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Cassowary is Finished from The Quilt Yarn

Wow...I worked for most of last week on this to get him done and today I finished him.

I am just a little bit proud of this...nothing about this project came easy to me. Each section had its own challenging little things and some of them I did get right and some of them I did not.

In general, I think I thread painted a bit heavily in parts and some of the shading is a bit wonky, but I am more than happy with it. Actually cannot believe I managed to do this.

And here he is ...

added by Karin 3 years, 6 months ago. under aurifil thread , cassowary lesley mays patchwork & craft , sophie standing textile art , thread painting

Progress on WIPs from The Quilt Yarn

Had my second day of the Elizabeth Hartman workshop. Had not done any more work on the blocks other than cutting my pieces out for the owl block.

Well, the owl did take the whole session from 9.30am to 2.30pm. It had so many tiny pieces and was a bit challenging for my brain in terms of getting them oriented the right way around. Worked very slowly as I did not want to mess it up. I only need one owl for the wall hanging and I definitely did not want to do another one.

Here it is ...

added by Karin 3 years, 6 months ago. under cassowary lesley mays patchwork & craft , sophie standing textile art , thread painting

Work in Progress from The Quilt Yarn

My blog posts are going to be all over the place for a little while as I am working on several things all at once. Bit of bad planning on my part...

I am doing two workshops at the moment...the Cassowary one with Sophie Standing online and then also an Elizabeth Hartman workshop in person at our local sewing shop.

The Elizabeth Hartman workshop started Monday and only has two sessions, one occurred this week and another one next week. We are doing a wall hanging from the Fancy Forest pattern. Thought that this would be great practice to ...

added by Karin 3 years, 7 months ago. under cassowary lesley mays patchwork&craft , elizabeth hartman design , fancy forest pattern , sophie standing textile art

Cassowary Online Workshop with Sophie Standing from The Quilt Yarn

I have been busy...the Cassowary Workshop started on the 14 May. Many firsts for me in this one. I dyed my background fabric! Never ventured out into dyeing anything, so together with my daughter we had some fun getting some colour onto this background. Would have liked to experiment a bit more now that my interest has been sparked, but that would have taken another few weeks of researching and trying it out. There is always next time. Got lots of ideas from this workshop.

Also, correction from my last post - Sophie Standing lives in Kenya rather than S ...

added by Karin 3 years, 7 months ago. under cassowary lesley mays patchwork&craft , sophie standing textile art

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