Christmas is over and my cutting table was empty, so…
So of course, it was time to start work 🙂 Already, I have received four blocks and made three of my own. There’s more en route and still more promised. I could have waited a bit longer, but the deadline is looming large in my brain and making me restive, and anyway I wanted needed to do some exploratory work.
First out of the traps were Robin’s four blocks, two pale background squares and two dark border squares. Gorgeous, aren’t they?
Then I made three light background blocks myself. Two of them are scrappy, as I don’t want things to be too tidy; I’m hoping for a soft, broken-colour effect.
And finally, using butcher paper, I blocked out the size and shape of the light background on which the wings will sit so that I could work on the banner, hook, L-plate and wings. It doesn’t look like much yet, but I really needed to look at size, proportion and placement.
All these elements will be separate pieces which will be appliquéd to the background. The edges of the banner and L-plate will be free of the background, and the wing feathers will be substantially free of the background along their length, I hope, so that there will be some movement. I’m still working on how exactly I’m going to achieve that, but at least now I have sizes and shapes blocked in.
The wing shapes are just foundation pieces at the moment; the actual wings will be larger, and they’ll also look fuller with the feathers lying thickly over the background.
So, In the Arms of the Angels is off the ground.
Chocks away for a great start.
I think this one’s going to be lovely, but I don’t want to rush it too much for fear of mucking something up. Those applied pieces for the centre will take some thought and care.
Those background blocks all look lovely. We’re still in the throes of Christmas festivities here – which will continue on and off until New Year but all my secret sewing and crochet projects have been finished and delivered so I might be able to sneak away now and then to make a start on that shoe!!
Don’t worry too much; my main concern is about the stuff in the centre that I’m making myself!
Looking forward to the journey 😊
Me too! I like to push myself a bit and discover how to do something I have no idea how to achieve!
It’s amazing when a picture in your minds eye takes shape … I usually go in with one basic idea when creating something and then it grows as I go along … I’ll send you the picture of the table decoration I have done for our anniversary
I usually design something wildly over-ambitious and then have to work out how to make it. I find it very good for my skill – I don’t like to fail, so I generally find a way. Do send the photo, or if it’s on FB, I’ll get John to have a look for me.
It’s not on fb yet … I’ll message it to u
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Yay!
Yeah!
Very pretty colours
It’s the same old variation on teal and cream, but I hope to give it a bit of bling this time.
Hoping mine will arrive by the end of next week. Not sure how the holidays will affect it.
I seem to recall that your blocks usually arrive pretty promptly, so I’m not too concerned 🙂
I like the plan! The butcher paper gives you a concrete idea of space, which I find I always need.
It’s really helped. I’ve already decided that I need to make the banner smaller and the wings bigger! Without the templates I think I wouldn’t have been happy with the end result.
I’m with Lynn, still in holiday mode. I *wish* my cutting table was clear! Let me clarify one point though: do you want cream blocks for the light center area? Somehow I had light teal blocks in my brain for that.
Either cream or light teal or a mixture of both is fine. And my cutting table is now a mess of scraps of fabric, snippets of butcher paper and several different weights of interfacing while I test stiffening for wing feathers 😉
🙂