an 8/2 x 11 sheet.<br />
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The closeup shows how hard these pieces curve away from each other during sewing. The method that worked best for me was to create sub assemblies ( the ladies at the Quilt Guild always asked about the squares, but these sub-assemblies look more like feathers).<br />
Any way it went easiest like this. First they bite, mouth to side in rows. Then they cuddle, the loose tails get one side sewn to the adjacent fish. Then they mesh, the sub assemblies lock tails with the main assembly. My experiment is a baby blanket, currently about 30 x 36 inches but I have yet to finish it off smooth. I would like it a little bigger, but I'll have to wait for more fabric. I'll definitely be showing it off when I get it worked out. <br />
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This one I call "Squared Fish" since it's network also contains the single wiggle square net.<br />
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This one is "Phase Flipped Fish" since it contains the phase flipped side slipped single wiggle square net.<br />
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The last for now at least is the"Double Zigzag".Chatty Silvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18384107281619460074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5238539933018829423.post-66704817560207323182017-02-03T14:10:00.000-08:002017-02-03T14:25:40.204-08:00Two Axis Spawns Gold Fish<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Again the current project has hit a funding wall! Woo hoo, this means to move forward I have to think. There are still pieces I could add, but I really wanted to just make a back so I could check out the quilting process for this one. Since none of the pieces are more than about five and a half inches across (before shrinking 14%) the batting should be stable even without the string ties in the center of each square (they're not showing yet, no back eh?). I'm excited to see how soft and flexible this one will without the excessively dense quilting I've seen so often. Still every seam will be reinforced by the quilting, plus it looks really old, cool.<br />
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Since I didn't have any big pieces of fabric for the back, and I still wanted to have all the seams reinforced by the quilting if possible, I went with the phase-flipped single wiggle square pattern. But I got bogged down trying to piece the squares together and only made righty hooked ones. I only needed three whole squares but most of my fabric was single sided, so I couldn't flip anything except the gingham.<br />
I ripped the stitches on the nearly three foot seam and started to flip it over, then realized if I just moved it I'd get the same effect.<br />
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The more I look at them the better I like these fishy shapes! Now the idea of piecing and all the hassle of matching seams front to back seems a bit much and the two axis project is on hold waiting for a back. The gold fish project is begun.<br />
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I'm nowhere near done but I've got a good start. It's big enough to tell I want a whole quilt first time out, and probably a baby blanket too. I thumb-nailed a a mock up to get an idea of how many of each piece I would need. I had some velum graph paper (you can erase and redraw on this a lot!) it's pretty transparent so I made flaps and doped out a couple of different backs to see how big the pieces would be.<br />
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Even with no fixed plan for this quilt, the large hexagons really moved it along. Sewing late at night and on the weekends I still managed to get this far in two weeks and tile a shower during the same two weeks. As it got bigger I kept laying it out on top of a queen sized bed and turning it various ways and pining on pieces according to the cheat sheet. None of it is pre shrunk so I'm expecting 14% shrinkage (ow). With the rows running lengthwise on the bed alternating lefty righty there's a wavy edge about 5 or 6 inches off each side of the mattress. because of the way the hexes touch it should be possible to cut straight across each end and have solid green straight edges top and bottom.<br />
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Since I've got to wait a bit before I can get my batting and the material for the back I dragged out an earlier project and decided to take another run at it. To the right is the foam board experiment cut in with an Xacto knife and stuffed down in the cuts with a piece of a credit card. Next to it is a section of the densest sample I was able to sew. It was crazy slow and that is the only piece I made that size. It might be good for clothes though. <br />
