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Making my cicada quilt, Cicadence, step by step from Splendiferous

Cicadence, 2020, 24 x 24 inches

Here’s what I started with: packet with fat quarter of this fabric, and a sheet inside with the rules. Rules: must use recognizable amount of challenge fabric, no bigger than 24 x 24, and must have a wing in it somewhere. The challenge was supposed to be for 2020, but we know how that went. I had already started it, so I kept going, and hid the finished quilt for almost an entire year. Since it was made in 2020, I had no idea about Brood X hatching this year, and what a ...

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Jenny Anydots from Splendiferous

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 ...

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My Best of 2019 from Splendiferous

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 ...

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