Fabric Choices
The success of this technique, I think, depends a lot on the fabric choices. You have to be willing to audition and reject those that just don’t quite do the job.
(June 15 – have been having computer problems and apparently this photo is lost. Imagine lots of little pieces, all in a pile with hopes that they might be recut to fit somewhere else)
All of those little bits at the upper left are some of the pieces that weren’t quite right for the spot they were cut for. They may work somewhere else later but they may be too small to re-cut and will end up in the trash. That’s OK. Better to trash them than to use them if they are not right.
Yesterday I finished the piecing of the dogs and put away all that fabric. The cutting table looks so much better and I have room to play with the big background pieces. I have a wonderful hand dye, bought at Festival in Houston with the background of this piece in mind. It is gray and white and will work great, I think, for the snowy background. But it is only one yard, probably not enough. Challenges like that keep things interesting!
Tags: Dogs, Fabric, Komondor, work in progress
January 25th, 2013 at 11:12 am
piecing on the gray corded dog is really wonderful…
January 26th, 2013 at 10:21 am
Thank you Susan. He is a Komondor and they are always white, in his case, dirty white! But they do look different in the shadows and can reflect the colors around them. The best instance of this was one early morning when it was still kind of dark and he looked pink from the sunrise. I didn’t get a photo but did think at the time that it would make a good quilt.
February 2nd, 2013 at 10:01 am
oh, Ruth I hate to tell you.
I had a fat quarter of this a while ago but found it uninteresting and it was then overdyed, discharged and painted. I was recently gifted a large number of fat quarter bundles that I have not yet investigated. I will dig into the box and see if this one, or a close cousin, is in the latest batch.