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In this picture the sane arrangement has room for fourteen or so sock monkeys per square instead 1 3/4 monkeys like the earlier test. The goal is to make the top out of the full two axis pattern quilting atop each edge and piecing the back together out of larger single wiggle squares. The idea is to reference front to back by basting the lines of the back to the front network by hand, then quilt it all by machine from the front. There's still a lot of piecing and sewing before the back is a factor but so far I'm enthused.Chatty Silvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18384107281619460074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5238539933018829423.post-19803429356539019412016-12-10T15:14:00.001-08:002016-12-10T16:09:42.111-08:00The Celadon Cyclogon Quilt Is Begun<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Even more experimental than usual. The Celadon CyclogonQuilt is actually short for the "Phase flipped side slipped single wiggle snub hexagon quilt". Despite it's eight word name this quilt has had a much more informal beginning than most<a href="http://cyclogon.blogspot.com/2015/12/cyclogon-tillings.html">a sheet of the three axis circle net</a>. I outlined a single wiggle triangle with a sharpie and blew it up on the copier till it filled the page. I then made six more copies and glue sticked six of them together to make the hexagon in the same scale. I bought three yards each of two shades of sage green solids, and two yards each of chocolate brown and buff solids. I cut out as many single wiggle hexagons I could, being careful not to flip the pattern or fabric, of one shade of green. Then I flipped the pattern so it hooked the other way and cut as many as I could of the other shade.<br />
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I then made a bunch of triangles hooking in both colors, hooking both directions and began sewing them together using a print out of the phase flipped side slipped single wiggle snub hexagon from below as a guide. I've been pretty busy this week so I only got in a couple of late night hours progress each day, still it's getting pretty big already. It's already bigger than a baby blanket ( in five days). </div>
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<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 32px;">These examples represent the smallest pieces I was able to cut consistently. Quite a number of them just broke from the strain, and more than a few were backwards (the wiggle has a direction). It wasn't until later that I realized those backwards pieces were the key to an even odder group of symmetries. I was moving them around wondering just how one might join lefty wiggles to righty ones. I had to flip some over because so far I had no place for out of phase pieces. That was before I discovered "phase flip, side slip".</span><img alt="" class="left" data-mce-src="https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAQUAAAAJDRiYTllMTgzLWY1N2YtNDEzZi05MzYxLWNlYmI1N2U0NzFmNQ.jpg" height="223" src="https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAQUAAAAJDRiYTllMTgzLWY1N2YtNDEzZi05MzYxLWNlYmI1N2U0NzFmNQ.jpg" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); float: left; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; height: auto; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-right: 30px; margin-top: 30px; max-width: 100%;" width="155" /><br style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 32px;" /><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 32px;">Applied to the triple wiggle triangle window, these phase flipped triangles don't just wiggle they crawl. The effect on the other cyclocentric polyhedra is no less pronounced.</span></div>
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Ok, Chicken says, "It's time to wrap it up." This project's been done, and the next one's well on it's way. So here's a couple of quick tips on how the quilting layout went.<br />
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At first I was a bit at a loss for what might be useful, but after trying a bunch of different templates it came down to two. The first one was just to locate the intersections.<br />
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Everything about this quilt was more straightforward than the last one. No surprise, this one was tested better and sewed over and over till it worked reasonably well. Both the corners and the curvy joins (slightly visible on each edge) required ripping out and resewing several times to work. There was another surprise when it came time to make the back. Using the template for the border as a guide it wasn't too challenging to make a pattern the size the field should have been.<br />
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The template for the back was made to equal the six square width of the field. The squares of the field were cut out with a quarter inch tab all around. After sewing, the whole field had drawn up enough to hide about a quarter of an inch under the template for the back. So instead of adding a quarter inch for a sewing tab when I cut it out, I trimmed off a quarter inch all the way around.<br />
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Looking closely you can find the curvy joins and fancy corners in the picture on the right. The joins hid better than the corners, but it all worked well enough to use it again. <br />
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After batting, pinning, and basting shut the whole thing shut, it got it's batting secured at the edge and shaken ever which way. Laying flat it was safety pinned around the border checking to be sure front and back were lined up. The edge of the border was then hand sewed, then machine sewed from the top along with the rest of the wiggly squares.<br />
