I needed a new hat, I decided to make a brioche pattern. one color only.
By the end, things got wonky, so I gave up on the brioche and just decreased my way to a nice shaped hat. Oh, it is warm! I love that it is warm. Also, I got this yarn a few years ago from my friend Viviane. Back in the days when Hillview yarn was a thing, I think the color was Unicorn Pony.
Then, in the pouring rain, I went to the quilt guild meeting. Jean Impey came up from Orange County, many people stayed home to watch on Zoom. but there had to be some of us live people there. Unfortunately the storm created problems, among them – spotty wifi, so the people at home missed a lot.
Jeans’ talk was all about creativity and had some wonderful suggestions for tools.
She talked about EQ8 and during the slide show took us through the stages that got her to this quilt. That was fun to see, I don’t really have much of an interest in this kind of designing.
She then spoke about tools that can realign an image. It is very hard to get a real rectangular picture of a quilt – it was super hard for me from my seat to do so. Jean told us about Photoshop, as well as other programs, like Snap-seed which is an app I have. So I’m not sharing the wonky shapes, just how nicely the program straightened out these images.
Another thing Snap-seed can do is erase something like the hands holding this quilt. If you look closely, you can see that it did so in a strange manner, replicating the edges of the quilt. I’m sure if I work at it, I can get a clearer image. But if I hadn’t mentioned this to you, you’d never know – now you will look at those upper corners.
Here is the Day of the Dead skeleton panel, which Jean did a great job embellishing. She spoke about repeating a quilt more than once. What she really means, is not recreate the same quilt – but work in series.
So she took the panel and the fish and put the skeleton in the bathtub. Very fun and creative.
Finally, she makes a lot of these portraits, and tells a story with each one. She is in the middle of the story right here. About a gal who ended up with baby alligators in her hair.
I don’t remember why this one has phones all over her head.
Or anything about this gals’ story. Luckily Jean came with a friend, so although it was raining cats and dogs, she did have company on the drive back home to Orange County.
There really is something wonderful about a program at the quilt guild. They are all very different, but inspiring in their own right.
Leah