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New Work

Finally. It feels good to be creating again! Last week I finished the sketchBurningsketch

 

and started to pull some fabrics from the stash. We have thousands of different fabrics; isn’t it amazing that our brains have logged it all and we know what is there, and pretty much where it should be! So I spent extra time looking for the one that I could not find, and finally it turned up, hidden inside a stack of similar color – right where it should be!

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There are lots more fabrics here than I will actually use and probably more still on the shelf that haven’t called to me yet.

The next day I transferred the design to the freezer paper in the reverse so that when the pieces are ironed to the backside of the fabric they will be in the proper orientation.

Freezerpaper

This step has to be followed by marking the pattern to aid in matching the pieces for sewing.

Marked

Before quitting for the day, I had to cut just one piece!

firstcut

This is going to be another prairie fire quilt, to replace the one that sold after winning one of the top awards at Houston a few years ago. It will be of similar orientation, but with curved seams instead of straight, and perhaps a night scene instead of daytime. Stay tuned for progress reports……..

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2 Responses to “New Work”

  1. Martha Ginn Says:
    January 15th, 2015 at 4:56 pm

    Ruth, how exciting to think we will be able to watch and follow along on your process in making the new prairie fire quilt. Thanks for sharing from the beginning! I met you and the quilt at Houston 2012 and remember the quilt as one of the all-time favorites I have seen.
    Brown dog still eating at your buffet?

  2. Ruth Powers Says:
    January 16th, 2015 at 8:57 am

    Hi Martha, thanks for the reminder for BrownDog, I will update you!