Loose Ends

This has been a week of finishing up loose ends. Getting things ready to pack for the trip to MQS and finishing up my Fiberactions challenge piece. I'm happy to say mission accomplished!

And here is a tiny sneak peak of my challenge quilt....the full reveal will be on Tuesday....I'll be posting mine from the airport :)






Hope all the Mother's out there have a wonderful day!

"Sadie"

The second of my Fanta-Sea series .  There are 5 other fish in the series…2 other “girls” and 3 “boys” .  The others will being making their debut in the near future.

“Sadie” is a painted wholecloth quilt. She measures 25 1/2″ x21 1/2″ and was painted with textile paints, inks and pigments on PFD fabric prior to quilting.  She was quilted with Superior threads…Bottom Line and Lava to be exact, and has 2 layers of batting…Quilters Dream Puff and Quilters Dream Wool.  She was finished with a curved, hand painted bias binding and embellished with Swarovski  crystals.



“Sadie”, along with her sister “Henrietta”  is being donated to the IMQA  Audacious Auction for Education being held at MQS on Thursday, May 17,2012 at 7:30pm

"Henrietta"

The first of my Fanta-Sea series .  There are 5 other fish in the series...2 other "girls" and 3 "boys" .  The others will being making their debut in the near future.

"Henrietta" is a painted wholecloth quilt. She measures 23 1/2" x20 1/2" and was painted with textile paints, inks and pigments on PFD fabric prior to quilting.  She was quilted with Superior threads...Bottom Line and Lava to be exact, and has 2 layers of batting...Quilters Dream Puff and Quilters Dream Wool.  She was finished with a curved, hand painted bias binding and embellished with Swarovski  crystals.



 

"Henrietta", along with her sister "Sadie"  is being donated to the IMQA  Audacious Auction for Education being held at MQS on Thursday, May 17,2012 at 7:30pm

Progress

Well, I finished the applique on my Fiberactions quilt today, so it's ready to quilt!  Probably won't happen until Monday...we have a pretty full weekend.

My 2 quilts for the MQS auction are completely done; that means bound,sleeves on, labels on and suitably blinged!  Yeah, I know I made that word up :)

But a good feeling to be done. Photos of them tomorrow.

So.......what should my next show quilt be?

For tonight, I think I'll knit!

Moving On

With the Queen of the Nereids gone on her way to Kansas, it's time to start some new projects as well as getting back to some in progress.  First on the list is a new one. Today I began work on my newest Fiberactions piece.  As you may remember, all our work this round relates to color study, the theme for May is Split-Complementary.  Now  the split-complementary color scheme can be done with either 3 or 5 analogous colors  along with your complement.  I am using 5, and My chosen colors will likely come as no surprise to you.

Turquoise is my chosen complement, so my 5 analogous colors are:

Red, Red-Orange, Orange,Yellow -Orange, and Orange-Yellow.  And I added a touch of black and white.

Yeah, I know...really stepping out of my color box....not!  maybe next time :)
At any rate, I made good progress today.  Got all the pieces cut for my background; did the necessary piecing and applique and finished the background. The applique motifs are drawn, cut and fused ready to be stitched to the background tomorrow.

The reveal is not until the 15th, but here is a look at the fabrics I used.







Any guesses as to what the outcome will be?

 

Shipping Day!

Today  "Queen of the Nereids"  left with the UPS guy on her way to Kansas for MQS.



I'll be following her to MQS on May 15th and hope to see lots of my friends there!

 

Also today I shipped  the "Queen's" entry package off to Houston for the IQA jury process, so keep your fingers crossed!

 

Now it's back to work...got to bind and bling my 2 small auction quilts for MQS  and make my Fiberactions challenge piece that's also due on the 15th.  Guess I better go get busy!!

 

The Queen is Finished!

Totally...and more than 3 weeks before she needs to be shipped!  Yippee !!!  That is a new record for me, as I am usually finishing up the final stitches on a label or sleeve just as the FedEx guy is ringing the doorbell for pickup!

I'm really pleased with her... and though she isn't perfect, she is better in every way than my last  large painted mermaid quilt. What do you think?

Mermaid's Reef (completed in 2006)



 

and Queen of the Nereids (completed this week :) )



All that's left now is to keep my fingers crossed that she does well in competition!