New work

This is where I am so far. The top photo is without the organza overlay.

The background fabric is green dupionni. The silver is a very thin ribbon, attached with Steam a Seam Light. I also have some ribbons and machine embroidery stitches. Nothing earth shattering.

Since the exercise calls for foil transfers, I need bonding powder in order to continue. I called around Toronto -- art supply shops, quilt shops, etc. No one I found carries Bo-Nash or Supermend.

I made arrangements to get some in a rather roundabout fashion. While surfing on the internet, I found a quilt and textile store in Munich which sells a, I hope, comparable product called "Texolit" (I think that's the spelling) as well as a foil I haven't seen yet -- it's a mixture of gold/silver/copper colours. I asked my daughter who lives in Munich to buy some and take it with her when she goes to Israel on February 5th. My brother-in-law is coming from Israel to Toronto on the 10th. So, assuming they meet up, I'll have my product by the 10th.

In the meantime, however, I sent out a post to the ArtQuilt list and one of the members, Larkin, very generously offered to share some Bo-Nash from her stash. And I just received another email from someone giving me the address of a quilt shop in Kingston which carries it.

I sure hope I fall in love with the foil transfer thing after everyone going to such lengths for me.

So I have to set aside this project and work on some others.

I lost my momentum and didn't do any stitching today. Tomorrow, I want to finish quilting a lap quilt.

Then I have to start on my Purim/Pesach/spring postcards. This entails an experiment with printing from the laser printer onto ribbon. I will let you know how (if) it works out.

Anyhow, that's all for now.