Deborah Levy Art

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

I can't believe it's been this long since I've posted! Well, had to get a new desktop...the laptop just wasn't cutting it for all the video editing and rendering for my classes. Got a new state of the art quad core with 8 gb of memory, 750 gb HD and vista 64 bit. Dedicated video memory too..This should cut my rendering time by 2/3's.

So now I'm transferring everything and all my programs to the new machine...a time consuming process, but so worth it. There are, however some programs that are not equipted to work with 64 bit vista....but all in all...a good change. Since I haven't posted any quilts lately, here is one I recently finished for a client...she does impeccable applique... I really wanted to keep this...such gorgeous applique work. But, I gave it back..... I did nothing but background fill, she didn't want quilting in the applique, I did quilt inside the compass.

I'll be back on schedule here soon. Have a great night! And enjoy the last night of March.

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

More wool cut

Today I finished up the die cuts to send to Mother. Isn't this a cute birdie!

And I love these whimsical leaves

These flower shapes are great alone or nested...can even be used fun suns!

This flower is a pretty shape too

And last some circles!

It's all packed up now with the ones I cut yesterday and will be shipped off tomorrow. That should keep her busy for a while, don't you think?

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Monday, March 16, 2009

Mail!

The mailman brought me two new postcards today....this one from Mother. Look at all those beads!

And this one from Mary, this one sure speaks to me!

Thank you both, I love them!

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die cut wool appliques

I was talking to Mother last night and she had been reading my blog. She was very interested in the die cutter. So I promised her I'd do some cutting and send her some. So this morning I pulled out some wool and started cutting some leaves....

a birdie, butterfly and dragonfly....

some hearts....

a few stars....

and some daisies.

I'll work on a few more shapes tomorrow and get them in the mail on Wednesday. Do you think that will keep you busy for a while, Mother? And if there is more than you need, I'm sure Ann would be happy to take some off your hands!

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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Discovery

One of the most incredible things about living in South Florida are the shuttle launches. From our house, we can see the shuttle in the Northeast sky 1 minute and 10 secs after launch from the Kennedy Space center.

The coolest launches are the night launches...the sky just erupts like fire!

Tonight, just a few minutes ago Discovery was launched...1 min and 10secs later, it lit up our sky. It was just after sunset, so not as spectacular as a night launch, but still enough to watch the fireball and see that huge contrail from the earth to the edge of space.

I never tire of sights such as this.

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March postcards

Here are my postcards for March. The flowers and leaves are wool....the shapes cut with my new die cutter. Boy is it fun!

Now I'm off to finish the edges so they can go in the mail tomorrow!

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The die cutter saga

I had all but entered my credit card in the ordering process for the accu cut studio. My friend came in just at that time and said Wait! She asked what I was going to use it for...selling fabric shapes? I said no...just for me. So she took me over to her house. She said she had a better idea. So I listened and watched and was convinced. Now I'm ordering the accu cut Go cutter, but I also bought this. The Sizzix Big Kick. And a bunch of dies. The dies have thick steel blades designed to cut thick things, like fabric, foam, craft metal, chipboard, etc. It has a 3 year warranty and is on sale right now at JoAnn fabrics for $49.99. It was $59.99 last week when I ordered mine) The dies are also on sale. It is 12" wide(including the roller handle) and 15" long. The rollers are also steel. It comes with a set of cutting pads, and I bought an extra set (for $5)

I bought a total of 15 dies. (For cutting fabric, wool, foam,etc) you need the "original" or "Bigz" dies. There are hundreds of them.

And then I started cutting. I fused wonder under to the back of fabrics and left the paper on (though you don't need too) and cut 3 layers of fabric backed with the fusible and paper at a time. Perfect clean cuts every time. Then i took the paper off and cut 5 layers of fabric. Just look at all my pretty shapes!