Persian Star Revisited

You may remember seeing this quilt a year ago on this blog. If not, check here. Well I guess January is the time I go through my UFO box and see if there's anything in there that still has my interest, and I came across this. I decided that I really did need to figure out what the heck was wrong with this thing and get it finished so I could quilt it. After spending time looking at it, looking at the pattern, I discovered that the two side borders were each missing a block at the bottom. Hmmm...that's why I had two extra blocks...go figure. So I sewed those on, voila! One vertical border fit perfectly. The other didn't, it was too short. Then I fitted the top and bottom borders, same deal. One fit, one was too short. By about an inch in both cases. No, I was not going to go on a 'rip and resew' fest. So I decided my only option was to add more fabric at each end, center the border between it, and applique the border on. Of course I could not find the two fabrics I needed in my nightmare of a stash, so I went to my last ditch, go to place--my scrap box. After scrounging up enough scraps, piecing them together and finally sewing everything together, it was 4 hours later and finished. Now on to the layering and pinning...*sigh*...maybe another day...

Third Round of 2010/11 Complex Cloth

I have to admit that I haven't gotten much done in the studio the last few weeks. We've had a glorious break in the weather with daytime temps in the upper 50s and 60s and lots of sunshine. The nights are still quite cool, getting down to the teens and twenties with lots of frost. So I've been trying to spend as much time outside as possible before the 'big storm' that's supposed to hit on Monday and break this pattern of weather nirvana. *sigh*


I did spend some time in the studio working on this cloth for the next round in the Complex Cloth Round Robin I'm participating in. Another beautiful piece of dying by Jacque and Gisela. The previous layer was accomplished with snow dying and black dye, so I guess I had snow on the brain when I opened this package. Much of the patterning on the cloth reminded me of snowflakes and I just couldn't get that image out of my mind, so I decided to define it with more 'literal' snowflake images. I used a screen from Lyric Kinard's design collection and screened with Jacquard's Lumiere Metallic Silver.


I'm really happy with the outcome of this...was thinking this would make a lovely curtain or room divider if it was a little bigger...


Here's some playing around with different colors trying to decide which one(s) to use. Hmmm...in the end going with a simple color seemed best for this technicolor cloth. It's now off to the next person and I'm waiting to see what's passed to me next. So far I am loving the challenge of working on these diverse and beautiful pieces of cloth...