Getting on with it!

OK, work has to be completed in 3 weeks, time to stop faffing about, just do it! Thanks Nike...good slogan.
Here is my todo list:

• Clear work table
• New needle in machine
• Clean fluff from underneath stitch plate, maybe drop of oil
• Stitch Triskele on. It is silver, but I'll use a grey rayon or maybe a contrasting rayon. ?Black??
• Stitch on clock, stitch on balloon, stitch on apple.
• Discard twisted score, don't like it anymore

By that time, the work itself will tell me what it wants me to do and I'll tell you about it when it happens!!

I also need to make a couple of placemats for meals-on-wheels, a commitment Glen Rock Quilters made and I want to start swapping ATCs.

I did some swaps in 2004! Must have been ahead of my time.

4 elements

I was very happy with "footprints in the sand, until I pinned it onto the quilt sandwich, then the colour was far too bright.
I put a bit of organza over it, looked a bit better. You can't really appreciate the difference here, as there is a difference in exposure between the 2 and I don't want to spend heaps of time retouching the photographs.
I also would love to know how better to move pictures around on this blog, as you can do in other programs.

I am not sure where to go next, but I'll think of something!
Also my plan is to create a top layer on all of this, to make those elements much less defined.
I don't know if that is a physical layer, like organza, or a layer of embellishments, such as lots of musical notes scattered all over, which sounds like fun.
The first decision is whether to create more elements or leave it with these.

Ticky-tocky is finished

 

This is ready to be attached to the quilt sandwich.It will be like a circle, I'll cut the excess off just before I am ready to applique it. 

Round...like a circle in a spiral

These are the first words of the song.

 

Here the music score with lyrics has been scanned in, twisted in Corel PhotoPaint. That design has been printed on cotton. It will be attached to the background with free motion stitching, keeping to the spiral design. 

Until I am ready to do that, I will put it on Vliesofix but I won't take off the paper backing till I am sure of where I want to put it.

More ticky-tocky

 

It is looking good, isn't it!

I love the way the organza mutes the design of the fabric underneath. 

The stars are now defined.

Being able to design on the computer and print has made this element so much easier. especially the numbers on the clock. 

What I like about blogging this project is that, even though I think I am not getting anywhere, I can see progress.

I've ordered the wrought iron quilt hanger, I am committed to enter a new piece in the Musical Gems exhibition at the end of next month. Thank goodness for deadlines!

I am going to start on another element, while I consider how to design the hands of the clock with a sense of movement.  If I can't think of any way to get that effect well, I'll just put 2 hands in.....

Keys that jingle in your pocket

This element is now ready, except for the stitching onto the work. Lots of mucking about, mainly to find a solution to the problem of securing, which will now happen when it gets stitched onto the work.

What has happened here?
The original image was printed 3x on Extravorganza, cut out and fused on a piece of printed fabric. By shifting the image I wanted to create a sense of movement,
The smudges you see are bits of silver Angelina fibre. Not looking to good on here, but OK in real life.
I fused a piece of fine poly organza over the lot, catching the images and the Angelina.
You can't see it here, as this was scanned in, but the edges of the fabric have been frayed.

Ticky-tocky

Which is what my youngest son used to call a clock.

 

I designed a clock face in CorelDraw. You cannot see it well, but each number is in a little pink 6 pointed star. I printed it on Extravorganza  which is a silk organza, then fused it onto a piece of furnishing fabric. While I liked the fabric, it kind of cancelled much of the stars the numbers are in, but I am going to bead the points.