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HILLSBOROUGH GARDEN SERIES
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GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN SERIES
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MOUNTAIN GARDEN SERIES
Every watercolor I work on is an exercise in capturing the flickering light that is experienced in nature. I try to combine that light with colorful elements that flash before me while I move through an area. I love spending time in the mountains in the summer because I can get outside and hike around to experience these elements easily.
Fantasy Mountain Garden
Here are some photo notes I took yesterday on a walk.
Below are the Templates I cut. I made them out of cardboard. They can be used in cutting out the shapes of fabric to form the pattern. I wanted to make this very scrappy
Templates for pieces of the monkey wrench pattern
I have included the Math notes figuring the size of squares that the triangles can be cut from if you choose not to use the template. When cutting diagonals out of squares It is important to consider which sides are cut on the diagonal as that side will stretch. Diagonals should not form the outside edge of the larger square. Also triangles need to be cut at least 5/8 of an inch bigger than the finished shape so that points don’t get cut off where seams meet. One quarter inch for seam allowances for the small squares. That is figured into these measurements.
Layout of pieces that make up the Monkey Wrench pattern, interlocking of lights and darks
Cut Shapes are laid out to form the pattern
Shapes are sewed together and pressed starting with the small light and dark squares. I put all my squares together two opposing ways. An equal amount of each.
I have laid out the 11 squares I have with the odd square in the center. This pretty print presented itself at this time as I was pondering over how to lay it out. I inherited it from my mother or my great Aunt. It seems to me that it might serve as an anchor to hold the thing together since it has a lot of colors. It is light and airy even though it is dark and it has a fresh painterly flow about it. The floral pattern will keep the palette from going to far into that autumn and fall look. I plan to quilt the interlocking shapes into the whole cloth pieces.
I am going to make 10 more squares and then see how it looks. Those 10 squares will go down the sides and make it square. At that point I will decide if my plan is working and if that is the case I will sew it together.
Machine pieced interlocking squares and triangles form the Monkey Wrench pattern
I have determined that there are not enough square and that the large squares of fabric do not make an interesting design. I have to make more and I go at that for awhile and later determine I need 32 squares for the thing to work out nicely. Months pass and Covid 19 quarantine-stay at home starts up. I finally get them completed.! 2nd layout is on points. This design suits me the best. The first layout on square I did not like as much.
An assembly of 32 blocks on a square format. Below the layout is on point.
Highlights from our day at the Quilt In with the Cedar Grove Quilters
Sarah Troxler at NC History Museum
Quilts by Nancy Oliver, Marcia McDade, Ruth Richardson and Joanne Mathis
Orange Peel by Sarah Troxler, Small works by Kathi Lewis, and Morning Glories by Shirley Scarlett
Quilt Design by Barbara Phillips
Rachel Ray, Shirley Scarlett, Marianne Kimbro, Ruth Richardson
Sarah Troxler, Marianne Kimbro, Ruth Richardson, Guest Quilter, Shirley Scarlett, Rachel Ray
Shirley Scarlett, Rachel Ray, Sarah Troxler
Coastal Fantasy Landscape small watercolor