Quilting

[billig]

I've got quite a few projects going.

Today or tomorrow I have to go pick up my 10,000 piece quilt from the State Fair.

I'm part of postmarkdart.com where we sign up for small themed groups and exchange quilted art postcards.
Now we're adding a little diversion where we make one 12" x 12" square of a fabric postcard of one picture (this one will be tree bark) and then we cut it into 6 postcards, keeping one for ourselves and sending the other 5 to the other five members of that theme group and then we'll have 6 versions of treebark that fit back together in a 12" x 12" block.

Yesterday I was out infront of the Textile Center at 7:30 am to stand in line to be one of 50 people to get a packet of fabric to make a special wallhanging for Ikea.
We had to pay $25 to sign up, get four 1-yard piece of Ikea fabric, and we get to make a wallhanging. Anyone who completes theirs by Dec 5 gets a $50 Ikea GC. The wallhangings will be sold to benefit the Textile Center and hang in Ikea sometime in March.
I'd have started on it already, but there's just too much going on in my little life and I've had huge mood swings today. (anybody need somebody killed? I'm in just the right mood!)

For quite a while I've had strips of fabric on my design wall for one of those 'strips and curves' quilts from that book strips and curves.

I have been collecting bright colored wool from thrift stores, felting it and now I'm ready to start braiding a wool rug. I noticed that of all the colors I have, I don't have any orange - pumpkin colors. I know that some Thursday nights at the Textile Center they have the dye lab open to use for like $5 or something. And a gal is there to help. So I think one of these thursdays I'm going head over there with the light-creamy colored wool pieces and dye them in different orange shades.

I've also been collecting something else from thrift stores...velvets. I have tons and tons now, and I have to start making something. I have in mind to make throws, with that quilt top pattern that makes a quilt look 3-d with cubes...kwim? (3 diamond shapes put together with one of the diamonds being light so that it looks like light shining down on boxes). I think this will be a cool effect with the velvet because velvet is a dark shade looking one way, and a light shade when turned upside down. So I figure I can get that 'cube' look.

gawd, I have too much going on, no wonder I can't concentrate on couponing!