San Antonio has many beautiful parks that are sanctuary for many species of birds.
One of my Meemaw friends is a Master Naturalist, who is well versed in identifying birds.
We frequently go in search for particular birds that may be in the area during a particular season.
Phil Hardberger Park Conservancy is one of the parks we visit.
The conservancy provides a list of birds that can be found in the park.
One of the birds listed, is a yellow breasted chat. I have never been fortunate to see one in the park, so I decided to paint one on fabric.
I used pastels to paint the bird on a beige, linen memo.
Fabric markers were also used to highlight areas.
After thread sketching the block, I pieced a frame and border.
The block is a 9″ square after adding the pieces.
These blocks that I am making are for practice and trying new things.
I am making a list of areas that show improvement and those requiring more practice.
At the Texas Quilt Museum, I saw a binder that contained blocks made by various quilters.
I am thinking of making my own quilt block binder.
Such a precious bird block you made. I hope you get to see one in person at the park soon.
I am curious to how a quilt binder is made, another cool project idea of yours!
PS I love you new blog logo photo 😊
Thanks , Abbie. It was a 3” binder and the blocks had a Pelion seen on one side. The holes were punched into the Pellon. I guess since so many people visit the museum and go through these binders, the pellon was ripping. I’m thinking of maybe using a Muslim strip to attach the block. Or maybe I’ll get those plastic sleeves and place the blocks inside.
Oh, I can visualize it now. It sounds like a good way to take your blocks with you when you go to visit people, to show them 😊or bring to a quilt quild meeting.
I love your piece and I have to tell you something San Antonio related: a member in my SAQA art quilter group just returned from the national SAQA conference – TEXtiles (get it?) in San Antonio and she said: “I do not like Texas in general but I went to San Antonio for the first time and that place gives me a new perspective on Texas – it was awesome” 🙂
Of course I lived in Houston for 9 years and traveled quite a bit around Texas so I know there are many cool places in Texas (but San Antonio was one of our favs)
Our city does have charm. My favorite city is Austin…although the traffic is awful.
Again I just love your practice piece! I think you should start a book to put all of these in. So special. 😊
Do you have any suggestions as to how to put these in a book. I had seen a binder, with the blocks attached by sewing a strip of pellon. I was just wondering how else this could be done.
here is one suggestion 🙂
Here’s another one
http://ramblingrose.typepad.com/journal/fabric-journal/page/2/
These are great videos. Very helpful.
I’d be curious to know which one you decide to use. 😊
I have done the button method before and I liked it. Right now, I am not happy with my signatures, so everything is on hold. I got one of my Gelli plates today and I want to start playing around with those. As you can see, I have an attention span problem.:)
Good for you! I bought myself a Gelli plate too. 😊
Have you used them before? Any tips? I have been watching videos. I am looking forward to seeing your work.
Nope! I’m taking a class soon. 😊
Are you going to paint on fabric or paper?
Both 😊
I found this tutorial about Gelli printing on fusible interfacing: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=DO0ApN63RRk
Awe sad! The link didn’t work. 😢
Sorry. Go to youtube and type in how to Gelli print on fabric and you should be able to find the video on printing on fusible
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And another one
http://dragonfragments.blogspot.com.au/2008/07/putting-my-fabric-book-together-part-1.html
Thanks for all of these videos!
I hope they help! The last one, a blog post, part 1 & 2, looked really promising. 😊