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Tableau..mid/late May update

Hi all! Well….at long last I have another update photo for the Tableau quilt, which means that at long last, after returning from Mom’s, I have begun to re-focus. If I intend to enter this in Houston (gasp), I’d better hurry and get it DONE! Here’s the full shot:

I painted a wash of greens and black on the mountains to tone down the white in the plaid (the winter uniform skirt …. to re-cap, this quilt is to celebrate 100 years of the Christmas play at my school, where I attended from grades 7-12. I got the best education of my life there … better than university and grad school, because (a) the sisters and teachers cared about us, and (b) they taught us to love learning and (c) they taught us how to learn). Then I added (oh gag) camouflage mesh and this hideous black spiderweb tulle from Halloween at JoAnn’s Fabrics in bits on the mountains to create some depth and dimension. This afternoon….time to sew them down, and then applique the figures.

I also did some free-motion embroidery / threadwork on the figures, which are now ready to applique prior to basting and quilting.

I mentioned in a post on the QuiltArt listserv that I had painted the backside of some Halloween bat fabric (used years ago in pants for my oldest son), using black to blot out the red (nose) and yellow (eyes) dots, then using a wash of browns and blacks. Places with the wings running vertically, I think it kinda looks like plaster walls. The photo above with the shepherds and sheep shows a building which has an exterior collonade (will be more obvious once quilted…go with me on this one), and bat fabric on the interior. The same fabric appears again on the far right, above the donkey.

And here’s what it looked like to begin with:

Teehee! Enjoy….back to work!

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