Catch Up Post: 2018 Easter Cards

For Easter this year I did some fabric collage.

There was a series of Easter Eggs.  The eggs are fabric scraps that had fusible adhesive on them.  The background and the letters are paper.

There was also some Easter bunnies done with the same technique.  The bunnies and eggs are fabric scraps fused together and the backgrounds and words are all paper.  The second one had used stitching to enhance the card.

Nancy

Sophie Kurszewski's Quilt

Tom Hughes started this.  Last spring, I made a quilt for his daughter who was graduating from high school.  This year the quilt is for his niece.  

These memory quilts end up reflecting their owners. 

Sophie is an athlete – she ran cross country, she played soccer and she swam.  So there were t-shirts from sports and of course soccer jerseys.  Add in the assortment of t-shirts from camps and schools and events and you get a memory quilt. 

She was adopted from Guatemala when she was 3.  A part of her quilt is the dress she wore when she was adopted which has very, cool embroidery.  Her mom also came home from Guatemala with a hunk of hand woven fabric.  The fabric is now in the quilt and I made Sophie a pillow. 

Once again I was invited to the party and had several people tell me they will need a quilt in the future.  

I don't do anything special for the quilting.  I simply do long runs through my machine and make sure that no more than a 6 inch square is left between lines.

Thanks for stopping.
Nancy

Thanksgiving Cards

Yes, I am finally getting around to posting pictures.  This past week twice I was asked if there was anything new on the blog.  So here are Thanksgiving cards.

These were an excursion in cutting fabric on the Silhouette.  Yes, the Lazy Girl fusible web I picked up in August really does work well with the Silhouette cutter.

Then the other cards were an interesting experiment.  Somewhere in my travels I picked up the leftovers from someone putting leaves on a sweatshirt.  The Ziploc bag even included a picture of a sweatshirt from some catalog that this person wanted to copy.  I ironed them onto a card and found that it not only worked, it worked beautifully.  The first layer fabric and the second layer is a printed napkin.

Now if I only could figure out how to scan so the images are straight...

Thanks for stopping.

Nancy

Halloween Cards 2015

Yes, I know it's time to post pictures.  The Halloween cards this year used a diecut design set on Mulberry paper (silk fiber).  The background is fabric.

This one has printed paper instead of the Mulberry paper.

And I figured out how to use the sketching capability of my digital cutter.  So I did some envelopes.

Thanks for checking out what I've been up to.

Nancy

Birthday Card & Book Cover

It's August and that means my Aunt Judy has a birthday.  Of course I did her a card.

Last night I played.  I watched one of the PBS sewing programs where they made book covers so I had to try that.

Here's the front.  The horizontal piece is some dyed cheesecloth.  The lace on the right is hand done tatting.  I have no idea where I picked up a sample.  It could of been from my grandmother or it came in one of the grab bags of lace I have picked up at St Vinnies.  Most of the fabric is from a $5 grab bag I bought in Shipshawanna, Indiana from a batik dealer.

And the back.

This was definitely a sample.  It took several tries to get the back and the flaps to be happy with each other, but now I know the tricks.

Thanks for checking out my blog.

Nancy

Bed Runner

When I retired/left JCI l got several quilting related gifts.  I was told they are expecting Christmas gifts.  Tammy went so far to put her order in for a bed runner.  I finished Tammy's bed runner.  She asked for neutral colors.

I like how this turned out.

Nancy

Class at Fabric Etc2 in Bensenville, IL

I took a 2 day class at a wonderful fabric store just south of O'Hare Airport.  Terri Johnson came and taught several projects with the Silhouette cutting machine.

We cut vinyl with adhesive backing and decorated travel mugs.  The tricky part was putting sticky vinyl on a round surface.  I ended up with some wrinkles.

We cut heat activated vinyl and decorated a tote.

We cut a stencil and did some glass etching.

We cut flocking to hold rhinestones and decorated a little bag.  I was amazed how easy the rhinestone project was and it looks just like the stuff you buy in the store.

We also cut stickers.  Basically you can cut an image that is in the Silhouette software.  So you print and then  cut the designs.

We got a demo on fabric cutting.  The best part is the shop owner has figured out the tricks to cutting fabric.  They make a starch that turns the fabric into something more like paper and they are also using a fusible by Lazy Girl designs.  It works.  The shop is cutting kits for fusible wall hangings using this method.

We also got a demo of drawing with the Silhouette.  The trick is to buy the pricey pen holder.

Have a good day.
Nancy