Friday, October 21, 2011

Do What You Know...

I found the theme of challenge #3
to be....
a challenge!

As you recall, I had a couple of false starts before
I did what I know
and I ended up creating these...

challenge #3, tools: Where's My ....?

Well, not really these.

But this...

challenge #3, tools" Where's My....?

Yes, it is really just ONE quilt!!!

I started with a couple of photos of my cutting table in its often state of disarray
(yes, I am not proud of it but it is reality!)

 I edited them using tools in Picnik,
challenge #3
printed three of them on muslin,
and bordered  the photos using a couple of 
my sunprints that have tools...
safety pins...
sun dyed fabric

and 
scissors...

sun dyed fabric

I then tried my hand at thread sketching
(I took a class with Nancy Prince last year and never finished the project,
but hey! I learned a lot!)

thread sketched rotary cutter
and added a piece of velcro on the back of the rotary cutter.

Then I got the idea that this is by no means the only tool
that gets lost on my cutting table, so...
since I had a piece of velcro on the front of the quilt
to hold my rotary cutter....


challenge #3, tools" Where's My....?

I also added a strip of velcro to the back of the quilt..

challenge #3

to hold my extra tools
while I display one on the front...

challenge #3

depending on what disaster has afflicted me for the moment.

And yes...
there are days when I feel that I have lost
one of the most basic tools I have...

a thread sketched brain
(my brain!)

9 comments:

  1. LOL ... I'll add that again LOL! This is a quilt many of us could use in our studios. How ingenious!

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  2. oh, I'm with you on that. do you know where my point turner is? or my extra pair of scissors.

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  3. What, a mess in ones studio? I can't imagine!! Just kidding. A fun take on a "tool" problem common to us all. Your thread work is amazing.

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  4. OH! What a fun and funny way to address this theme! I relate to my relationship with tools being a out HUNTING for them all too often! Pi love the thread painted pieces and how you can change them (and hopefully not lose them!)

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  5. what a wonderful fun piece! I always enjoy seeing pics of your studio, as mine so often looks the same way, but it's when I "cleanup" that I'm always losing my tools! Your thread painting is incredible - wow! and hey - I think that's my brain that has wandered off!

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  6. This is so inventive. And so fun! Your thead appliques are really great, so you did some thread painting after all! I don't think my brain has wandered off, unfortunately, I know, lol

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  7. How much fun is this...what an wonderful interpretation of the theme Lisa. How did you do all of the thread-sketched pieces, in particular the brain. Oooooo I love your thread sketching, kinda puts mine to shame.

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  8. Lisa, you have such a fun sense of humor! Love the thread painted tools, and perhaps you've come up with a unique way to help keep track of all those tools!

    And yes, I can definitely relate to the bit about losing one's brain---

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  9. Oh Lisa, I love this!! It’s a real UpstateLisa original! What a fun way to approach the theme and so true!

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