Good Morning, Stitchy Peeps! I am feeling clammy and gross and drowning in mucus quantities that have not been seen since the ectoplasm in the movie Ghostbusters. I have an appointment at Urgent Care in an hour and a half, fingers crossed that whatever ick I've got is something that they can treat with medication. Most likely it's COVID since my son just had it and I started getting sick several days after he tested positive, but my husband is just as sick as I am and he has tested negative for COVID four times. Blech, blech, BLECH!
Meanwhile, here's what my design wall looks like three days after Part One of my 2-part Making Prints workshop with Maria Shell:
My Design Wall, 9 AM on Thursday |
Our assignment between classes was to make a bunch of units based on the techniques/"prints" that she demonstrated in class, and put them up on our design walls. Students are permitted to cut their fabric with rulers, but encouraged to try cutting without rulers in order to create more organic, irregular lines with their patchwork. I'm cutting my fabric without rulers and finding that it's more difficult than you'd think to cut crooked and sew crooked on purpose!
My Design Wall, 9 AM on Wednesday |
The irregular striped units above were pieced the first day after class, and they incorporate all of the colors from my palette. Initially we were told to create a 12-color palette, but I asked if I could sneak in more and got permission to do so during the class. The extra colors allowed me to have three shades of brown instead of one and a royal blue as well as light blue. I think I have 15 colors going on. Anyway, when I did this first exercise of randomly pairing up my colors I was really pleased that I liked how pretty much every color looked with every other color in my palette. I struggled to sew my strips together, though -- somehow even though I hadn't cut them straight, they were annoying me by looking straighter after I sewed them together and pressed the seams.