My next project.....making a wall hanging from this glorious Dancing Horses panel by Laurel Burch. I found myself in a quandary on how to border it. I immediately attached a small 1" border using a black tone on tone striped fabric but then I couldn't decide; do I make a crazy quilt border or use the other dancing horses fabric that has the burgundy background.? This is a very strong panel with a lot going on so I needed to be careful not to make the border too busy, I posed this question to my friend Margaret after I posted the photo on the right on facebook with both borders and the panel that I had put up on my design wall.
Do you remember back in elementary school making hand made Valentines? It was one of my favorite activities. The paper lace doilies, the red and pick construction paper and of course...the glitter! This year, just for fun, I decided to make so hand made valentines to sell. I have some 8 1/2 X 11" card stock and envelopes that will lit the card once you fold it in half so now all I needed was a design. First I made a propotype using up some fabric I had left over from making a heart shaped bowl.. The idea was to completely cover up the card stock with fabric and then decorate it with a heart. The people I showed it to for feedback really like it, especially the idea of adhereing fabric to the entire card.
What better time to take on a new project than the New Year. Back in the Spring I started making coiled fabric bowls which I learned how to make by a tutorial a friend suggested that she found on the CraftStylish website. I blogged about making my first bowl on April 2, 2013 which can be accessed through my blog archive. I later found out that Susan Breier had written a book called "it's a Wrap" about making clothline bowls. I recently purchased the second book where she discsses how to make differently shaped bowls which included square and heart-shaped. This past week I made my first heart-shaped bowl.
One of the items on the materials list is a glue stick. This was something new to me but since I was going to follow the directions in the book, I thought best to do as suggested. I dug out of my stash what I thought would make an intersting heart shaped bowl and with with glue stick in hand, I began cutting stripes and wrapping them around the clothesline. WOW, LOVE the glue stick! The most difficult part of making a clothesline bowl in getting is started, incorporating the next strip and also ending the bowl. The glue COMPLETELY streamlined this process.
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My next project.....making a wall hanging from this glorious Dancing Horses panel by Laurel Burch. I found myself in a quandary on how to border it. I immediately attached a small 1" border using a black tone on tone striped fabric but then I couldn't decide; do I make a crazy quilt border or use the other dancing horses fabric that has the burgundy background.? This is a very strong panel with a lot going on so I needed to be careful not to make the border too busy, I posed this question to my friend Margaret after I posted the photo on the right on facebook with both borders and the panel that I had put up on my design wall.
