Oh How I Detest My Seam Ripper!

That little gadget and I spent over 4 hours together yesterday.   Why, you ask?   Well, my wearable quilt art and I were having an argument over the red ribbon and I was losing.   I had to remove yards and yards of it, straighten out some major puckers, and cut and cut and cut the ribbon to bend the way I wanted it to.

We seem to be having a better time together today.

My Koos jacket is coming along now.  I have the jacket all together, the lining sewn and now have to attach the two to make them one.   This will definitely take a bit of time to do.

Last year when I made a wearable jacket, I made it all out of cotton.  I had a judge tell me that perhaps I should use other fabric.  This is  Serenity:

For my Koos jacket, (which has no name yet) I used silk dupioni, thai silk and a braided ribbon.  

Hope to finish in the next two days, wish me luck!

Giveaway Winner and My New Art Quilt

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Posts are going to be a little short till school starts next week.  Hard to concentrate=)

I have a winner of my FQ bundle:

 Deb said...

Follower! Lovely postcards!

As far as other projects go, I finished my Rhythm and Blues quilt.   I am tackling another art quilt that I started way back in the summer.   I have never done coloring on a quilt before.  It was a great project to take with me when I went outside with the kids or travelling.   I finally finished all the coloring last night.   Now I have to figure out a background and how to quilt it.  I am only showing you a quarter of it as I don't have it all laid out yet.

When I do, I will take more pics.  

I am also contemplating doing this pattern as wearable art.  It is by Koos van den Akker.


All this has to be done by the end of January to enter into the Canadian Juried show.   This may not happen, but I am going to give it a try!