this one on my own /tip for the day

well, i decided to try bisa butler's technique in portrait quilting by myself.  i love it, it is so easy not trying to find skin tone fabric to make a portrait.  any kind of fabric will do, so long as you use light to dark fabric to make the portrait.  i hope you like it.

TIP FOR THE DAY

if you have a iphone or a droid phone, guess what you can now download a quilt shop locator application and it is  FREE..  this app will give you location of any quilt shop in the united states.  check it out. The new Quilt Shop Locator app is here and FREE!  for more information.  i just looked on my phone application and found it.  i  download it and typed in the state that i live in and i could not believe we had that many quilt shops in maryland.  still playing with it, i have not decide if i like it yet, but it doesn't hurt to try something FREE.  a friend gave me this little tip for the day.

stitches for now.

yetunde

quilts challenge

my quilt challenge is still with linda and i am just getting started.  first let me just say, i must get my fabric organized.  i brought some solid fabric a couple of weeks ago and i am just now finding.  i call myself putting it somewhere where i could find it quickly.  that did not happen.   here are my solid colors.

i know what i want to do, i just need to be able to do it in a 15 inch square. i am cutting some strips and sewing them together and then cut them out into two circles and i am still trying to decide what color i want for the background.

check me out in a couple of days and see what i come up next on this challenge.

stitches for now,

yetunde 

birthday treats

my  birthday is not until wednesday july 20th, since i have to work on the 20th. my husband and friend's treated me to some nice things early.  dinner, friday and saturday night, two books, one on vegetarian cooking and another on how to make juices and smoothies, i just love both of them, don't know which one to look at first.  i love smoothies and i have been trying out new cooking dishes when i am not quilting. well sunday a friend treated me to a fabric painting workshop.  i had told her that i was planing to take this class and she told be to stop by her house before the class, and she gave me the money for the class.  nice gift ,if i must say so, since i didn't have to pay.  well blog family the class was great.  it was given by kweli, from african american fabrics.  her blog is africanamericanfabrics.blogspot.com.  she makes and sales her own fabric.  check her out, she is having up coming classes.  you  can also find her on facebook. the class was outside and the weather was great, not to hot.  she showed us how to make stencils and stamps, how to use glue to make a stamp, household items.  things around the house.  kweli, showed us about six different ways on how to design our fabric.  all of us in the class made beautiful fabric.  i wanted to take all the pieces that everyone made home. they were so pretty.

 check out how much fun we had.(click for close up)

picking out fabric to dye or paint

this is my piece that i am painting blue on the fabric

kweli, watching someone taking her suggestion on what to do with their fabric. 

kweli, taking pictures of our pieces while they are drying.

now the whole time that this lady was working on  her piece she kept saying that she didn't like her piece.  when she first started i was liking it.  now that she completed it she likes it.  she could not see how pretty it was until she finished. here is someone else pieces.  she use a heart stamp on her piece. 

these are two pieces that i made. and yes, i make my own stamps to do my design,  the face is from my pouch, that kweli showed us how to do with some foam and a hot air gun. 

i plan to taking another class from kweli,  she has a digital fabric making class coming up soon and i am going to try to take that soon.  great class, fun and easy.  check her out at her facebook, or her blog for information on date for classes.  she is in rockville, maryland and she also teaches at g street fabric.

stitches for now.

yetunde

bisa butler

i took bisa butler's class today, and it was great.  her class is college portrait workshop.  we all had a great time.  linda, from "eatsleepquilt" blog was also in the class.  it was about 10 or 12 of us in her class. she showed us how to pick our fabric and cut out the pieces. she told us how to draw our pattern. their were two pictures that we could choose  this is the one that i decided on, jill scott.

i am working on the face in this picture.  the main piece that i really had to take my time cutting out was the eyes.  on the right corner of the mouth, i am trying to get right.

working on the head piece here.

just finishing the neck.

added the blouse and finishing necklace.  some of the necklace pieces will be in 3D.  when i finish the entire piece i will post it. 

