{"id":1609,"date":"2011-10-03T09:53:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T14:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2011-10-03T10:08:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T15:08:53","slug":"majesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=1609","title":{"rendered":"“Majesty”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tried to get into my blog yesterday but I guess it was down for some reason.<\/p>\n

I finished “Majesty”, 35.5 x 42″, last week and wanted to post the pictures! This is the first time that I have done a faced edge instead of a binding.<\/p>\n

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I am not sure about facings. I read that it gives a more “art” finish and less of a “quilt” finish. It does hang very nicely. It takes longer and there is more hand work because whereas when I do a binding I insert the raw edges of the sleeve under the binding and sew by machine, with the facing method I had to sew all of the sleeve edges by hand. All of the facing edges are hand sewn as well, just like a binding would be. We had the most gorgeous weather last week though, so I was able to sit outside for two afternoons and do the hand work.<\/p>\n

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It’s done except for hand sewing the twinkle in his eye – what you see here is the white head of a pin that I use to see where the stitches should go. I am pretty happy with the way it came out. There is a LOT of quilting on it!<\/p>\n

Saturday I took a workshop with Patty Hawkins from Colorado through the Kansas Art Quilters; she has had many entries accepted to Quilt National, and the subject was landscape, so I thought it might be fun even though it was on raw edge bonded applique\/collage which is not a method I enjoy. I was hoping to learn something, which of course I did! It’s always nice to just get away for a while and play. Here’s my start on a piece from a photo that I took on our Alaska trip.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’m so lucky to have such a nice stash of “nature” type fabrics to work with! In fact I have so much fabric it is overflowing the space I have to store it so I was very happy last week to hear of a local group making clothing for Haiti that was in need of fabric. I boxed up two large boxes of calico type prints that don’t really work for me anymore in the type of work I do now.\u00a0 They would have been quite expensive to ship somewhere, so I was really happy to have found some place local to take it. A win-win situation for both of us! And now most of what is left fits on the shelves!!<\/p>\n

I was accepted to participate in “Seasonal Palette” an exhibit through Studio Art Quilt Associates which will debut in Houston next fall and travel for a year or so after that. Thirty-eight were accepted out of hundreds of entries. We each will make a piece that measures 32″ wide by 78″ high and my assigned season is winter. So, as I have been going through the fabrics for stuff to give away and stuff for the workshop, I have been pulling out possibilities for this new work. I am starting to feel excited about it and anxious to get started……<\/p>\n

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I tried to get into my blog yesterday but I guess it was down for some reason. I finished “Majesty”, 35.5 x 42″, last week and wanted to post the pictures! This is the first time that I have done a faced edge instead of a binding. I am not sure about facings. I read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,184,54,30,103,3,69,53,83],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alaska","tag-elk","tag-exhibits","tag-fabric","tag-machine-quilting","tag-nature","tag-new-work","tag-saqa","tag-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}