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The resulting slight stagger (mostly less than an eighth of an inch) bugged me some, but I'd do it again.<br />
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I've been looking forward to making something with Single Wiggle Squares for a while now. Because this network is most easily generated by a grid of regular squares I tend to think of it as a fourfold network. This network generates circles of four fishes surrounding flower like figures sharing fishes with the four surrounding circles. Quilting this pattern is accomplished with pairs of wavy lines running two directions. Once again the colored pencils allowed me to change colors instead of erasing my error. This was my third poster paper sheet of this network. In the end I filled the whole sheet and then some making patterns for the back and border, cutting and taping as necessary.<br />
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Instead of bigger squares with the full quilting everywhere, I made them as small as I felt would be workable on the sewing machine. Outlining each piece<br />
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I went through enough weirdness with odd fabrics in my first few projects. This time, it's all calico and gingham. If I counted right there are 13 kinds of calico and 2 kinds of gingham. It would have been simpler to make the whole back and border one piece. Instead I wanted to give the synced up front to back border one more try, with the quilting uniting the simplified center field with the barely marked, fully quilted border. Ideally, every fabric join should fall under a wiggly line of quilting.<br />
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There were four of these made of gingham sewn together to make the frame/border, but first there were several traced on bakers parchment, cut out, folded up and test fitted around the field to make sure they'd fit. Several didn't fit, but eventually the corrections yielded the one below which led to what is probably the correct pattern at left. Baker's parchment is weird stuff. It's fairly transparent, but it won't hold tape or glue-stick worth a damn. It was however always in the kitchen and cheaper than vellum or some other tracing paper.<br />
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If not for Tedi-Cam, well it's all there on the potholder. These images are both from my book "My First Hundred Teefes", so far published only on Kindle ( Except for 19 copies). They like all the images in the book were black and white line drawings.<br />
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The "Hyah" baby blanket didn't make it this time. So for now this potholder is on the short list of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/First-Hundred-Teefes-Chatty-Silvers-ebook/dp/B00JRP6QJI/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432445654&sr=1-1&keywords=my+first+hundred+teefes">"My First Hundred Teefes"</a> ephemera.<br />
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I hope one day to get some better pictures but for now I'm just glad I got it finished and under the care of Dr Mo.Chatty Silvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18384107281619460074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5238539933018829423.post-40357404526499135722015-05-23T00:01:00.000-07:002015-05-23T20:16:46.278-07:00FIRST DOUBLE WIGGLE SIMPLIFIED BABY BLANKET MAILED <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Cyclocentric Double Wiggle Triangle Simplified baby blanket, to be more precise, is completed. Quilted, hand washed, and hanging to dry in the sun, seems to me to have an extra wide border. Flaws and all, I'm pleased enough with it that I've already begun plans for the next "simplified" test. It looks a little dark, it would it's still damp. I was still a little shy about this one. Even though my front to back border matching method wasn't great this time, I hope to get it eventually. It is proof of concept. I only got a few pictures of it, but there's time it stayed in the family. <br />
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I'm sure it'll be more opaque when it's dry. As it is it looks almost stained glass like from some angles.<br />
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I may always be a bit behind with my articles. Fortunately I still have some pretty good pictures of this one, even though I've done two more since then. Recent experiments using only wiggly lines in the border (except the outside edge) with varying density and complexity of the quilting, have led to more descriptive names. For instance, since this blanket's Cyclocentric polygons are bounded by straight lines out to the edge, I would refer to it, and the larger version with a similar treatment, as "primitive". That would make this a Cyclocentric Single Wiggle Triangle Primitive baby blanket.</div>
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As a hedge against further shrinkage incidents, I made this baby blanket test quilt somewhat larger. Good thing too as my nephew is growing faster than I'm sewing. That's not as bad as it seems. This quilt is an experimental design thjat went beyond my expertise. While the topside looks interesting-good, even a cursory examination of the back reveals that rounding the edge with the border has stumbled somewhere. Perhaps a clear chalk line to show the fold location might have helped. Somehow the backside drifted, so the border's a bummer on the back. Grow fast Ivan, when it's a wall hanging, the back won't show.<br />
