sewlinzi Posted February 8, 2009 Report Share Posted February 8, 2009 I have had quite a successful weekend of finishing things for a change. There is my red, white and blue top for a competition called Flying Colours - still thinking about the quilting... made 2 quilt panels for curtains to keep the draught out of the yurt door so it is a pair of yurtains;), and had a go at a ridiculously trapunto stuffed buddah head. A friend gave me a piece of silk that had been treated with fabric stiffener and stretched over a stone buddah head like a mould. I put far too much gold paint on it but wanted to see what would happen. I also realised that I have lost the ability to quilt nicely on a DSM! LINZI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewlinzi Posted February 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2009 Yurtains Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewlinzi Posted February 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2009 Gold Buddah Trapunto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JillFrazior Posted February 8, 2009 Report Share Posted February 8, 2009 Linzi....you have, by far, the greatest looking Yurt I've ever seen! I just love it! Flying Colours quilt is wonderful....can't wait to see your finished piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witha'K'quilting Posted February 8, 2009 Report Share Posted February 8, 2009 I like the Flying colors quilt top. Very nice in RWB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoleneK Posted February 8, 2009 Report Share Posted February 8, 2009 Great job on the yurtains and I love the Buddha. It really turned out cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbi Posted February 8, 2009 Report Share Posted February 8, 2009 Love them all Linz, How did you do the Budda's face? It's wonderful! The RWB is like a blue and white kalidascope (sic?) I'm making for my DIL's church raffle. The blocks are only 7" and since I cut two - one for me - it's been quite tedious... 72 blocks for each quilt.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stagecl Posted February 8, 2009 Report Share Posted February 8, 2009 It all looks wonderful:D Love the Budda's head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veg-girl Posted February 8, 2009 Report Share Posted February 8, 2009 Love the yurtains and the buddha, which should also look good in the yurt (gur, I think in outer mongolia, which are the only ones I've ever seen) The buddha looks as if its made from beaten metal. Looked at your blog today, if you're going to Birmingham we must meet up. I,m hoping to meet up with some of the ladies from Claudias classes in germany, so you could join us too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmyhogan Posted February 9, 2009 Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 Linzi, I Really like the Yurtains and the Buddah head is Fantastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheryll Posted February 9, 2009 Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 Now we are all curious to know if you live in a yurt? We would all love to see pictures. Love your red , white and blue quilt. The Budda is amazing. It looks lik real gold or metal. I like the funny yurtains. Send more pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bekah Posted February 9, 2009 Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 WOw wow wow Linzi those are all great but my goodness the golden Buddah is way out the ballpark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandra Darlington Posted February 9, 2009 Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 Love your Buddah and the yurtains! You are so creative!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenna Posted February 9, 2009 Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 Love the yurtains Linzi! And the budda does look like real metal, what paint did you use on it? Cheryl, do a search on "yurt"m. Linzi posted pictues awhile back, it's really cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewlinzi Posted February 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 Thanks... I play in my yurt - I light the stove and have coffee with friends or we eat there in the evening. I got it for my kids but decided it was for me! It has lots of rugs and comfy places to sit and a log stove (in a tent! - in the snow) I am going to buy another yurt frame and make the walls from quilted panels for an exhibition next year so I nned to get stuff finished to start working on that! The buddah head is silk with Stewart Gill metallic paint and a Shiva paintstick rubbed around the edge. It was 3D to start off with silk stiffened with the stuff you use for blinds, stuffed with toy stuffing, trapuntoed with Polydown then backround quilted with more Polydown - it was an experiment. The head is probably a bit too fat and it's quite difficult not to get wrinkles. My friend does them in felt and they are a lot smoother. I'm supposed to be coming up with some sort of trapunto Buddah for Birmingham this year. I am coming down, Veg-Girl, and would love to meet up with some real-life longarm quilters - I just haven't quite told my husband just how many quilt show trips I am making this year so far... RWB is 16" Kaleeido blocks with random Flying Geese units... the inspiration was Royal Airforce colours, propellors, Red Arrows jets etc. I just decided to use up some crazy prints I already had instead of buying stuff specially so there are prints with crabs, fried eggs, sashiko and camouflage so not at all arty or chosen for colour value - just fun and slightly thrifty! Avoiding going out to chilly workshop this morning so coffee first and must think about the blog for the week... must do some work to pay for all my trips!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted February 9, 2009 Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 Hi Linzi. Hey girl, I love your things you made. The curtains for your yurt, the quilt and the buddah head are fab! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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