3-d

Never Too Young to Learn About Black Holes. Or to Make Them. from Gefilte Quilt

I've been playing with wrapping quilt fabric around batting scraps, and weaving them into baskets. Just in time for the holidays, I made a couple of black holes this way, including one for this guy:

I was inspired by a talk at Cal Tech last month by Kip Thorne, who won a Nobel Prize in 2017 for creating LIGO, the project that detected gravitational waves emanating from colliding black holes. (My DH works on this project.)

Instead of resting on his laurels, Kip has been having a blast producing black hole art, including movies (Interstellar, and soon, a sequel ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 10 months, 2 weeks ago. under 3-d , baby , purse , scrap project

Are Bellydancer Coins Appropriate for Chanukah? And Thank You Target! from Gefilte Quilt

Shameless self-promotion, as well as promotion of Target stores (no financial affiliation with the latter):

Chanukah looms! It starts the night of December 7! It just occurred to me that I must locate my quilted fiber art dreidels, but finding them may not be easy. So instead of starting the search, I procrastinated by looking for my PHOTOS of quilted dreidels, to see if I needed to take new shots. I came upon this very nice photo:

The photo was taken in 2018, for my pattern booklet "Quilted Treasure Dreidels". Upon close inspection, I realized the coins I'd used ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 1 year, 1 month ago. under 3-d , chanukah , hanukah , jewish , judaica

My First Tumbler Quilt! (Not Tumbling Blocks) from Gefilte Quilt

First, in case you are as confused as I was, a "Tumbler" quilt is completely different from a "Tumbling Blocks" quilt!

"Tumbling Blocks" are made from 60 degree triangles and diamonds, and wind up with a 3D effect. They're great fun to look at, but technically can be a bear to make. I don't even remember how I pulled off the blocks below, from a Tokyo-themed quilt I made in the 90s, called "Sushi in the Sky with Diamonds."

I must have had a much higher tolerance for mitering in those days. On that same quilt, I also ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 2 years, 10 months ago. under 3-d , baby , baby quilt , children , covid 19 , novelty fabric , rulers , super60 ruler , templates , tumbler quilt , tumbling blocks

My New Eye Bowl from Gefilte Quilt

Pass the Visine! Here's my new Eye Bowl!

The name is inspired by the orange Tula Pink fabric covering the small diamonds. I drove the point home (because too much is never enough for me) by placing glass eye beads on half the outer shapes.

It's entirely English Paper Pieced. Before embellishment, it looked like this:

Afterwards, along with the beads and buttons on top, I added danglies below.

Lower.

The back:

Pure fun! I showed a different polygon-based bowl in my last blog entry, here. All my techniques and many more ideas (but not this exact project ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 4 years, 10 months ago. under 3-d , beads , bowl , buttons , embellishment , english paper piecing , polyhedra , polyhedron

My New English Paper Pieced Basket, Roof Optional from Gefilte Quilt

Here's my new thing! It's English Paper Pieced canopied basket...

....which can keep the dust off your giant, color-coordinated thread cone...

...or help you find your measuring tape...

Or stuff with faux flowers....

With you inside, it's a bulky bangle bracelet!

...which doubles as a wee, insecure handbag (needs a zippered lining)....

The shape is a modified truncated cuboctahedron. Here's what it would have looked like if it were a complete polyhedron (closed up, without the handle):

Can you see the family resemblance to this stuffed and complete truncated cuboctahedron pincushion?

I made the pincushion for ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 4 years, 10 months ago. under 3-d , bowl , dupioni silk , english paper piecing , polyhedra , polyhedron , silk

Impulse English Paper Pieced Heart Dish from Gefilte Quilt

I always get in a Valentine's Day mood at the last minutes. Here's the impulse project I made yesterday, an English Paper Pieced dish that can serve as a pincushion:

...or a thimble holder:

...or maybe an embroidery thread basket....

Or, pile it with chocolates for your sweetie. Here's how I constructed it. There's stiff fusible interfacing inside each piece; both sides are covered with fabric.

The bowl takes shape when you sew up the side seams.

Last, I did a bit of embellishment with the variegated embroidery thread in the ball above.

If you'd ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 4 years, 10 months ago. under 3-d , batik , bowl , embellishment , embroidery , english paper piecing , hand embroidery , polyhedra , polyhedron

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