'IN HIM' SET ASIDE

 Quilt inspired by Paul's words in Athens. Acts 17:28 

'For in Him we live and move and have our being.' 

                                    Added the buttons yesterday.  Maybe it is finished.  

Will set the quilt aside for now. I have some Christmas presents to design. 

OVER THE WEEKEND

Sewed on binding.
Cleaned up studio. 
Ahead - sewing on buttons.

click on studio photo to enlarge. 
'In Him' quilt on work-wall.

BINDING ON

Binding on and golden cord tacked down. Process continues. 

WORKING ON 2 PROJECTS

I worked on Zach's book in Blurb's BookSmart program. Here's one of his original pages.

On the In Him quilt, I played with adding and substracting shapes and buttons.  Not working.  I realized the problem. I needed to crop the quilt.  At the end of the day I was taking the binding off all 4 sides before I crop. 

LOOKING AT THE POSSIBILITIES

• cut two more strips of binding 

• sewed binding on this afternoon

• framed off nicely click/enlarge image 

• add more floating shapes ?

• looking at the possibilities

Quilt inspired by Paul's words in Athens: 'For in Him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, We are His offspring.' Acts 17:28

TO CROP OR NOT

tacked down gold • tried binding fabric • to crop or not • a few more floaters needed

THE PROCESS CONTINUES

Pinned the gold back on.  Just tacking it down here and there. Will see how that goes.

Doubled up blue machine stitches across the quilt. 

Looked at button and beads for adding later.

The process continues.

IN THE STUDIO TODAY

Removed the gold. Brown 'turf' fabric scrap not working. 

Added floating shapes. More machine quilting. 

INDECISION, MISSTEPS AND QUANDARIES

"For in Him we live and move and have our being."

I am pondering how to say what I want to say, what I am compelled to say in this quilt.  It is rather risky letting you see that this is not easy for me. Also-it is not completed. In the mixing bowl of process is the brown-I have some plans for making that work. It does not work here, yet I want to use it. The emptiness is bothering me at the top.  So - in the process there is indecision, missteps and quandaries that I'm going through. But that is the creative process. 

I think I want to use a filmy golden organza.  I may take the 'trailing gold' off.   Process.

HIS TURF !

I've been thinking alot about a conversation with a friend as I ponder Acts 17:21,  

"In Him we live and move and have our being." 

This verse is not about some quasi, trumped up feeling, us floating mindlessly along. 

I'm thinking ROOTED in TRUTH - SOLID - CONNECTED - to HIM on His Turf .

So today I pulled out some turf !

IT'S MOVING ALONG

"For in Him we live and move and have our being." 

words of Paul from Acts 17:28 inspiring this new quilt

Machine quilted today. More tomorrow. Quilt on couch for photo. It's 'moving' along.

I LOVE MY WALKING FOOT

I love my walking foot for machine quilting.

It has 'feet' that walk on top of the three-layers of fabric & batting, so the layers do not bunch up.

Today, with the walking foot, I machine quilted along the edge of each floating shape. 

Photo: reverse side of quilt, where all threads are brought to the back and knotted. 

BASTING

"For in Him we live and move and have our being." 

made the three layer 'sandwich' today:

fabric backing-low loft batting-quilt top 

pinned and basted photo above 

tomorrow machine quilt

finished quilt top on right - to enlarge-click

AT THE SEWING MACHINE

I believe I finished the quilt top today.  I'll let it sit a day and then decide.  

"For in Him we live and move and have our being." 

words of Paul from Acts 17:28 inspiring this new quilt

WORKING ON THE IRONING BOARD

"For in Him we live and move and have our being." 

words of Paul from Acts 17:28

Continuing to push fabric around, trailing some metallic cording across the surface and trying out some buttons. Working on the ironing board, heat setting shapes with fusible web. 

CREATING TODAY

"For in Him we live and move and have our being."

Verse inspiring a new quilt series.  Today in the studio.

SEWING IN THE DARK

"For in Him we live and move and have our being."

So little time to work today.  When I made it up to my studio, the good lightng was long gone.  It was raining again. My work room was dark.  After putting the track lighting on, I made the decision to move ahead and start sewing the scrap pieces to the sky background. So here we go... Looking forward to working on it tomorrow. 
Photo: uneven lighting but this is how the piece looked when I left to make dinner. 

I CALL IT SPIRIT LED

"For in Him we live and move and have our being." words of Paul from Acts 17:28

What fun working on something so free  - no set direction - just loose ideas - fabric scraps floating on sky fabric.  Some might call this approach intuitive, I call it Spirit led.

Last week I began with a different sky background. Next day it changed to what you see above. This afternoon I took the fabric off the wall and worked flat. Easier to see how buttons, sequins and metallic threads might look floating along with the fabric scraps.` Yes, moving with the Spirit.

A QUILT SERIES IS BIRTHED

"For in Him we live and move and have our being." 

Sometimes a Bible verse pops into my head - I'm not mentally going through verses I might apply to a situation - no it's not like that - it just comes.  I was thinking about my little grandson, when this verse came to me. "For in Him we live and move and have our being." Acts 17:28.  He took a bad fall recently, resulting in a concussion. I was so thankful to God that he was not seriously hurt.  

As the words of that verse played over and over in my head, inspiration for a new quilt series came rather un-expectantly a week later.  Again I was not mentally going through some ideas to picture the verse.  A very loose picture simply came into my mind's eye - shapes floating on a sky background.  

Inspiriation took root and out came hand-painted sky fabric and boxes of scraps.  I began trying out an idea on the work-wall - sky fabrics up first and fabric scraps floating on top. 
I'm excited about the possibilities.  A quilt series had just been birthed.