tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44356181629693075082023-11-15T22:09:59.200-08:00JUDYMQUILTSJudy Makinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15253610995125117476noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435618162969307508.post-68943284508934066572014-10-26T02:00:00.000-07:002014-10-26T02:00:06.450-07:00FALL<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've signed up again for a postcard exchange at the Halton Hills Quilters' Guild. I have hundreds of postcards and don't know what to do with all of them, but I love making them - little tiny pieces of art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just received this one (a little late from last year's exchange). I love the simplicity of it, and it's perfect timing to celebrate Fall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Judy Makinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15253610995125117476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435618162969307508.post-10352629984538916082014-10-23T02:00:00.000-07:002014-10-23T02:00:01.984-07:00GELLI PRINTS<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Burlington Fibre Arts group got together last week for an evening of Surface Decoration. I couldn't make it to the meeting, but did a bit of work at home. Using a Gelli Arts gel printing plate and Joan Bess's book Gelli Plate Printing, I was well on my way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started using black cotton. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A dried fern leaf was used to give a mask of the leaf's shape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The leaf was removed and a ghost print was pulled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The painted fern leaf was then applied to pieces that had already been printed and dried, giving an added layer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then a ghost print of the same leaf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't have too many stencils, so made do with objects found around the house - this is from a bath mat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stencil of circles - mask and ghost print - positive and negative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not too fond of these next two. Maybe because the fabric is white??? I think I'm going to overdye each one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I ran out of pre-cut fabric, so started using watercolour paper. The process is fast and I couldn't find enough flat spaces to lay the pieces to dry, so had to stop, but am looking forward to printing again when space permits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Judy Makinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15253610995125117476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435618162969307508.post-54102144334020481532014-10-19T07:00:00.000-07:002014-10-19T07:00:33.098-07:00ORA NA AZU NWA<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a proverb that "It Takes a Village to Raise a Child". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no evidence that the proverb genuinely originated from the Nigerian Igbo culture, however "Ora na azu nwa" means it takes the community/village to raise a child, not just a mother and/or father. The Igbo's also name their children "Nwa ora" which means child of the community. It has been existence in Africa for centuries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The idea came from Quilting Arts Holiday 2015 magazine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Strips of fabric were fused to heavy weight interfacing (I used Pellon). The pieces were heavily quilted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Judy Makinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15253610995125117476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435618162969307508.post-91395543011365727362014-10-08T02:00:00.000-07:002014-10-08T02:00:07.789-07:00PRAYER FLAGS CHALLENGE<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spoke about my sister's Prayer Flag Challenge a while ago. Even though her deadline was the Canadian Thanksgiving, I finished mine and blogged about them. The Challenge was afoot. Now, my sister had to finish hers, and WOW, she did a great job, too! Don't you agree?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Judy Makinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15253610995125117476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435618162969307508.post-39325295410670872902014-09-29T02:00:00.000-07:002014-09-29T02:00:00.588-07:00PRAYER FLAGS<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My sister issued a challenge to make some prayer flags. She gave me five small (5x11") pieces of muslin with which to create.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had heard of prayer flags before, but I really didn't know what they were all about so I had to do a little research. Basically, they are banners of hope and peace. These particular ones are made from scraps of fabric, representing the Tibetan prayer flags using the five elements - Earth (yellow), Water (green), Fire (red), Air/Cloud (white) and Sky/Space (blue).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Challenge Was On! I began by just painting each muslin scrap, using ordinary cheap acrylic paints. When the background paint dried, I added a few stamps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A good friend and work colleague is leaving at the end of the week. She is our resident IT Tech. We're having a pot-luck lunch to celebrate her retirement. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wonder why I'm in charge of event planning all the time? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A quick stop to our local "Waste-Wise" proffered a used computer monitor ($2) and keyboards. They didn't have to work. I just wanted the monitor as a back drop for a retirement message. The keys from the keyboards were popped off and hot glued to the monitor. I had to add printed text as I ran out keyboard letters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I ask myself why I don't get any quilting done!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's that time again when the Group of Eight Fibre Artists make journal covers ready to donate to the local women's shelter. I made a few earlier in the year, trying to get ahead of the game, but I had more ideas, so made a few extra. They were made to fit over Dollar Store composition notebooks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Judy Makinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15253610995125117476noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435618162969307508.post-18717404463296219832014-09-17T02:00:00.000-07:002014-09-17T02:00:02.181-07:00CHEVRONS<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While leafing through one of my monthly quilting rags, I came across a photo of a pillow with a chevron pattern. I loved it and had to make a couple of my own. Here they are sitting on my welcoming chair.</span><br />
