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July 11, 2012
Kathy
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Sewing with Vinyl

Posted in Sewing: Finished Bags & Pouches

I am up to my eyeballs with a large local sewing order. It’s great fun meeting someone new  and working together to tweak some of my sewing designs to meet their needs.  I find design tweaking absorbing and time consuming.  I always learn something new.

One of the tweaks is adding a vinyl pocket on to a cell phone clutch. I’ve never used vinyl before and it is kind cool to work with.  A trip to JoAnne’s  to check out vinyl, I found that the lower the gauge the thinner the vinyl is. I have opted to work with an 18 gauge vinyl for sturdiness.

Vinyl wants to stick to your machine when sewing.  I found  that there are a lot  sewing blogs that  suggest  adding scotch tape to the bottom of your sewing foot.  I tried it and it works great! Adding a small strip on either side of the needle plate, under the foot helped too.  It glides right through when sewing.  Futuregirl.com has great photos  and instructions

Source: futuregirl.com via Cindy on Pinterest

Another tip from byannie.com   is to keep the tissue paper that comes with a roll of vinyl with the piece of vinyl you are working on. Seems obvious ….. now.  Those edges of the vinyl are really hard to see and the tissue paper helps a lot.

I’ll definitely be experimenting with vinyl in the future.  but for today, vinyl playtime is over and it’s time to work on the order and also finish up a painting that is almost done.  Enjoy your day !

May 18, 2012
Kathy
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Purple Clematis Wall Hanging, Part 2 Finished

Posted in Peeking Behind the Easel, and Sewing: Finished Bags & Pouches

It's finished! What fun this quilt was!  Take a look and see what you think : )

purple clematis wall hanging by kathy sibley sibstudiosewing at etsy

 My favorite parts are the painted clematis and the quilting. I used a  heat sensitive pen to sketch out the clematis across the purple and white blocks to use as a guide for the quilting on the side panels.

purple clematis sibstudio dot com

  I'm ready to start the next one!  You can find this quilt later this morning at my SibStudioSewing shop at Etsy

May 16, 2012
Kathy
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Purple Clematis Wall Hanging, Part 1

Posted in Peeking Behind the Easel, and Sewing: Finished Bags & Pouches

I rarely used a pattern when creating a quilt. I usually have an imagine in mind and the trick is figure out how to make the imagine a reality.  If I am designing something  way out of the box, I use the tracing paper sheets taped together to draw out the actual quilt and proceed to make  the pattern pieces. In the case of this quilt, graph paper worked  just fine to draw out my design.

Tools for designing your own quilt sibstudio dot com

The little notebook on the right has the quilt idea that I am working on. I sketch out sewing ideas the same way I do for painting ideas. The graph paper has the nuts & bolts measurements and design for this quilt.

I wanted the quilt to be a vertical rectangle with a center panel of painted flowers. The sides will be narrow strips that picked up the colors of the flowers. The main color will be white to give the over all quilt a fresh, bright, contemporary  look.  I have finished the center strip of painted flowers.

Center strip of painted flowers for quilt sibstudio dot com

I used photos of clematis taken in the yard as my reference.  Stay tuned to see the finished quilt – it is almost finished!

May 15, 2012
Kathy
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Pink Rose and Stripes Tote

Posted in Art Work, and Sewing: Finished Bags & Pouches

New painted and quilted tote up on my SibStudioSewing shop. The pastel fabric, with it's stripes of pink, rose, cream and sage green, reminded me of a rose bush in the back yard.   I  painted  simple wild roses along the top with acrylic fabric paints in the same colors as the stripes on the top cream band. 

I love how the quilting around the roses made the roses really pop. After sewing  and quilting, I added a little line of leaves and vines about 2/3 down the tote. Inside is a cream and little pink roses fabric and lots of pockets.  This was a really fun tote bag to make and is truly one of a kind..  You can find this tote and more at my sewing shop. 

April 27, 2012
Kathy
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Monarch Butterfly Wall Hanging

Posted in Art Work, and Sewing: Finished Bags & Pouches

Sometime ago, I found the most beautiful Monarch butterfly wing fabric. It was a little remnant that I fell in love with. Unfortunately, that was all there was left …..just that little remnant. Just enough to make a border for a small quilt or wall hanging. I've had an image in my mind and finally got to work on making that image a reality.  Below is the butterfly painted on lavender cotton.

  Monarch painting on fabric

I used a heat sensitive pen to sketch out the butterfly, then painted it with Jaquard acrylic fabric paints.  You can see the butterfly wing fabric on the lower right.  Below the border is sewn on, it's sandwiched with batting and a backing, pinned, and ready for quilting.

Monarch butterfly painted and ready to quilt sibstudio blog

I used free motion stitching and mimicked the fanciful flitting that butterflies do as they move from flower to flower.  The border is quilted to loosely look like a the monarch wing.  Here is the finished wall hanging:

Monarch butterfly wall hanging by kathy sibley

That is all there is left  of the butterfly wing fabric. It turned out exactly as I had pictured.  : )  You can find this at my SibStudio Sewing  shop.