Still trying to catch up. This little painting (and I mean little–only 2 1/2″ x 3 1/2″) was painted on a new (for me) medium called Stampbord. It’s made my Ampersand and says to use it with stamps, inks, embossing etc. It did not say watercolor, but I tried it anyway. The surface is slick, like Yupo paper–only it’s mounted on 1/8″ board. I wasn’t too adventurous with it this time. Maybe tomorrow.
Beware! Black cats are coming soon and they are bringing scary jack-o-lanterns with them!
Spooky Ride by Pam Schoessow
I guess my “Cats in Space” is now a series.
Original watercolor by Pam Schoessow
Just wanted to let you all know that I have made some progress on at least one UFO this week. You might remember this Halloween quilt top from my last post. Well, with the addition of some wide borders, it is now a little lap quilt! Now it’s ready to pull out for the Fall.
With addition of the orange and green borders, it measures about 58″ square–a nice lap size.
At first I didn’t think that the darker green border was a good choice. But my main goal in finishing this projects it to use fabric that I already have! I probably would have gone for a lime green or purple, but this fabric is growing on me. Who says everything has to match perfectly? Hope it makes it more interesting. I picked up quite a lot of this fabric at a guild sale years ago. I loved the little ravens (or are they crows?). It’s an unusual print and I finally found a place to use it. I made the binding out of another Halloween print that I had around.
Also right out of my fabric stash I found this orange diamond fabric that looks great on the back. I added some extra blocks (and more of the green) to make the backing wide enough. Pieced backs are always more interesting just using one fabric. I quilted it with an all-over spiral pattern as you can see. Nothing fancy. Got to get these projects done!
I find I do have quite a few Autumn fabrics and colors in my fabric stash. It’s obvious it’s my favorite season and now I have another Fall quilt project to add to my collection!
I recently quilted this wonderful quilt for Abby. It’s a pattern by Judy Niemeyer and was mostly paper pieced (how else would you get those marvelous points!) Abby did a fantastic job piecing this beauty.
I did some free motion “wavy” quilting on the background and stitched around the pointy border to give it more definition.
The center circles seemed to speak “bubbles” to me, so that is what went into the turquoise “water”. Don’t you just love those circular flying geese?!
Again, one of the best things about being a Long Arm quilter is that I get to put my creative quilting juices to work without having to do the intricate piecing. I love this quilt! It truly IS fabulous!
It’s fun to look at the back too!
Keep those quilts coming. I’m having fun!
Just for fun. Spring bunnies will be arriving soon!
I thought I would try something different for the sky in this one. I’m not sure I like it though. Watercolors can be very unforgiving. Oh well.
Day 11
I wanted to try something with a darker background.
I love autumn colors: gold, orange , red ,purple, green and brown.
They all play so nicely together.
I just had to paint something today–it’s been so long. I’ve been chained to my long arm for weeks it seems. But I’m leaving on a trip today and am taking my paints. No sewing! That really surprises my Mom. Usually when I go to visit her, I bring all sorts of piecing projects I want to finish. I think she feels neglected. I promised this would be a no sewing trip. I hope she doesn’t mind if I paint all day.
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