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Judy Makinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15253610995125117476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435618162969307508.post-74245903289072471362014-09-10T02:00:00.000-07:002014-09-10T02:00:02.776-07:00WHAT RHYMES WITH ORANGE?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've fallen in love with modern quilts. Modern quilting is a fresh approach, embracing functionality, simplicity and minimalism, using asymmetric designs, often inspired by modern art and architecture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently saw a quilt similar to this and fell in love with it. I had to give it a go. Seven different orange fabrics and a dozen greys, cut into 2.5" and 3.5" strips, sewn end to end, then strip pieced together - EASY!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the quilt top only. I found the perfect backing, however there was not enough on the bolt, so had to place an order for more. Don't know when it will be in, but I have plenty other things to keep me going until that time.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Judy Makinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15253610995125117476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435618162969307508.post-13741126190447975012014-09-06T02:00:00.000-07:002014-09-07T09:46:02.133-07:00FIBRE CONTENT<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Three pieces of my work were chosen to be shown in the juried Fibre Content 2014 show, beginning Tuesday, September 9th, at the Art Gallery of Burlington. </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 15px; text-indent: -24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The venue at the AGB is inspiring and there are many restaurants, shops and lake side space in the area to enjoy. </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 15px; text-indent: -24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plan to meet some of the artists on Sunday, September14th between 1:00pm and 3:30pm. I'll be there.</span></span><br />
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<br />Judy Makinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15253610995125117476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435618162969307508.post-44056378151408922452014-09-02T02:00:00.000-07:002014-09-02T02:00:03.568-07:00BLUE BEDROOM RENO<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been renovating the bedroom and with that bought a new king-size bed (due to dogs). You'd think that the the blue quilt under way would go on that new bed, but alas, it will hang on the wall (due to dogs). A few years ago, while on a spa weekend, I stopped in a quilt shop and picked up some blue (my favourite colour) fabrics. With the reno, I've been cleaning up and came across that pile of fabric still together. I saw a picture of a quilt similar to this on Pinterest, and thought that it wouldn't be too hard to make. I found that I didn't have enough of the original blues, so had to go shopping for more. It had been a few years so none of the same was available, so now to find something similar. It took a shop hop of 13 stores, but I managed. The top is finally pieced.</span></div>
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<br />Judy Makinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15253610995125117476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435618162969307508.post-90976367428468480862014-08-29T02:00:00.001-07:002014-08-29T02:00:00.700-07:00CANNING, REALLY?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spent my last Friday afternoon off "canning" or "preserving". My nephews (bless their souls) harvested their garden and brought their aunt some beets and cucumbers. Since I hadn't done this before, I had to search for recipes, then go shopping for items that I didn't have. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boiling the beets alone took almost an hour. Then cool, rinse, peel and slice, make brine, then water bath. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been working on this piece for a while. The painting of fabric is easy, but takes quite a while to dry in between each addition. As the base, I used part of an old quilt top that I didn't like and had been stashed away on my shelf. I covered it with acrylic paints, bubble wrap prints, stencilled letters and numbers, Shiva paint sticks, metallic rubs, spray inks and rubber stamps. I even added my own tag. After all of that, it became riotous and graffiti like, but still needed something else - a calming effect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you may know, I love black and after auditioning many ways to use it, landed upon the idea of a silhouette over the graffiti, to give the viewer's eye a resting point. Not just any silhouette would do. I didn't want to use images of flowers or people. I thought about looking at the graffiti wall through a window and maybe add some window frames. Straight lines in a grid pattern did nothing for the piece, so back to more thinking. Then after speaking to my sister one Sunday morning, while she was on her way to church, I got the idea of using a church window frame. I started to work and changed the orientation of the piece to better reflect the height of a church window. Then removed the eyes (they freaked me out) and the tag (it was too big so made it smaller). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As an added bonus, many of the shops offered for sale fabric personalized shop license plates (way cool!). I've been to 20 shops and picked up only five. It seems that the Row by Row Experience is sooooo much fun that shops have sold out quickly. I've left my name at all the participating shops in hopes that they will mail one to me when they are back in stock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had only a few days to complete the project so a modern quilts, using just a few large pieces of fabric, did the trick. I chose blues for a boy (call me sexist). To me, t</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he name Luke is reminiscent of Starwars, so I borrowed the Star Jedi font for the name LUKE and the label on the back of the quilt entitled Use The Force, Luke. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I keep every bit of fabric, including the selvedges. The Block of the Month for September was "selvedge spools". I had no issues trying to find the selvedges, but did have issues with the inset seams. If this were my block, I'd make 1/2 square triangles for each corner of the spool and stitch the pieces together like a 9-patch - sssoooooo much simpler than inset seams. I made two blocks for the draw, but didn't win.</span></div>
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Judy Makinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15253610995125117476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435618162969307508.post-62486078734329163532014-06-24T02:00:00.000-07:002014-06-24T02:00:00.525-07:00PRESIDENT'S CHALLENGE - PEAR STILL LIFE<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every year the Halton Hills Quilters' Guild President offers a challenge. This year we were to take a button from within a bag and make a quilt based on that button. I pulled out a pear shaped button. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I came up with lots of ideas and discarded lots of ideas, but finally fell on using photos of actual pears, and thread stitching them into an art piece. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I called upon my photographer sister to take some pictures that I could use. I don't like eating pears so she had to go out and buy some pears on her own then set up the shoot. Here's what she sent to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I guess she got hungry during the shoot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I printed these pictures onto fabric using my desktop inkjet printer. The pears were cut out and placed on a dark background. Each pear was thread-stitched. Painted, stitched and distressed Lutradur leaves were an added 3D embellishment.</span></div>
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