Jenny Anydots

  

A quilt shop about an hour and 45 minutes north of me hosts an annual fabric challenge, with gift certificates to the store as prizes.  Here’s the challenge packet.  Must use Kaffe Fassett Tiddlywinks fabric in blue, finish 24" square or smaller, and have a face on it

 

Started with cat photo, and edited in photoshop to have smaller value range.  Printed out grayscale photo to 24" square size on several sheets of paper, and taped together.

 

selected fabrics and arranged in value order.  All Kaffe Fassett.  

 

made a value scale from a strip of background

 

Outlined and numbered areas with red sharpie.  Easy to see, and I want it to bleed to the back side to trace onto fusible.  I later gridded the master drawing with blue sharpie, and eventually drew the whiskers with green.  Easier to see if each is a different color (and not black). Each square on the blue grid was labeled a, b, c, etc.  Each part of the cat is traced onto the paper side of Soft Fuse, and labeled with color number and location on the grid.  When I trace, I add extra on the sides going under a darker color to avoid gaps.

 

Pieces ironed on some of the fabric.

 

Assembly underway.  I press each section between sheets of baker's parchment so it doesn't stick to anything else.

 

assembled cat. checked for any gaps, and patched them on the back with a small piece of matching fabric.  Ironed the assembled cat to lightweight fusible interfacing. Stitched the cat in the direction the fur grows.

 

hard to see the facial features, so I traced them onto Solvy with colored sharpie, and overlaid onto face.

 

Wet blocked after stitching, which also melts the soluble stabilizer away.

 

 Made overlapping darts to flatten the cat, trimmed the interfacing, added the background, added whiskers, stitched them to background and blocked again (#2)

 

added borders, and layered.  I used some small pieces of batting, butted together with a strip of fusible interfacing ironed to the back to keep them together.  It wasn't worth cutting into a new king size batt for a 24" square quilt.  You cannot tell where the joins are after it's quilted.

 

backside, after the face is quilted

 

all quilted and blocked (#3) before trimming and facing

blocked (#4) after facing attached, to get edges straight and square

 

Finished quilt

 

Some detail shots of the eyes

The quilt won 2nd place and Viewers' Choice, so I'm doing a happy dance.

2020 Roundup

 In My Mind's Eye, 20 x 20 inches

Woven Rainbow (pieced in 2019, quilted in 2020). 60 x 60 inches

What's Your Excuse?  33 x 37 inches

Rainbow Leaves (SAQA Benefit Auction donation) 12 x 12 inches

Cicadence 24 x 24 inches

The Very Grungy Caterpillar, 32 x 46 inches

Baby Quilt 30 x 41 inches

My Best of 2019

2019 was pretty busy!

Cents and Sensibility was accepted to Alexandria Museum of Art exhibit, Concrete and Adrift: On the Poverty Line.

Back Yard Beauty went to Mid-Alantic Quilt Festival in Pennsylvania.

Lichen hung at Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center in Baton Rouge.

Too Raw (Too Soon Every Day to Talk About Gun Violence) was accepted to the Tom Peyton Arts Festival, and Alexandria Museum of Art September Competition, AND was awarded the purchase prize at the latter.

Feathers, Scales and Tails: Night Flight went to Quilteroo's in Ruston, La., and Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center.

Fatsia Fantasy, Into the Woods, and Leaf Party went to the Main Library and State Archive, both in Baton Rouge.

Her Eyes as Clear as Centuries went to Sacred Threads.

 Rhumba went to the Gallery One Ellleven Annual Competition Show and won a merit award (and will be in Curated Quilts in early 2020).

L'Homme Vert du Cyprie're and The Woods Are Lovely, Dark and Deep hung at Louisiana State Arboretum in August.

Shuffle sold at the SAQA auction.

Thoughts and Prayers was accepted to Collective (In)Action exhibit at Memorial Union Gallery, NDSU

Took a class in June with Wen Redmond, about digital printing on unusual substrates, and used my new knowledge to participate in SAQA's 100 day project.

These three quilts came home after a three year tour all over the US (and Birmingham, England) as part of Fly Me To The Moon.  By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Moonlight Serenade, and Moonlight Sonata.

A Suitable Boy toured libraries throughout the state all year, as part of a Contemporary Fiber Artists of Louisiana books exhibit.

 Naiad and Dryad hung at the Ascension Parish Library, Dutchtown, for the month of December, as part od  SAQA regional exhibit.

I also made two quilts, a doll, and a smocked romper for my granddaughter.  I've already got plans for 2020!

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