I made a spider with beads.
I'm going to dangle it somewhere. Live long and prosper.
Scenes from the Road of Life
After much talk and advice received, I got my Synthropol and mixed a strong solution with water and began dobbing, blotting and rubbing at the orange bleed (caused by the Aurifil thread I used to baste this quilt).
It is hard to see if its working when the fabric gets wet, but it does appear to be. I'll have to wait until it dries tomorrow to know how well it worked.
I've started making a Needle Book from a pattern by Sue Spargo.
It involves making this tiny hexagon flower. I made my own paper hexies to wrap the fabrics around. I will sew them together tonight while watching TV.
I was very disappointed to see Carpe Diem when I got home. It's been three days on the work wall drying from the water I sprayed on it to remove the blue marking lines. The blue lines are mostly gone, but the orange bleed from the Aurifil thread is still visible on the quilt.
I left home at about 7am heading north to La Conner for the Exquisite Bead Book Workshop with Gail Harker.
I arrived a little early even though I stopped several times including at Starbucks for breakfast and coffee.
The workshop was in the Civic Garden Center, which is right across the street from the Quilt Museum.
The Pacific NW Quilt and Fiber Arts Museum |
The LaConner Civic Garden Club |
Dyes prepared. |
Gail explaining to us how we'll do it. |
And we dyed some perle cotton thread that we'll use on binding our books. |
And my fabrics. |
I finally finished the hand quilting big stitch on the Carpe Diem quilt of improv Hourglass blocks.
I haven't done any hand quilting in decades, at least on anything this big.
I pinned up a sheet of plastic on the work wall and pinned the quilt up, using lots of pins. My purpose was to get it squared up and straight. Then I sprayed it with water to get the blue marking lines to disappear. It took a lot of spraying, some of the marks were a little stubborn, but they all eventually went away.
However, orange from the Aurifil 50wt thread I used for the basting left orange marks and faint lines here and there on the lightest fabric. Very disappointing.
I patted the quilt, while wet, to get the layers to meld together and it looks a lot better now.
So here it is:
Before I sprayed with water, notice the orange dots and faint lines between. |
After water, marking lines are gone, but orange dots still visible. |