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This quilt is called "Double Wiggle Simplified" because the field (center of wiggly triangles) isn't showing the full threefold circular net. The plan was to quilt on the simplified net in the field and surround it with a border of the complete net of circles of fishes.<br />
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The drift debacle was somewhat disheartening. Fortunately I started the quilting by chalking the full net for one direction in one corner and stitched it before I got bummed out. Now even though the full effect of the two nets in one is blunted by the drift on the back, I've got one corner already set up for the full net test.<br />
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The other three corners have only the simplified net, and depending on the test, they may stay that way.<br />
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It's an oddball, but even if it's the only one I do, I'm glad I got to see a quilt in this pattern.Chatty Silvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18384107281619460074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5238539933018829423.post-6365680898894207862015-02-24T15:07:00.000-08:002015-02-24T17:06:21.106-08:00Six Lines Shy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I admit it, I'm loafin on tha fishes. Though it's probably just as well. I've been sewing every day for six weeks now. Building up to about six or so hours a day, and I'm still short most of six "layers" (sets of wiggly lines about four inches apart, all the way across the quilt in six separate directions) of stitches. Don't get me wrong, I love the threefold-fishy network, its's possibly the best quilting pattern my entry level skills and sewing machine can manage. But dam, that's a lot of wiggly lines.<br />
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The threefold circular (piscis) network is at the heart of this group of Cyclogon Quilts and is also the pattern of the quilting in this project. Printed out and laid face down on a blank white sheet, the worksheet at left makes it easier to find the various cyclogons (compass net versions of various polygons) used in this group of quilt experiments.<br />
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To quote Mr. Deeds and President Kennedy, "These puppies are wicked hard to work with, but it's not because they are easy that we will take these challenges on."<br />
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This is the last time I'll have to roll this quilt to add another wiggly line of stitches. Turns out I was once again over optimistic about how much more there was yet to do.</div>
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Three sets of wiggly lines to outline the triangular pieces, that is rolling and working all the way across adding lines of wiggly stitches three directions. Then three more times to subdivide them into three smaller wobbly triangles. This is where I stopped.</div>
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To make the circles and fishy flowers like at the bottom foot or so, would require six more rollings. I'm sure it would be lovely, but it would take me about 20 to 24 more hours. I think I'm really warming up to the wobbly triangles, any one of which would fit in the palm of my hand. These two show views of the top side before it had a border</div>
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I'll get better pictures up <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_831326926" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tomorrow</span></span>. As it is I'll be lucky to get this post up by <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_831326927" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">11:30</span></span> tonight.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">It's not snake-skin, although it approaches that level of pain in the but to work with. OK, it's not sticky or stinky or really easy to poke a hole in, and if you screw it up you don't have to find another snake to continue. But, if you mark the wrong side of the fabric, one can't just flip it over. It's not that kind of symmetrical, especially if you've already cut the edge. Even though it won't work for the project I had in mind, I went ahead and stuffed it down just to see how challenging that was, ow!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The little section in the picture took about an hour. Because of the weird way the edge wobbles, when the network is expanded the lines get fat and thin.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> When they're stuffed in, the thin places want to pull the fabric across from them up. I'm pretty sure I can still hide the edges of two </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">thicknesses of flannel, but I'm not so sure about fleece or furry velvet. I still want to see the bulgy side after it's been stitched down, but this time that would suck because the good side of the fabric's on the back. Guess I better find another snake, and start over.