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I am working on the final pieces for the Wave Landscape Patchwork exhibition and decided to do a set of the 4 seasons. Four individual...

I provide most of the fabrics, upcycled sheets and clothing but they have to bring a few personal pieces to incorporate into the quilt. They have 2 options, they can either stich a rag quilt with flannel batting, or a squares quilt with a fleece or flannel backing. Not so classical quilting.

I still use classical quilt techniques but modified to my style especially when I teach sewing. I use the log cabin block and call it a magic square when teaching sewing. The first project of students is to create a square and then a pillow cover from that square. They get to use scraps availabe in the scrap box that week to create their squares and pillow covers.

People ask me if I do classical quilting. Yes I do, specifically to gift or if I need another patchwork blanket. My focus today, is on teaching and creating art quilts. Today I sorted some of my photo albums, I am making an effort to digitalize my photos and I found an album with photos that I had taken at an exhibition that I had given 35 years ago. My go to was the log cabin pattern. I have always used upcycled fabrics and always had strips and odd small pieces of

The students finished their wave landscape patchworks

have been working quite diligently to prepare the pieces for my 50 piece exhibition of the Wave Landscape Patchwork Technique. Of course my students have seen my works and they know that I am nearing completion. 2 weeks ago they came to me together and told me that they had decided to each create a piece and would I allow them to participate. Of course my answer was yes, in fact if I had known that they wanted to participate I would have let them make many more pieces.

I am making some crumb patchwork pants and saw when lining up that I was creating so many scraps. I put them in a bowl as I work and saw that the pile was growing and that the mix created a pleasing visual effect.

I break the fabric storage down into sections, boxes of sheets and larger pieces, medium sized pieces, small pieces and the last - crumbs and scraps. All sorted according to the color seasons. I had still too many boxes of crumbs so I decided to create "fabric" pieces out of them and from those to create practical items and I will be using up crumbs.

I had a bunch of narrow strips left over when creating last week and decided to make some woven fabric from them.

I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly the technique that I had envisioned in my mind of curvilinear spirals came together under the needle.

I have been thinking about writing this post for a while now. I can look at a product and after a few minutes I manage to analyze how it was

I was left with the option of making pockets set in the seams but I wanted large pockets. So i looked at my sweatshirts and came up with the idea of sewing my version of "kangaroo pockets". I was told yesterday in one of the facebook groups that this wasn't really a kangaroo pocket as that is one piece and not 2 so, I am a creative. and can call it whatever I want to.

My finished tunic - part 6. I decided to make a second one as well, a sleeveless version, lined with buttons and kangaroo pockets for a casual comfortable feel.

I really want to see the tunic so I have been sewing for hours and have made much progress. I think it will be finished this week. - progress 5.

This week I worked with all of my autumn scraps and while sorting saw some beautiful colored scraps, which I envision as coming up roses

Topstitching - 4. I have constructed the patchwork fabric pattern pieces. And now have to top stitch to secure them all in place. I will be washing the tunic of course, but will do so on a low temperature non-agitating wash as I don't want the pieces to fray.

Now that I have the pattern I want to see the tunic finished! I am doing it very systematically. I chose to begin working with the center front and center back panels. I will first piece all of them. I am creating all the pieces with mosaic patchwork and will then heavily overquilt all the pieces. I will have to choose some music while I do this as it is quite repetitive.

Yesterday I was deliberating between a tunic and a coat. Using the mosaic patchwork technique to create fabric, creates a relatively stiff fabric. The fabric is strong and warm but I wanted pockets and sleeves and I solved the dilemma - 2.

I have a goal. To complete my mosaic patchwork tunic or coat before this winter finally gets to us - 1.

This morning a friend on facebook asked in a post what our obessions are. I was just thinking about that! Standing with a cup of coffee in my studio and looking at all the things that I have created this week. Making new fabric from scraps is what I would call my obsessions. It is the technique that I connect with the most.