Sunday, October 21, 2012

I'm Finished Horsing Around



My Equestrienne 2  is finally finished (almost)!  I am still uncertain about the white base.  However I did promise an update  and here it is: 




I think it turned out well, but then I've always liked horses.

The Elusive Butterfly is almost finished.  But I haven't  worked on it in a while.  

My Yvette project is still where I can look at it and think about what I need to do.  I won't say I'll never finish it, but I have other things that have a higher priority.

Quilt Festival Pet Project Postcard

International Quilt Festival/Houston, launched the first of three Festival Pet Projects, so last week I stopped working on dolls and took some time to do a fabric postcard:


The project was fairly simple. I copied a sketch of Fluffy,  one of our rescue cats and reduced the image so it would fit in a 4" x 6" fabric rectangle.  Next I traced the image on freezer paper,  heat set it on the light blue fabric,  and fused the trimmed image to background with Pellon Wonder Under.  

I created a "quilt sandwich": muslin backing, thin quilt batting and the cat image. The embellishment was a combination of free-motion qulting, hand quilting and an embroidered outline.  The finished quilt was backed with another piece of dark blue fabric.

I mailed the postcard to Houston on Friday. Here's hoping it arrives in time and someone likes it enough to buy it.

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