LC's Cottage

Judy’s Challenge 3

Posted on January 18, 2019 | 8 comments

Judy, of Virtual Quilter, posted her 3rd challenge in learning to use Electric Quilt.

We were to choose a kaleidoscope block, one made from many sections, and choose a fabric collection to play with. I chose the Faceted Star block and Modern Marks fabric by Christa Watson.

This was a great exercise! By playing with value/contrast, the block could be made to look so different without ever adding another block or more fabric.

With more play time, I could have come up with more variations, but here is what I have done with this challenge:

And just to see two of the many possibilites:

This was fun!

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Organizing the Blog and the Candace Project

Posted on January 15, 2019 | 7 comments

I have not posted in a while, so thought that perhaps I should check in.

I have been slowly working my way through organizing the blog, and I am not finished yet. It is taking some time, since I started blogging in 2011, and I don’t have hour after hour to devote to this task. At least, not hour after hour all in one sitting, since I apparently do have hour after hour to get this done.

My blog is essentially a journal for me, and it has become difficult to find relevant posts when I want to reference, or reminisce a particular past post.

I have deleted a few posts.I have added new tabs to the header, and I have links to relevant posts listed under those tabs. I don’t know about you, but I think this will work better for me.

And that may be all that matters.

The bow tie leader/ender basket slowly fills:

The bow ties are pinned in groups of ten, so they will be easy to count when I decide that I have enough for whatever size quilt that I haven’t made a decision upon yet.

I have begun a new project. There will be no deadline; no rush on this one. It may take a very long time.

The enlarged photo is a posterized version of my niece, Candace:

I haven’t done an ‘art quilt’ in a long time, and this one has been on my heart for several years.

Candace was visiting and wanted to learn to bake a pie. She was thrilled with her first made-from-scratch cherry pie. A happy memory, and a good one to replicate in an ‘art quilt’!