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Ideally it would have been on a longer piece of fabric, since if it works I'd like it to be a scarf. It's still a fairly long test strip, yet not so long as to be a severe waste of fabric.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> So far I haven't figured out how to reference up the triangles I haven't seen how the bulge looks. Uh-o, I just realized this a single side good fabric so if the back side's good the bulge isn't. I meant to do that. The plan now calls for a good side bulge, pieced batting and a solid symmetrically dimpled fllannel back.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Stand back, wouldn't want to sew you down to it.</span>Chatty Silvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18384107281619460074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5238539933018829423.post-31739902581640052952015-01-06T17:21:00.000-08:002015-01-06T17:30:31.616-08:00Change On The Fly Or Die <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After agonizing over content , I finally decided to roll with the original weirdness from the book illustration since it was already named and published. This position hit the wall particularly hard later. The ticking Teefes look like mattresses having an adventure, and the added textures reminded me of a comment my Deddy made about an earlier fabric mosaic. He mentioned that the oddly detailed finely grained fabric patterns added an interesting counterpoint to the odd but simplistic cartoon-like picture. I totally agreed, and later while looking at the bizarre mattress Teefess decided to, "Free the Calico Cat" and as it turned out the Jacquard horse as well. Having now given up on my original color scheme, I began to dig through my fabric scraps for alternative solutions to more colors. It's a good thing too, since the further I got in filling in the details of the picture, the more obvious became that it would work well only if it were twice or three times as large. Rather than "Live or die as is," We will live or die, redesigned on the fly." Since the crazy dream-like quality of the piece is more important than any single over detailed element, redesigns to accommodate my level of sewing skill and odd new fabric choices will have to fall under, "I meant to do that." Meanwhile, I intend to push on still having fun on purpose and finish this sucker.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">After looking at the full sized plan, the giant Teefes (now each head sized or largrer) just didn't make me want to sew them for hours and hours. However, I am liking the the transplanted Teefes. When the plan is re-assembled construction of the "Hyah" baby blanket will most likely resume. </span>Chatty Silvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18384107281619460074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5238539933018829423.post-24300456504694407412014-12-26T17:07:00.000-08:002014-12-28T15:50:37.902-08:00Simultaneous Release !<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">And then they had cocoa. Finally, pulled loose with not near the trauma of the mere 18-25 hour potholders that preceded it. The strong canvas bezel took the strain of the first pull, and held the ends of all the outer joins together. If it hadn't taken so long to assemble, it would be a shoe-in as the kick off of a multi-panel "Teefes" baby blanket. I'm definitely going to do another panel from "My First Hundred Teefes", but till I've gotten a lot faster at the stitching, I'll probably be sticking to single panel projects.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The slightly damaged holder board says, I didn't sew near as much foil to the back of this one. Even though I doubt I'll want to sew this one again this size, I'm still holding on to it for a while. It kinda reminds me of Han Solo (carbonited Han). </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Hanging there on the back of my chair, the recently freed hotel ghosts sip their cocoa, mocking me. Live it up fellas, you haven't escaped the needle.</span></span>Chatty Silvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18384107281619460074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5238539933018829423.post-8584136205036613122014-12-19T22:37:00.000-08:002014-12-20T08:39:48.188-08:00"We've been Framed," Cried The Chocoholic Ghosts.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The stitching of the picture is done, Woo hoo! Now I have cut up an oldish (10 years), slightly stained, but very tough bakers apron to make the bezel (frame) and back in one piece. Once again the bakers parchment pattern transfers the slightly funky rectangle of the image to what should look like one of Tedy-cam's photos.<br />
