One problem is I put them on the diagonal which is the first thing to address and another is coming up with a clever cover...
1/05/2017
UFO projects - Proper Ladies
I haven't done any crazy quilting since I finished the anniversary quilt in early November... There are several projects left unfinished that I'm going to do my best to finish.... Recently I joined a UFO challenge and am going to try to finish one a month.. Among them are RR blocks of some very proper ladies.....:Pearl, Bertha, Sadie, Emma, Opal and Gertrude...
UFO #1. A book of "Proper Ladies". I was in a round robin a few years back and the theme was "faces". I made some faces from polymer clay and attached them unadorned to blocks and gave each a name. When I was a girl all the major hotels and department stores had tearooms and proper ladies wore hats and went "downtown" to lunch with their friends... I asked the stitchers to give their lady the hat of their dreams ...to feel free to add ribbons, feathers, birds, fruits, jewels and flowers galore. My only restriction was No purple with red hats. The stitchers in this round robin did a fantastic job of dressing my ladies but I never got around to doing mine. So now I'd like finish them in style and make them into a book...
One problem is I put them on the diagonal which is the first thing to address and another is coming up with a clever cover...
One problem is I put them on the diagonal which is the first thing to address and another is coming up with a clever cover...
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6 comments:
I love the ladies -- especially the one in mink. How did you attach the faces to the squares?
OH WOW!!! I love these ladies! I never in a million years would have thought of doing anything like this (might have done the ladies, but not in clay). You are SO clever!!!
what wonderful ladies you have there they will make great crazy blocks
Love, love, loved these!!! So very cool. You make the best projects.
We didn't live in a place big enough to have a place to go for "tea" but I remember that women never went out without a hat, gloves and matching purse and shoes (and no white after Labour Day). Your ladies make me smile. The diagonal thing is tricky - I'd probably just attach them at the top and make a flip-up book. I am interested to see what you come up with. I finished Bird block #14 and pulled at the threads, etc. for 15 and 16 so now I'm ready to stitch :).
Gerry, these are fabulous! (I seriously need to play with my polymer clay more.) Beautiful work!
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