here are few pictures of us working in the workshop.  also if you are interested in taking her class, she is having the same workshop at her studio on july 16 next saturday.  check her facebook for information. here are a few pictures of us working hard, but having fun.  almost forgot, the workshop was at the fabric peddlers, Nadine's shop in maryland. nadine, served us breakfast and a great lunch. bisa came down from phillie or maybe it was new jersey. i can't remember.  the last four pictures are pictures of bisa's art work.

linda work hard

this is the other picture that someone is working on.

renee work hard also.

these last four are bisa butler's pieces. enjoy! the first one here, she is still working on it.

stitches for now,

yetunde

quilt challenge

this is a art painting,that my friend linda over at eat, sleep, quilt blog has asked me to do a quilt challenge with her.  this is the painting that we are going to use.  she is doing the same challenge with a group of quilter's on another blog.  so check out her blog for more details about the challenge.  so i said ok.  the challenge is to take an art painting and make a quilt using only SOLID COLORS.  REPEAT SOLID COLORS. i am thinking ok this is easy. you can change the art work to your interpretation of the art work. but it must be solid colors.  my problem is that i only have in my solid stash fabric, is black, red, and a small piece of white.and two or three brown tones, what the heck can a sistah do with that.  we are not suppose to buy any fabric, but use what you have.  my stash color is ugly, you hear me, ugly.  so i am going to take myself to a quilt shop and buy myself some solid fabric.  now if this challenge was about using prints, african fabric, batiks anything but solids, i would not have to go to a quilt shop. solid fabric is not really my thing.  now if it is batik, solid black, know problem.  hey, a sistah like me will buy the whole bulk of michael miller black.  black is my favorite choice of fabric.  so just to let you know there will be some black in this piece.  and the challenge is due the first of august.  i will post how it is coming along until the first of august when i will give it to linda.

stitches for now

yetunde

comments

thank you all for your comments, i do read them.  sherise, i do have marilyn belford book and i do use her technique.  my problem is this technique takes longer to do vs the other technique that i do.  i just have to realize if i want it to be right i just have to take my time. whether i can finish it in a couple of hours or a couple of day.  i just want it to look right.  now for the person who left a comment and know my creative history.  why aren't you telling me who you truly are.  i have a idea who you are call me. i use to crochet and knit hats with people name or crazy design on them with funny shapes.  a few local well know singers would request hats from me.  i would also go into stores look at a sweater, go home and make that same sweater.  that is another time another day.  quilting is my passion now.  i truly started have problems with my hands. 

community day went great, no rain.  the motown quilt challenge was fun.  i could only name a few of the song and some of them i just didn't know what the name of the song.  my motown song quilt was "tears of a clown".  and it tied for first place for the peoples choice award.  we also gave two movie ticket to the person who could guess the name of the song to the quilts.  out of 16 motown quilts, two people got 11 songs right.  we also hung other quilts other than the motown quilts.  

here are a few picture of that day.  tears of a clown, wee bee quilters, (i am the one holding quilt), my newest piece as of now. and my t-shirt quilt.  i had 12 pieces hanging up that day.

we had a great time

stitches for now.

yetunde

computer problems and been busy

i am back, i have been very busy.  and have been having computer problems.  i have been working on a couple of quilts to send to some children in africa.  no pictures because pictures were lost.  i have finally finished a quilt that i am working on that will be on display for community day at michigan park rec center on june 18th. the quilt theme is motown.  we are to make a quilt base on a motown song.  i can not wait to see what everyone else has made.  sorry folks, i can't show this quilt until after june 18th.  i am  also working on a red and white quilt challenge and that is driving me crazy.  i have tried several time to come up with an idea for a red and white quilt.  this red and white is not my favorite  color.  this is due in december.  so i still have time to come up with something.  i am still doing zentangle and here is a picture of my zentangle quilt.  i plan to finish this by next week.  i came in first place to call bingo on a zentangle group site.  two other women also won.  i am suppose to get the super prize it is suppose to be deliver next we.  it will be zentangle items.

stitches for now

yetunde

ps
if you are in dc stop by michigan park on the 18th, free food, games, bingo, moon bounce and quilts hanging on clothes line a beautiful site to see.     and didn't say it is free.