Tag: Stitch Project: Georgia’s Window

– The jury’s still out

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Retrospective (7/24/2016)
Patch #198 Weather wise

I guess the new patches are here to stay.
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I’m reserving judgment on the newest weather patches made from the thrifted linen dress I bought last week …

They’re the Sunday, Tuesday, and Saturday patches in the last row, meant to depict overcast mornings followed by blazing hot Texas afternoons. I may keep them … I may not. We’ll see.
Meantime, I indulged myself in a look at my current works in progress … which are all too long to show in their entirety, so they’ve been strategically draped and folded …

Clockwise from the upper left:
   – Unnamed (2016 weather patches)
   – Georgia’s Window
   – Land of Flood and Drought (2015)
   – Remember 2016
And I’m thinking I need a design wall …

– Backlit

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Retrospective (7/18/2016)
Patch #197 Georgia’s Window Scraps II

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How Georgia’s Window will look once it’s hemmed and hung …

and another look at the original …

– Learning as I go (it’s all about process)

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Retrospective (7/20/2016) 

Patch #196 A patch of blue sky



An early piece of embroidery from the 1960s, when I was on the first of many learning curves.

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Georgia’s Window is coming together slowly, but surely …

The sash bars of the window surrounding each pane proved to be the biggest challenge, requiring front seams to be sewn on both sides of a very narrow strip of maroon linen …

created by overcast stitching each seam (14-18 stitches per inch) with the front sides facing out …

After which the inside edges are trimmed …
leaving the lower-most edge twice the width of the other three interior edges …

Finger-pressing the top two interior edges downward first …

the wider of the lower interior edges is then folded over the narrower edge …

so the sandwiched lower edges can be folded over the top edges …

pinned in place …

and stitched over the upper edges (which I believe to be akin to French or felled seaming) …

All that so that the front can continue to look exactly the same as it did before ..

while the back goes from looking like this …

to a much tidier finish ….

This reimagining of Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting Door through Window (1956) was influenced by looking at pictures and videos about Pojagi, a form of two-sided quilting used to make wrapping cloths in Korea. Any wonkiness introduced by my idiosyncratic methodology leads me to categorize this as “Pojagi-influenced” in my blog index (with an additional entry for “Bojagi” as there are those who use an alternate spelling).