Saturday, September 12, 2009

Fall Fun




Today I was at two of my quilt guild's fall workshops, making mitred placemats with Ursula Riegel and doing mosaic applique with Susan Teece. The power went out before we could start sewing, but fortunately went on in time for us to at least do some, and what a pleasure that was. Neither of the projects above are finished - the placemat that is shown back and front needs topstitching and there are 5 more to complete. I created the background for my elephant scene last night and the work in the class was tracing and outlining the image I brought onto my background, followed by snipping and positioning fused bits. I want the elephant to have an almost drawn look - and to be ephemeral as they are an endangered species. I plan to make it into a small quilt.


2 comments:

Laura said...

Hi Yvonne
Thanks for sharing your work.
I like the impact of your elephant - it really does read ephemeral!
I'm glad everyone was good natured about the power outage. Apparently it was a substation problem, so fairly wide spread.
See you soon.

Yvonne said...

Thanks, Laura - I thought it was a great day of learning and the power outage left more time for cutting placemat pieces.