You can add interest and initiate story in a piece by breaking your own rules. Asking what if I don't do it that way? once in a while.
Audio- Surprise Yourself ( 3:00)
Let yourself go.
- This class is now part of my Feel Free open teaching project. Feel Free to pay what you can (or not) using the donate button. Thanks for being here in any case. jude
Just going along
- Supplies
- Class Outline
- Introduction
- THE BASE
- What if the base is smaller?
- Spaced out
- The Base as a Sandwich
- APPLIQUE - PART 1
- APPLIQUE- PART 2
- What if you stitch the grid?
- The Element of Surprise
- Filling Space with Words
- STITCH
- Compounding the Base idea
- Freedom
- COMPOSITION and STORY- 1
- COMPOSITION and STORY-2
- Defining Space
- Color and Story
- Revising a Plan
- Freedom to stop
- Filling Space
- QUILTING and BINDING
- Using an existing edge
- No hard edge
- Simple Quilting and Continuing
- Just Going
2 posts categorized "breaking your own rules"
Revising a plan
Continuing with FREEDOM.
and then a second thought...
The way you think as you go, can actually give form to what you are doing. Sometimes the story is just the consciousness of the making of something. And a new design emerges. From your thoughts. Let that happen. Notice it.
Categories
- Applique
- Back stitch
- binding
- breaking your own rules
- Building a story
- butterfly
- color
- composition
- compound base
- Creating a base
- double running stitch
- drawing
- Drawing on cloth
- edges
- Embellishment
- embellishment as quilting
- Embroidery
- Filler stitches
- foundation piecing
- fragile cloth
- FREEDOM
- Glue stitch
- Halo applique
- Integrated applique
- Invisible baste
- Layered base
- little bases
- living with process
- MAKING SPACE
- managing layers
- Mini quilt as an applique
- Naming things
- no edge
- Outline
- paperless piecing
- patchwork as applique
- Pieced base
- quilting
- Ragged edge applique
- Ragged mask applique
- rainbow
- sandbox posts
- sheers
- simplicity
- Sketch Applique
- split backstitch
- stitch
- Stitch
- stitching a grid
- supplies
- thank you
- The collage method
- The Component method
- The Conversation piece
- the element of surprise
- the hug
- The order of things
- the sandwich base
- The Wrap
- Thread beads
- transition stitching
- Turned applique
- Turned Reverse Applique
- weaving with spaces
- Welcome
- Whole Cloth base
- wizard stitchng
- Words
- working bigger
- Working outward
- working small
- Woven base
- Wrapped backstitch