WHY DID I VOLUNTEER

I volunteer to help my niece make these lovely scarfs and i am dreaming about these these.  she is going to be selling these at Sister's Only event in dc at the convention center this Saturday November 6.  making these have taken all my time to the point where i have not done any quilting.  i love my niece, but right now my shoulders are starting to hurt and i have not finish this second pile that she has given me.  and to top it off i have started knitting again, just because i don't have any hand work to do.  i brought this cute little headband that can keep your ears warm and you can also wear it to keep your neck warm also.  i decided that i could make some more instead of  buying a hand full of them.  i am working on this while i ride to and from work on the bus. it takes my mind off all those scarves that i have to make when i get home.   i found a free pattern on the Internet.  it didn't have a flower on the side like the one i brought.  i will add the flower to it.  i will be glad when saturday is over so that i can get back to my quilting.  i have a lot to do.  i have a few challenge quilts that i need to complete. i will keep my mouth shut about helping someone with something like this. it is a whole lot different from quilting.  quilting relaxes me, but doing this is just a lot a stress on me. saturday please hurry up and get here.


stitches for now.

oh and one more thing if you happen to be a the sister's only event stop by and say hi!

yetunde

the skirt

LOL when i saw carol's coment in the last post, i had to LOL.  girl i started to post  a picture of the skirt.  i was just to lazy to take a picture.  one reason i didn't post the clothes because i thought people would rather see quilts. someone else also ask me why i didn't show the skirt.  the pattern is call "stella strip skirt"  no. 103, by serendipity studio.  their web address is SewSerendipity.com.  i made the skirt long. the pattern looked hard to me, but it was quite easy.  so here it is and also a picture the top that i made that is to big.

stitches,

yetunde

ps

carol, you are right i did take the pledge to show the steps of my work and i will.   

busy, busy bee

i have been busy.  for some reason i have been making clothes.  just because i quilt people think that i can make clothes.  if you need a buttonhold or a zipper put in you are out of luck.  a friend came by and wanted me to paint a design on a outfit of hers because she felt that it was to plan looking.  i gave her the paint and showed her how to do it.  i was not going to mess up her outfit.   it was a mess, but lucky enough we were about to wash it out.  in the meantime she decided to buy some small pieces that i had hanging on the wall to sew on the back of her jacket.  after we got her jacket looking good, i was like why didn't i think of doing that.  the next day i was using some ugly fabric that i brought from a ugly fabric auction that wasn't cotton am made me a outfit using black fabric and mudcloth.  i plan to add some shells onto the outfit.  the outfit is to big and it will be taken in some.  i didn't use a pattern.  i also made a pleated skirt from the jello roll strips.  the pattern was from a quilt show that i went to.   i was scared to death of making it, i am not good at following pattern direction. it came out pretty nice.

now as far as the quilting goes, i had made a comment on a quilting site that i was bored and didn't have anything to quilt.  you know what happen, friends ask me to make them a portrait quilt.  now i have three pieces that need to be completed by november. and racheal clark, a quilter from California also asked me to make some portraits of her grandchildren.  i don't do commission quilts.  but this time i am making these because i am bored.  i don't like for people to wait for me to finish something.  if i am in the mood to make something i will, but if i am not in the mood it is know telling when a person will get something from me.
i have been trying to do the portraits with the different colors and i have been having problems with the skin tone.  i didn't like the pieces that i made.  i am still working on that.

so here is a portrait of a friend's mother, for her mother's birthday that is next month. my friend tried to make it herself and couldn't make.  when she comes into town i am going to take time to show her how to make these.

i have not quilted it yet but i will be finish by november.

stitches for now

yetunde

1.6 million African American Quilters

 check out Kyra Hicks new book.  she talks about the statistics of how many African American do quilt and are quilters. the fact that we do spend money on quilting.  she also give you a list of African American guilds, quilting books by African American and a whole list of African American quilter who have websites and blogs on the Internet.  Kyra also added 6 quilting blocks by Francine Haskins.  for this book to be so little it is full of great information about us that i didn't know.  i enjoyed the book it was very easy to understand and read.  check it out.  also this blog is mention in her book.

stitches

yetunde

ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS.

the Bob Marley quilt was used by using the "PHOTO-INSPIRED ART QUILTS: From Composition to finished Piece", book.  i took a class from Bisa Butler at a retreat several months ago on this same technique but using different types of fabric to give it a different look.  i just needed the book to give me a little more understanding of what i was doing.  the other technique i use is by Maria Elkins, she has a DVD that she is selling to teach her technique.  you can find her on the Internet.

the Bob Marley is a picture from a t-shirt.  my old t-shirt has bob marley with a black background. but i saw this one in a store and took a picture of it with my phone and enlarge the picture. 

someone asked what type of fusible web i was using and i am still trying to find the right one for me.  i like to use ulltra heat n bond because it give me a sharp smooth cut. but what i don't like about it is, that it makes the quilt very stiff from the fabric layers that i use.  steam n seam give me the feel i want but not the sharpness. so i am still playing with that.  so i hope that i answered every ones questions.  i am a work, still sick and can't wait until lunch timesoi can take a nap.  friday i am taking the day off and going to my cousin's beach house and i hope i can get some rest there.

stitches

yetunde

i have a cold

yes, i have a very bad cold.  i went to the doctor and the medicine is just not working fast enough for me.  so i am just going to show pictures.

i hope you like.

stitches,

yetunde

bob marley

that's right i am working on a bob marley piece.  at first i started to trace the picture to get my pattern that i wanted to work on. but i change my mind and cut directly from the picture.  so i had to print a couple copies of the picture.  the fabric was fused and the fabric was temporaryly adhesive to the picture.  i cut out the different shades of the picture.  all most just like the other technique that i do.  i posterize the picture, and i did not grayscale the picture.  i left the picture just as it is and posterize it in color and just cut out the different shades.

i use a light box to help me lay the pieces in it right place by having a picture on top of the light box.  here is what i have done so far. 

check me out later. it is late and i have to go to work in the  morning.

stitches for now

yetunde