Don't tell anyone, but I finished a quilt this year!
04-14-2010, 03:31 AM
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congratulations on finishing your quilt - love the 'fly by seagull over the moving water - please make another quilt soon because you have talent and good use of copper wire with threads :thumbup:
04-14-2010, 05:38 AM
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My art guild is doing the same thing. I am struggling right now with #1. I will post when I have it done, hopefully this week. I really liked your treatment of the bridge, including the wire is a very nice touch.
04-14-2010, 10:29 AM
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Thanks everyone :D
I forgot to say how I came to use the wire in it...The quilt had already gone to quilter #3 & came back, but I knew I still wanted to do some embellishing on it.
So, I was driving up to No. Calf. for Christmas & was stopped in the fast lane on the freeway thanks to an overturned semi-truck blocking all the lanes ahead. It was a nice, sunny day, so I had my window down & the music playing, & glanced down at the center divider/emergency lane & saw about a 3 foot long piece of cable, with the copper wire uncovered where it had been ripped out of wherever it was. And I thought - cool, that copper wire would look really good in my Whisper quilt....and right then the traffic started moving again! I told my sister about my idea - she works for Orchard Supply Hardware - so she sent me some copper wire. :D I tried to strip it myself, but what she sent was a bit too small & I couldn't manage to do it without haven't a bunch of the little wires breaking. I mentioned that to my friend MaryAnn who owns the ceramics shop where I paint, and she told her DH, who is an electrician. Next time I went in to paint, she handed me a beautiful piece of stripped wire!
It's good to have great family & friends, isn't it :D:D:D:D:D
I forgot to say how I came to use the wire in it...The quilt had already gone to quilter #3 & came back, but I knew I still wanted to do some embellishing on it.
So, I was driving up to No. Calf. for Christmas & was stopped in the fast lane on the freeway thanks to an overturned semi-truck blocking all the lanes ahead. It was a nice, sunny day, so I had my window down & the music playing, & glanced down at the center divider/emergency lane & saw about a 3 foot long piece of cable, with the copper wire uncovered where it had been ripped out of wherever it was. And I thought - cool, that copper wire would look really good in my Whisper quilt....and right then the traffic started moving again! I told my sister about my idea - she works for Orchard Supply Hardware - so she sent me some copper wire. :D I tried to strip it myself, but what she sent was a bit too small & I couldn't manage to do it without haven't a bunch of the little wires breaking. I mentioned that to my friend MaryAnn who owns the ceramics shop where I paint, and she told her DH, who is an electrician. Next time I went in to paint, she handed me a beautiful piece of stripped wire!
It's good to have great family & friends, isn't it :D:D:D:D:D
04-14-2010, 10:37 AM
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Yes, it's good to have friends in the right places - love the story of your journey - not all traffic jams are bad for us if we think beyond the square - we just need to have pen and paper handy to write little messages to ourselves whilst travelling or, as you did, tell someone else what you thought about and let the idea unravel - two heads are better than one but sometimes two hands are not enough :roll: :lol:
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