For our enjoyment, today I ‘ featuring the wrought iron doors at the entry to the fish markets in the old part of Panama City, Panama.
I might have posted them a couple of years back, but they’re so lovely that they bear being shown again. It was January 2013, and OMG it was hot and humid!
With the ghastly weather this week I’ve been able to put some serious time into this next work in the Bungle Bungles series – adding gold painted dots to the pieced shapes, of what will be #7.
This only a small section of it, of course, maybe 25cm square, but the piecing’s almost all done. There’s more paint needed in places, then it will be ready to layer and quilt. I’m tossing up whether to hand or machine quilt this time, but will have decided by the time I get there. I have the next one in mind …
Scrolling down through lots of beach photos, patterns, offerings, debris and some of the mysterious things I’ve seen on our local beach, I came across the pic of a dead fish (on the right) surrounded by disturbed sand in which busy little creatures were preparing lunch. I’ve always loved this photo though I haven’t been into this file for a while. Scrolling down further I came across the exact same photo that some time, somehow, I’d fiddled with and turned the background to charcoal/black. I don’t remember doing whatever I did, but I really like the effect.
Whatever I did do, though, it was several years ago, before I knew the slightest thing about photoshop. I’m not even interested in backtracking to find out exactly what I did, I just publish them today for our enjoyment, for, remember, this blog is my visual diary as much as anything else!
I recently quilted a large wall quilt in gold, and have been experimenting with gold dots and other things in gold paint. Nothing of that to show just now,but today I came across this snippet I’d completely forgotten from a few years ago – with silver stitching along the edges of the slivers. It’s unusually delicate for me – and unfortunately I don’t have any more of the grey fabric, but one or two other yummy bits would serve just as well.
I really can’t remember what I had in mind when I started it, though nothing large I can assure you!!! since this piece measures approx . 15 x 25cm only, and those slivers are about 1cm widest and about 6-7cm long. It’s set me thinking, though, about the next “Ebb & Flow” quilt.
Martha Ginn commented on double needle gold quilting (previous post) and I sent her an email about using a triple needle threaded with gold metallic, too. Then thought I’d post this rather technical post as there could be others interesting in using multi-needles with metallics sometime. In the Schmetz brand they’re called ‘Drilling’ for some reason, and they are expensive – expect to pay at least US$10 per unit !!! so take care when working with them. And as for threads, I have no idea of the brand of large economical cones I found ages ago in Australia, but Sulky and the YLI have worked well for me in the past.
Triple needling gives a great outline, as in this snippet from a recent work –
Whenever I use metallics I always follow these steps –
