free motion quilting

for those of you who like to do free motion quilting check out on the right hand side of my blog INSPIRING PLACES and go to 365 DAYS OF FREE MOTION QUILTING and PATSY THOMPSON blog site these lady's will inspire you to do more free motion quilting. i am having fun at their blog. check them out it won't hurts.

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yetunde

my doodling art

last week at work, after i had finished my work, i started doodling on some paper. i realized that it was looking nice. so i thought maybe i could do this on fabric. i photo copy the picture onto photo fabric but the picture was not sharp. so i doodle the picture onto fabric. first i had to try different ink pens to see which pen would not bleed through the fabric. canvas fabric seem to work but i didn't like the fact that the fabric is not smooth looking. so i doodled onto a roll of photo fabric. and it worked ok, but now i have to buy some more photo fabric on a roll and no one seem to carry photo fabric on a roll around here any more. so it looks like i will have to order the roll of fabric. i kind of like doing this so i also did some adinka symbols. now i am try to decide how i am going to quilt this or add some kind of boarder to what i have done so far. i cut the lady out and fuse the lady onto black fabric.

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yetunde

another UFO completed

here is another UFO that i have completed. what i had was some red work patterns that i got from a quilt flea market. i did the pieces with black thread instead of red and didn't know what to do with them. and a couple of weeks ago i had some of my sistah quilter friends over for a cook out and i showed them another unfinish african red work piece i had been working on and was thinking about teaching it at the retreat we had in april. everyone said i should have taught it at the retreat. i didn't think anyone what to do any hand work at the retreat, so i taught thread painting. but now i find out that i was wrong. after listening to them i decide to find my other pieces and complete the quilt and this is what i have. it is call MOTHERLAND.

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yetunde

PASSION

passion
yesterday i went to a lecture to see faith ringgold, http://www.faithringgold.com/ a quilt artist. her work is just beautiful. listening to her made me realize that i was not wrong about how i feel about my quilting. i do not miss one day without working on a quilt. she stated that she has to feel the quilt; she has to have that passion to make it. if i don't have that passion in me, i can't make it. when i had a year to make the slave quilt, that quilt was not in me to make. i did not feel the passion or see a view of how to go about making this quilt. the passion and idea on how to make this quilt did not come to me until four months before it was due. i could see and feel what needed to be done to make this quilt. others had confidence in me and knew that i could make this quilt. but i did not have that passion and confidence to do it. i am the type of person who once have an idea for a quilt and that passion is their, i can complete that quilt in a day or two or less than three weeks. when i made blood on your hands, about the girls kilt by the hands of their mother their was truly a passion in me to make that piece. if it is more than a month, i loss the passion to completing it. but there are times when i will completely stop working on a piece and stare at it for days and try to figure out what is missing and how can i make it better. once i figure out what is missing the passion is even more there for me to get it just the way i want it. and it gets completed. i love quilting so much that a lot of my idea doesn't get made because my passion on how to make something has not come into vision for me. there are quilts out there that i want to make but i just don't know how to make them the way i invision them.

quilting is my passion!

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yetunde

PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE

i finally finished my people are people quilt. i was trying to do the wording by machine and it was really looking crazy. so i did the wording by hand. i truly believe that people are people no matter what color they are. this piece was fun making and i have a few friends who want me to make patterns for them. all i have to do is print the pictures that i drew and explain how i did the people. i don't do eyes, nose or mouth i am not that good at drawing. i would love to learn how to draw more realistic pictures.

here is some good news, a friend sent me a email telling me that roland freeman (author of A Communion of Spirts: African-American Quilter, Preservers, and their stories) was looking for people who made Obama quilt. the congressional black caucus and the mayor's office of dc have asked that the Obama exhitition be extened to the end of september. the show should have ended in july. some of the quilters were not willing to extend their loaner aggreement for another month. and he was looking for about five more quilts to display. so i call and both of my Obama quilts are now in the exhibit. their is one thing i can say about quilters, we do look out for each other.

do you remember these two pieces. of all things i don't think these are my best pieces.

Donnette thanks for tell him about me.

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yetunde

people are people

i am working on a piece call people are people. i will show the completed piece in a couple of days. i came about making this piece because as i was growing up, i was seeing how people were treating people just because they were different. because of the color of their skin, because they are gay, disable, or their beliefs are different from theirs. some of these feels are still among us. people still hating. but then their are people who just see people as people and that is what i try to see in people. i try not to judge, but it is hard when you see things that you know are not right out here in this world. people are people know matter what color or who they are.

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yetunde

this is what i have been doing

twisted sister thread painting challenge

well i had to get a new laptop. the old laptop crashed again. so while i didn't have a computer for a couple of weeks, this is what i have been doing. i made a quilt for my niece. a quilt pattern call twisted sister. i am not good at following patterns but this came out pretty good. and i used a long arm quilting machine to do the quilting. and i loved it, i can not wait to make a larger quilts to quilt on the long arm machine.

i also completed the thread painting mask, i was working on. i had fun doing that. during this time i also practice doing machine quilting stitches. like the feather stitch on a quilt, which i am still have problems try to get perfect. i want to practice quilting patterns so that when i work on the long arm, i will feel comfortable working on it. while working on the long arm, i saw things that i needed to improve on. so i just want to practice, practice doing pattern for the long arm quilting.

while i was at my family Reunion, i had a friend submitted a quilt for me, in a quilt challenge in the family day community festival. this is a festival that the quilting bee that i am in participate in. it is a quilt challenge and the community vote for the best. my quilt won first place. the theme for this challenge was music. i did tons of bead work on this piece. my husband told me that i better not sell this one.

a friend of a friend ask me if i would put some of my quilts into their quilt show that they are having next friday at their church. this will be their second quilt show. they are a small quilting bee and they would like to have a couple of art quilt on display. they are more traditional quilters. and she want something a little more different from what they do. if you are in the dc area come by Union Temple Baptist church on W street se. friday july 31, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. i have never seen any of their work so i don't know what to expect. i was told that they are a beginner iwho also sew in this group. so if you have time stop on by and give these ladies some encouragement.

stitches,

yetunde