Design Wall Monday 2-18-13

Things are looking good.  Only 11 months till my birthday!  Yay!

The weather was just gorgeous this weekend.  For those who think Louisiana is all humidity, this weekend the humidity was 28% and the sky was crystal clear and cold.  What a nice way to spend the time.  Today the humidity went up because we have a front rolling across us bringing some ominous looking clouds.  We are expecting rain in the noon time.  And the current humidity is around 80%.

Oh, did you know that Colonel Sanders Secret Recipe of 11 Herbs and Spices was discontinued in 1964 after the sale of his franchise?  Interesting, that is why the chicken doesnt taste like it did when I was a kid!

Today I am working on my 50 Shades of Grey piece.  I like grey with an e rather than an a.  It just looks like  grey with the e.  The difference between the two is that gray is a color and grey is a colour!  LOL.  Like organize and organise.

Back to my piece.  I have done a sketch of what I want to do, but now I need to find the gradated grey thread to use.  I will call Red Stick in a moment and see what they have in the way of grey.

I also need to work on the next Quilt University Design Lesson.  It involves choosing color for the sketches we have made.  I have two I like and will choose very different color schemes for each of them.  She wants us to cut a strip from every solid or reading solid we have and sort them according to value.  That would take me a year!

The Bike of Squares looks like it needs to be bright primary colors.

The fountain looks like it needs more of a Southwest scheme.  In fact, I have some pots on fabric in a Southwest line.

The one on the left is the original drawing from a photo.  And the one on the right is the cropped, better version.

And the one below is even closer.  I kinda like them all so I am having difficulty seeing why one is a better design over the others just because it is changed.

We shall see.

Off to work on Grey!

Design Class

My design class is progressing.  The fact that I can't draw worth a lick hindered me the first week but now it is working to my advantage.

I had a picture of bikes.  the suggestion was to simplify the drawing so I drew only one of the bikes.  Next we were to break the drawing into parts using a grid.

Then the challenge was to use only one shape and draw the bike.  So I chose a rectangle.



I really like that one!

Preparing for the Retreat

I ahve so much I want to take to the retreat.  I hve so much I need to get done.  I may just take a totally new project and start and finish it there.

I can download my next class at Quilt University if the internet is working.  Sometimes it does, sometimes not.  The retreat center is smack dab in the middle of the country!  Nice!  But you need to have everything you need, or think you will need!

What I really need is to have a long arm set up there!  LOL.  I need to finish some of the tops in this pile that is growing ever higher.  I think I could just about outfit everyone in Baton Rouge with a quilt if I finished them all.  A hiatus needs to be declared on the creation of new patterns and fabric lines until I get my pile managed.

You can take a free class at QU if you want to test the water and see how you like it.  I find that I can take classes that challenge me to learn new things, rather than just to have another UFO laying around.  I really love QU.

 Meanwhile, I went to the grocery and purchased a small tube of toothpaste to take with me and DiNozzo happened to it.  I went out to put the grocery bags into the bag holder outside when I noticed the remains of the box scattered all over the yard.  It wan't until then I realized I had no more toothpaste for the retreat.  Thank you, DiNozzo!


More later, I need to go get myself a design notebook with no lines on the pages.

glen