My Nova Star Wave Landscape Patchwork Tutorial I created a smaller piece and took many pictures and videos so that I can write a pdf tutorial and create a video tutorial. One HAS to be practiced in my basic wave landscape patchwork technique in order to accomplish this one.

Nova Star - A Tribute to Those Souls Shining in their Stardust

Interestingly this is what happened this week "Israeli scientists become first to chronicle earliest stages of supernova Astronomers from Weizmann Institute observe a star in nearby galaxy Messier 101 explode and believe it left behind a new black hole We're all Stardust"

Well this time I thought that I had gone overboard with the technique.I almost decided not to complete it. BUT I do not give up, so I looked at it and looked again and came up with an interesting idea to complete it which I am working on now.

Now I have my fabrics in all the colors that I chose. I have put down on paper what I saw in my head. That accomplishes a number of things for me. I see a tangible color layout as I saw it in my head and while drawing the piece I get the "feel" of how the fabrics will flow along my drawn lines.

Designing the star. Whenever I create a new design I sketch it first. Rough sketches, at first, as the ideas come to me. Sometimes as I awaken with my first cup of coffee. I have small piles of scrap paper and pencils always within reach. I never know when an idea will come to me. I have notebooks which I transfer the ideas to afterwards so that I have a record of my creative process.

And then I saw a Nova. A bright light shattering into many many colors, greens and turquoises and lilacs and purples. That is the one for the making of a star.

I created 2 large crumb patchwork pieces . One is an abstract crumb quilted patchwork art piece in combat colors and the other will have an anemone - kalaniot applique.

I have completed a detailed tutorial for the floral boho bag

Whenever I teach a class I create samples of my own and this week I taught fabric flowers so I created my version of fabric flowers - where there are flowers there is hope.

I ended up with a large pile of elements for my southern landscape piece. At this stage I would normally iron all the elements flat, but this time chose not to. I want the landscape to have a rugged, rough uneven look

I had said that I would create until either ideas or fabrics ran out. I don't know when that will happen. Scrap fabrics have a magical way of multiplying. It doesn't seem to matter how much fabric I use when sewing there is always an endless supply which seems to grow larger rather than smaller.

I wanted to create a rustic, bohemian piece of fabric with lots of texture. I first created textured strips,and then I wove some pieces and sewed some pieces. A tactile and colorful quilted patchwork piece depicting the terrain down south in Israel.

This is the mood that I wanted, A landscape patchwork combat moonlight piece.

This time it was quite a challenge, some of the fabric pieces stretched a lot as I was curving the waves and I had to iron quite agressively to flatten the puckers but it was worth it as the end result is what I wanted and its quilted!

More progress but its already night time so I will leave the quilting for tomorrow as I want to see the true colors and for that I need daylight.

For this project, different from some of my others, the iron works over time. The ironing is the difference between a professional and an amateur looking piece. When I have to iron and use steam a lot I prefer to iron outside as there is fresh air and a breeze and its healthier. I had hoped to finish it today but it started raining and it was too cold to continue working outside. So tomorrow is another day.

The first piece in the series that I am creating around combat colors I will call The Remains.

Who says pouches that are practical can't be pretty. I have been working in these colors for the past month together with my students.

This is a study in colors for 2 boro rectangles for my zippered pouch.