After Thanksgiving, I was ironing all the pieces down…here’s the biggest pieces of flesh on the whole quilt. I used up almost all of this fabric (which I really loved)…
Pieces were piling up, and I was cutting them out as quickly as I could…
Here’s all the fabrics that were used in the quilt.
And here’s a pile of leftovers after I finish trimming stuff…
After that, I sorted pieces, around the end of the year. I had about two more weeks of Winter Break left.
I started ironing around New Year’s Eve and was done a few days later.
No, I don’t have a life. Why do you ask?
This bird was the beginnings of an idea in Julie’s mind to have me make the small bird quilts I did last summer…
Ironing went quickly…
I was motivated to get it done before school started up again.
The maiden…
Both of them together…
The upper torso coming together…
And Kitten on the crone’s shoulder. Every crone needs a cat.
And this is where I started questioning my choice of background fabric.
I actually laid the whole thing out on the purple fabric…purple that I loved. And then I rejected it. And went shopping for that blue…that eye-popping blue.
Because that blue is what it needed to be. Here it is ironed down, waiting to be stitched down…
Stitching it down, all in early January…
The great thing about those vacation weeks is that I don’t have to do a whole lot of schoolwork.
So I have more time to make art. She definitely has a marked face…
I started quilting it on January 9. That’s probably about when I went back to school…
Lots of outlining…
I quilted it in 7 days during school. I was a little obsessed (honestly, I was running out of time).
There’s all that detail again…
And then I started quilting the background…
The binding went on around the 17th and I was handstitching the night before I was supposed to take it to the photographer.
The next post? Official pictures…
Kathy Nida 