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Although it might seem like extra work to inlay the image by hand, it seemed a shame to give up any of the picture for a stitching tab. Even with relief cuts in the stitching tab that come to just over an 1/8 of an inch from the corners they still mushed out a little (rounded unexpectedly). Huh, I meant to do that. Well only about 3 more feet of tiny catch-stitches and I can start closing it up.Chatty Silvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18384107281619460074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5238539933018829423.post-62128970755291372962014-12-15T08:48:00.003-08:002014-12-15T16:34:33.628-08:00Hungry Ghost, Post-Nasal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I guess I saved the best for last. Tiny Teefes roots, inner tube, and the even tinier water inside the inner tube, plus the dreaded marshmallows also remain to be stitched. That said I am much better prepared now, having experienced the Hungry Ghost nasal aperture training just yesterday. Cross yer phalanges.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I have yet to face the dreaded marshmallows, but I'm pretty sure I've passed halfway with the stitching. This one makes that "Simple 18 Hour Potholder" look downright practical. I guess it's too late for that paper-cut huh?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I am finding close examination of my stitching is painful at best. Still I remember, this is not a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">prom dress, and the acceptable standards for arty, experimental, potholder quilts are a bit more lenient. In other words, "It would have to look a lot stupider than this before I could feel good about giving up". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Perhaps not yer museum quality pot-holder, but maybe good enough to hang in the kitchen and pick up hot stuff for years and years. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Notes on the stitching; Especially on the shiny stuff, poking the needle toward the center (while not as pretty as a parallel to the edge stitch) and double wrapping the needle (knotting) each stitch helps keep them from bursting the edge as often. over cutting (leaving extra width) particularly in narrow spots cuts down on the, <br />"I meant to do that", on the fly image redesigns. Wish I had more, I mentioned over-cutting didn't I? Oh well Like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton">Shakleton</a> and <a href="http://oatwillies.com/about/">Oat Willie</a>, "Why stop now, onward through the fog". A<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 24.88888931274414px;">fter the Shackleton family motto </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 24.88888931274414px;">"Fortitudine vincimus"</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 24.88888931274414px;"> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_(1912_ship)">By endurance we conquer</a>).</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Chatty Silvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18384107281619460074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5238539933018829423.post-5389620552774716222014-12-13T08:00:00.001-08:002014-12-13T08:43:40.187-08:00Haunting Progress In The Cold Morning Light<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">If somebody asks how long this took, lie. Better they think yer silly than nuts. This is making the standard, tacking the edges of heat stuck applique method seem worth a second look. The six inch thread sticking out of the greenish area is waiting to be pulled taut and snipped. It will draw back behind and disappear. It's already short enough to make knotting challenging. Future runs at this method will definitely have more over cut (bigger tabs for stitching on) especially on the shinny fabrics. </span><br />
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The scary part is I've just gotten started good. While it seems like these pictures are a bit dense detail wise, I really like how they look as fabric mosaics. This is probably one the very few that will get a potholder test. I am totally stoked about doing some of them as baby blankets (single frames). Several of the pages from "My First Hundred Teefes" (especially the front cover,"Hyah") are landscape-like with way too much detail to do in a panel (potholder) but might make a weird enough baby blanket to get hung on the wall. I can already see the old growth Teefes as various kinds of ticking, Hyah!<br />
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<br />Chatty Silvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18384107281619460074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5238539933018829423.post-37497520271018776342014-12-11T20:50:00.000-08:002014-12-12T06:10:54.910-08:00If Not For, Till Then<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Poking the fabric, yes? Picky and slow enough to be a little embarassing, if it didn't look so cool. As I continue to fill it in I also continue to edit the picture. Just three shades of white and some black and its done, at least till the stitches begin.<br />
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Now the colors are placed. I haven't sewn several of these fabrics before. To tell the truth I'm not sure that I want to stitch it and make a backside for this pot holder.<br />
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It's colorful, finished looking, and may get ruined when I begin the catch-stitch and sew it all together for real. It would be really easy to Sum it up, hold what I've got and get a frame. But no! Till then, it's the coolest page for "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=my+first+hundred+teefes">My First Hundred Teefes</a>" so far. Sew, if I wasn't so tired I'd jump it tonight. I really want to see a quilt that includes this panel.Chatty Silvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18384107281619460074noreply@blogger.com0