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Momiji Studio: June 2015
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Quilting tales and other creative adventures. Finished Quilts, 2010-present. Finished Quilts, 1990-2009. Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Yes, it has been a while. The day job took me away from home for all of March and April, and I was too lazy to do anything on-line in May. But my quilt "Indigo Summer" is in Lethbridge for this year's National Juried Show. Prep work in progress. Discharged fabric in the neutralizing solution. Not bad, huh? The colors don't have the depth, richness, and sophistication of indigo, ...
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Momiji Studio: July 2015
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Quilting tales and other creative adventures. Finished Quilts, 2010-present. Finished Quilts, 1990-2009. Wednesday, July 22, 2015. Yes, I still remember how to quilt. Although I haven't been in the blogosphere much lately, that doesn't mean I haven't been getting my hands dirty. In addition to indigo dyeing, I've also been working on a bed quilt, which I started basting last night:. Linking up to WIP Wednesday on Freshly Pieced. And The Needle and Thread Network. Monday, July 20, 2015. Says that he gets ...
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Momiji Studio: February 2015
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Quilting tales and other creative adventures. Finished Quilts, 2010-present. Finished Quilts, 1990-2009. Wednesday, February 4, 2015. WIP Wednesday: Log Cabin quilt. The colors are really a lot more attractive in person, although the green and blue are both of a certain range of darker shades that make them hard to distinguish in low light. I think the greens were some kind of yellow that was overdyed with indigo, which would explain why they tend to blend so easily with the blues. Textiles, quilts, and ...
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Momiji Studio: From the vat: Nui shibori
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Quilting tales and other creative adventures. Finished Quilts, 2010-present. Finished Quilts, 1990-2009. Sunday, August 2, 2015. From the vat: Nui shibori. I had three more pieces of nui shibori which I put through an additional four rounds of dipping and oxidizing before carefully undoing the stitching. The results were thrilling. First of all, here's my pride and joy, a selvage-to-selvage quarter-yard piece using a technique that I learned from Jane Callender last fall:. August 2, 2015 at 10:38 AM.
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Momiji Studio: Indigo 2015: The vat
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Quilting tales and other creative adventures. Finished Quilts, 2010-present. Finished Quilts, 1990-2009. Saturday, July 18, 2015. Indigo 2015: The vat. I've been lazy about blogging, but I've been busy with this summer's indigo dyeing. This year I'm trying a zinc-lime vat, which takes time to set up, but is supposed to produce deeper, richer blues than the thiox vat. In mid-June, I prepared my first stock solution:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Apart from the career that keeps a roof over my head,...
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Momiji Studio: From the indigo vat: Solids
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Quilting tales and other creative adventures. Finished Quilts, 2010-present. Finished Quilts, 1990-2009. Monday, July 20, 2015. From the indigo vat: Solids. I'm always like to test the vat out by dyeing a range of solids:. From left to right, the six shades involved, respectively, 3, 4, 5, 8, 14, and 20(! Cycles of dipping and oxidizing. The 4- and 5-dip pieces were done separately from the rest of the lot, after I saw some final results and wanted to fill in a couple of gaps in the gradation. I also can...
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Momiji Studio: Finished Quilts, 2010-present
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Quilting tales and other creative adventures. Finished Quilts, 2010-present. Finished Quilts, 1990-2009. Finished Quilts, 2010-present. Oakshott Lattice," 2015:. 20" x 20"; Oakshott shot cottons; cotton batting; machine pieced and quilted. Boro #1," 2015:. 17" x 21-1/4"; vintage and new Japanese kasuri cottons and cotton blends; cotton batting; machine pieced and quilted. Indigo Summer," 2015:. Shibori Study #2: Modular Quilt," 2014:. Shibori Study #1," 2014:. With shibori techniques, hand-quilted. 32" x...
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Momiji Studio: Finished! "Indigo Summer"
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Quilting tales and other creative adventures. Finished Quilts, 2010-present. Finished Quilts, 1990-2009. Wednesday, January 28, 2015. Indigo Summer" is finished, binding and all:. I loved every moment of making "Indigo Summer," from the dyeing of the fabrics, to the improvised piecing, to the hand-quilting, and then, finally, the faced binding. It's quite a stunning quilt, if I do say so myself. I'm thinking of entering it in the National Juried Show of Quilt Canada 2015. And The Needle and Thread Network.