I had to remind myself today to hold studio time more sacred. I realized that I have just over a month to complete my current quilt if I want to enter it into Houston. So I ignored the ringing phone and did everything I could to finish cutting out the appliques on my latest quilt. I had to re-do the turban — I really didn’t like the fabrics in my 1st effort & the actual drawing in the turban needed some tweaking.
Even though the light is at the back of her head, all of that white just looked wrong so I switched it with my medium tone used on the front of the forehead to add balance. I then added some deeper tones in the folds and ignored the final value I had in the drawing — I didn’t have enough in my new fabric range & I decided it looked fine without it.
I am so pleased with it. Strange that the turban would be the part that gave me the most trouble.
Tomorrow I will begin covering the raw edges with an applique stitch — I use a narrow zig-zag. That will take me about a week — although it will be next week until I finish it as I have company coming tomorrow for a few days. Nose to the grindstone.
She is beautiful, Ginny.
It looks fantastic. The machine applique very tedious.
She looks ready to say “I want to be your friend.” Love the perfection of the ear.
I absolutely love your blog and your work. The latest is fab!
She is beautiful! I especially like the way you have captured her eyes.