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Dont tell her I said that.

Maggie lost a bet about something that I dont remember, and the stakes were high.
A tart was to be made for the winner.
Heres my tart.
[because I won....]
[Woot]
[Woot]

Oh, and it was super delicious!
The crust was home made and dark chocolate coated for freshness then topped with an almond pastry cream and then the mountain of fresh fruits you see there then glazed with home made strawberry preserves. The rim Blackberries were dipped in the same dark chocolate.

all in all a delight to behold and to ingest.

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Here is a little fun project that Maggie and I made a few months ago.
And I am only just now getting around to posting it.

Go Marketing Mondays!
From crayons:

using this hot glue melter [genius]

this empty Airborn Bottle worked the best:

Note how the colors were poured in so that they would reveal as the super crayon is used.

here is how it looked coming out:

It makes for some awesome embellishment.
I think one melted in my glove box however…so my sunglasses are embellished.
Who needs a Bedazzler? Not this guy!

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Here are a few shots of how the sewing is going.
This piece has lots of little pieces and due to the nature of the quilt all of them are skewed to be little strips.
Here is an image from right on top of the head:

and here is a shot from the side approximately where you would want to be to see it clearly:

Op art Pop art

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I am projecting an image in fabric.
The project for the Quilt of Benjamin Franklin was proposed to me by my good friend Jesse.
He wanted to see Benjamin sitting on a bed. bantering this idea around for a few years we came upon the idea that we wanted to see the image while the quilt was on the bed. I went to that old stand by from my days of Architecture: Sketchup.

I tried to figure out the geometry to make a projected image such that it was exactly respondent to a person four feet to the right and 6 feet down from the corner of the bed. a week and some dents in the computer later I had a rendering that started to look like what we wanted it to look like. after a bit of work I had an image that worked.

I made a mock up to see if It worked like we wanted.

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Thought it may be good to post a little note about where I live.
Seattle.
Its turning summer here. Finally!
Here is an image of the studio that I am working out of right now:
[took me way longer to make it than it should have.]

Its a garage, which is awesome because I can open one of the walls when the weather is nice.

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I liked the look of the last tumbling blocks quilt top I made, but I learned a few things in the process.
I have made another using the same method of clothes into quilt, the difference being the size of the pieces are twice as large.
Lara my assistant on top of the top:

A detail of the piecing:

Once the piece is finished there will be more images.
This piece will have Benjamin Franklin on top.

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There is a working method called agile used primarily in software development. I have been learning about this process through some graphic design projects I have been working on over the past few months. Now that I am gearing up for my show in October in NYC I have lots of work to do and wanted a way to break down the project into workable pieces as they relate to time.

put op on the wall: arranged into quilts per month with the six steps to finish each:
1) design top
2) design figures
3) piece top
4) piece figures
5) quilt it all together
5) finish [binding, logo, thread picking etc.]
I am aiming for 12 done large scale projects in October.

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Here is another project made from clothes into a quilt top waiting for the image to be appliquéd on top.

Here is my studio assistant wading through the pile of reds that will become the top

cutting the clothes into usable pieces:

cutting the pieces into strips to be sewn into the top:

Assembling the pieces into blocks:

the blocks into the whole:

the finished top: [Maggie for scaler reference]

Detail:

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I have a bed quilt for sale at a local botique.

Nube Green

The place has an interesting theme. its products are all green. [as in recycled or sustainable local rather than the secondary color combination of yellow and blue]

The quilt I have there is the one made from recycled clothes into the Log cabin pattern.

the bed that was in my studio to show the quilts on:

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