I really had a lot of fun working on this piece all day yesterday. Spent way more time than I expected, and made a few costly (time-wise) mistakes, like accidentally adhering the two halves of my triangles to each other when ironing on the freezer paper... but I think it's been worth it. With a little luck, I will have time tonight to finish the fusing. Here's a photo-journal of the day:
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| I used AutoCAD to enlarge one of the squares from my last post to a six-inch size, printed it onto freezer paper, and then adhered it to triangles of black fabric that had been backed with fusible webbing. |
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| Here's a look at the first cut-out pieces, making sure I know where they all came from! |
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| Starting to see the pattern emerge.... |
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| OMG, what have I done? |
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| After all that cutting, I laid out a piece of white fabric and used a heat-erase marker to rule out 6" x 6" squares. Turned out my pieces were not precisely 6" (moi, imprecise? ) but the design allowed for some fudge factor, thankfully. The printout of the full design was needed to make sure I was putting things in the right places. |
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| Starting to take shape... |
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| Trying to separate pieces that had been accidentally fused resulted in a severe case of the fuzzies. Hope I can trim/brush them out when I'm done. I gave up at about 10 pm last night. |
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| Here's how it looked at bedtime. I had put up all the cut pieces that were not fused wrong, so tonight I have to re-cut more fused pieces... but it will be worth it, I really love this design. |
I will probably post it to the FFFC site after completing the fusing. It was suggested that we could just do paper or cut-outs photographed, but I love this one so much I want it to be a finished piece. I am hoping I can get some good feedback on how to bind and quilt it. I'm not sure if it wants a black border or not. Can't wait to see what the other FFFC members have done, but don't want to look too soon, it's more fun to see a big "reveal" at the end.
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