Infected by the Art Virus

... and here I am, with neither the time nor the space to do it. But I recently came across Lynne Heller's site and quilts and now my head is full of ideas for a "history quilt" based on this one called

"... there has been order in this house"

(c) Lynne Heller

All for nothing!

So here I am, back from my hols, with a stuffed up head, clogged nose, no voice to speak of ... and no quilting done whatsoever. Considering the hours I put into preparing swatches of fabric, washing them, ironing them etc, this is rather disappointing.

Will get back on track once this bug has left

Some things were not meant to be ...

which is why I have uninstalled Haloscan. Quite a short life cycle, that! But the blog looks cleaner and I will just have to live with the non-speed and (in)availability of blogger commenting.

I have installed TrackBack

and have to confess that I have no idea whatsoever what TrackBack actually is. HaloScan's FAQ is down too, which isn't exactly helping. Also, I find that I don't exactly like how it's looking at the moment. Do I have to lose my old comments in order to make it look somewhat more respectable?

I will therefore turn to things about which I know a *little* bit more ... quilting ... and my new hand quilting frame. Drool!

But if anyone passing by this post knows what TrackBack is, please enlighten me!!!

I'm speechless!

Look at this, this is a *quilt*!!!



It was made by Debra Danko. Have a look at her other works, they are fab!

Mel's Fusing 101

Thank you for posting your Fusing 101 including the action shots. Unfortunately, I cannot comment at the moment, some blogger.com problem.

fibermania.blogspot.com/2005/03/fusing-101_10.html

The lay-out's done!

The individual images will be applied to individual patches that will then be patches together according to this layout. In the middle there will be a quilted "centrepiece" in an Indian-of-sorts (as in the country, not the Native Americans) design which I have yet to find. There will also be quilting around each applied image. So no sashing ...

Update: I've hopefully found a source for the centre piece:



I already have their book on Art Nouveau designs and though it is quite slim, it's packed with designs for all kinds of purposes. All are just black and whites therefore ideal for quilting and loads of other endeavours.

I will now have to iron it all so that I can take the patches on "hols" with me.