Ha, I'm rapidly running out of shelf space again. My parents appeared with 28 more quilt books, and my collection is somewhere around 125 books now (still sorting em out).
That piercing shriek is specifically designed to be awful enough to chase human beings out of stores by itself, even if they don't think there's actually a fire! Either they have less sensitive hearing, or they were on a tight schedule and *really* wanted those craft supplies.
I have so many hobbit-themed quilts planned, it's absurd. The paper pieced dwarves are gonna hang out in their own dwarf quilt, which is kind of a prototype for a second dwarf quilt in a different scale and layout - I came up with the dwarf pattern by myself, and I'm still working the bugs out. I don't mind having two dwarf quilts. I really like dwarves.
The dragon nonsense is gonna involve scanning some of Tolkien's inked doodles and turning that into an appliquéd Smaug quilt. Scanning and blowing it up to a usable scale will be the hard part, since fusible webbing makes appliqué a snap.
Then there's a paper pieced block of Tolkien's signature, which I got off fandominstitches. That may turn into a book-shaped design, if it turns out well - I came up with a paper pieced layout I'm excited about, with an appliquéd spine.
I'm also noodling around with a hobbit door design - a good use for green scraps, but I do need a good brass button for it. I will have to search my collection.
Then there's the bed quilt made of traditional pieced blocks, whose traditional names tell the story of The Hobbit.
No idea how many of these I will actually make, but I am excited about them.
While these are all Hobbit-themed, I don't think any of them really pair well with Smaug or should be in close proximity to him on the wall, because Smaug has an extremely vivid, high contrast design and will clash with pretty much anything. He would go well with, perhaps, a New York Beauty in black and gold, or another paper pieced design. I currently have a black and white framed print near him, and it's working pretty well.
The orange print could go either way, you're right! It's one of those strong colors that can take over a quilt if you let it, like the Smaug fabric. I might circle back to buy it later; I was just sulky over not having more options.
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Date: 2019-10-06 03:46 pm (UTC)That piercing shriek is specifically designed to be awful enough to chase human beings out of stores by itself, even if they don't think there's actually a fire! Either they have less sensitive hearing, or they were on a tight schedule and *really* wanted those craft supplies.
I have so many hobbit-themed quilts planned, it's absurd. The paper pieced dwarves are gonna hang out in their own dwarf quilt, which is kind of a prototype for a second dwarf quilt in a different scale and layout - I came up with the dwarf pattern by myself, and I'm still working the bugs out. I don't mind having two dwarf quilts. I really like dwarves.
The dragon nonsense is gonna involve scanning some of Tolkien's inked doodles and turning that into an appliquéd Smaug quilt. Scanning and blowing it up to a usable scale will be the hard part, since fusible webbing makes appliqué a snap.
Then there's a paper pieced block of Tolkien's signature, which I got off fandominstitches. That may turn into a book-shaped design, if it turns out well - I came up with a paper pieced layout I'm excited about, with an appliquéd spine.
I'm also noodling around with a hobbit door design - a good use for green scraps, but I do need a good brass button for it. I will have to search my collection.
Then there's the bed quilt made of traditional pieced blocks, whose traditional names tell the story of The Hobbit.
No idea how many of these I will actually make, but I am excited about them.
While these are all Hobbit-themed, I don't think any of them really pair well with Smaug or should be in close proximity to him on the wall, because Smaug has an extremely vivid, high contrast design and will clash with pretty much anything. He would go well with, perhaps, a New York Beauty in black and gold, or another paper pieced design. I currently have a black and white framed print near him, and it's working pretty well.
The orange print could go either way, you're right! It's one of those strong colors that can take over a quilt if you let it, like the Smaug fabric. I might circle back to buy it later; I was just sulky over not having more options.