Showing posts with label SAQA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SAQA. Show all posts
Thursday, May 3, 2012
"Patio Garden" donation quilt for SAQA
Finished at Last and Off in the Mail
I have finished my mini quilt and will be sending it to SAQA on Friday. I am still recuperating from being ill but I am much better than I was a few days ago; at least I can eat and stay up a little more. I worked on the quilt a little bit each day and I am glad I got it finished. Now that I feel a little better I am going to start another quilt. I haven't quite decided what I will do. I am leaning toward making a quilt with an Ocean scene. I also want to make a quilt featuring the Moon. I would like to work on both of them at the same time and I maybe able to if I can keep the materials to make each separated.
The last time I wrote I said I would post more picture of the quilt I just finished with a little more explanation of each of the steps I did to make this quilt. I am using a 3 mega pixel camera for these photos. I have a new Sanyo 10 mega pixel camera that my nephew gave me but I haven't learned how to use it yet. I am going through the manual to try and figure it out. Wow for me I think this might take awhile. So in the meantime for this blog I am going to keep using my old 3M camera.
I was able to take pictures with the new camera and in order to post them I need to put in a different reader on my computer so I can get the photos uploaded showing the first steps I did in making the quilt.
In the meantime I took photos today of the finished quilt so I could post them right now. The main reason in posting the earlier pictures of the quilt is to keep a record of how I made the quilt.
After I finish posting I want to make my friend a carob cake for her birthday. She is not allergic to chocolate but when I gave her a piece of a carob cake I had made she really liked the carob. I have ask two of my friends to try carob and they both liked it as well as chocolate. I add Pero, which is a grain-based coffee substitute, and cinnamon to my cake batter when I make a carob cake and the combination of flavors is very good. Carob is also more nutritious than chocolate.
I like to eat new things and right now I am just starting to eat Seitan, a meat substitute that is high in protein and carob. I am eating totally vegan to try to help maintain my health better. It's really challenging to do art when I keep getting sick. I have many things wrong with me physically, but doing my art keeps me alive, so I will do whatever is necessary so that I can keep creating.
Well back to the photos. I am going to show the steps I used as I was making the quilt.I will post pictures of the finished quilt
Maybe I will post my Carob cake recipe tomorrow . Maybe some of you like carob or would like to try carob. I use toasted carob for my cakes . I think it is best for making cakes and other desserts. I also like it for making Mole.
The last time I wrote I said I would post more picture of the quilt I just finished with a little more explanation of each of the steps I did to make this quilt. I am using a 3 mega pixel camera for these photos. I have a new Sanyo 10 mega pixel camera that my nephew gave me but I haven't learned how to use it yet. I am going through the manual to try and figure it out. Wow for me I think this might take awhile. So in the meantime for this blog I am going to keep using my old 3M camera.
I was able to take pictures with the new camera and in order to post them I need to put in a different reader on my computer so I can get the photos uploaded showing the first steps I did in making the quilt.
In the meantime I took photos today of the finished quilt so I could post them right now. The main reason in posting the earlier pictures of the quilt is to keep a record of how I made the quilt.
After I finish posting I want to make my friend a carob cake for her birthday. She is not allergic to chocolate but when I gave her a piece of a carob cake I had made she really liked the carob. I have ask two of my friends to try carob and they both liked it as well as chocolate. I add Pero, which is a grain-based coffee substitute, and cinnamon to my cake batter when I make a carob cake and the combination of flavors is very good. Carob is also more nutritious than chocolate.
I like to eat new things and right now I am just starting to eat Seitan, a meat substitute that is high in protein and carob. I am eating totally vegan to try to help maintain my health better. It's really challenging to do art when I keep getting sick. I have many things wrong with me physically, but doing my art keeps me alive, so I will do whatever is necessary so that I can keep creating.
Well back to the photos. I am going to show the steps I used as I was making the quilt.I will post pictures of the finished quilt
Maybe I will post my Carob cake recipe tomorrow . Maybe some of you like carob or would like to try carob. I use toasted carob for my cakes . I think it is best for making cakes and other desserts. I also like it for making Mole.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Moon Gate Garden Quilt
I used reverse appliqué to make this moon gate. I had several beautiful floral fabrics on hand so I decided to cut out my garden plants from them.After I cut them out, I used a tiny bit of fabric glue to attach them to the surface then I stitched everything down by machine. I think it makes a beautiful small quilt and it is not at all hard to do.
This quilt is 12" x 12" and I was able to complete it in a couple of days. I am very pleased how it turned out. I love SAQA. You can learn more about them on www.SAQA.com. For any artist who yearns to be more professional or to have better exhibit potentials, this is definitely the right organization. I am very grateful to them for helping me to continue to be a member, and this auction of these little quilts will help raise money to help SAQA help artists like me and many others with many things to make help us get good exposure for our artwork, and to become known for the art we do make.
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