The Loot

I've received all bar one shipment from my ebay dealings and am busting at the seams with ideas!

This is the loot:

A lot of what you can see is Bassetti fabric that I will turn into plaids. I've bought fleece blankets and bed linen as wadding and backing. Now all I need is a big table to get to work.


At the right hand side you see mainly decorative silks used for curtains and cushion covers. I'll use some of that as background for my first art quilt. There's also some embroidered silk fabric, also meant for soft furnishings, which I will use for whatever. And then plenty of green organza. I originally wanted soft pink / rose coloured organza so we shall see.

I'm getting closer to obtaining a "studio"

or rather a work space. We will be moving this summer, hence there is a work room in my near future. A finished quilt? Not so much!

Sucked into the vortex ...

as I am awaiting delivery of fabric purchased through ebay. I'm already toying around with layer ideas based on the lay-out I found. Gerrie's Eighth Sin quilt was a great source of ideas. Her posts on how she actually created the quilt have been insightful and inspiring.

I now am thinking about where I source the rest of the materials and how/where I get photos transfered onto fabric. And I'm wondering whether or not I should toy around with design ideas on paper or not. I'm reluctant to at the moment because I think I'll hinder my creative "juices" by getting too definite. So I think I'll stay away from that. All I have at the moment is a b/w print-out of Lynne Heller's quilt.

All I need now is a studio ;-)

Inspiration

Check out Crazy for Fiber, Gerrie's blog. It's very inspiring. I have already picked up ideas for my art quilt and will keep my trap shut until I have actually started work on it.

Hopefully, Gerrie will shed some light onto how she does this and that.

Progress is being made ...

While I'm happily stitching away on my baby quilt / play mat, I'm also awaiting shipment of silks purchased for my artsy quilt project that I hope to have finished much more quickly than the others because I will be using my sewing machine mostly.

"I'm going slightly mad ..."

is what Freddy Mercury said while he was on AIDS medication. Apparently that's what it does to you at times ...

With me, it's ebay or more specifically Italian Bassetti fabrics on ebay. I'm bidding and bidding and bidding and just cannot get enough.

On page 123 it says ...

"Back when I got into photography, camera dealers tried to sell camera buyers a normal lens with the camera body."

Taken from "The complete Idiot's Guide to Photography like a Pro", second edition.

Instructions found on the Crazy for Fiber blog owned by Gerrie:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you