Comments on: SAQA One Foot Square artwork done!

By: Linda Teddlie Minton

Linda Teddlie Minton — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:16:17 +0000

Virginia, I love it! Especially the very watery quilting lines (of course the quilting is always my favorite part). Thanks for the walk-through of how you made your decisions, too. Very fun and interesting!

By: melanie

melanie — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:07:41 +0000

Thanks so much for the tutorial. I always appreciate being in on the ‘backstage’ stuff.

I’m working on a series wherein each piece finishes 12-inch square, so I invested in a piece of clear plexi cut to fit. I put that neon-color transparent 1/4-inch tape around the edges (because I’m a big fan of binding) and marked the centers of each side. It’s been a godsend.

I think I’m going to have start watching my nickels so I can splurge at this auction…

By: admin

admin — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:01:03 +0000

Linda - Thanks for stopping by!

Melanie - Good tip - thanks for sharing it! I would use a binding more often if the little binding fairies would come in the night and make them for me. I love stitching them down by hand, but not one other part of it!

By: Denise

Denise — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:14:58 +0000

Thank you for this glimpse of your behind-the-scenes. This is a beautiful piece.

By: melanie

melanie — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:43:41 +0000

The other cool thing about the plexi — which, btw, is a tip I picked up in Jane Davila and Elin Waterston’s Art Quilting 101 class (I’d hate to glom undue credit for this particular bit of ingneuity) — is that when the piece is framed the way you like, you can just run the rotary cutter along the plexi as though it were one of those fancy rulers.