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- From: cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese)
- Subject: Re: Quilts (was: Re: sowing bags)
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- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 17:38:27 GMT
- References: <2B2AECA0.26033@news.service.uci.edu> <1992Dec29.183630.23309@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <lk3h76INNr32@news.bbn.com>
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- In article <lk3h76INNr32@news.bbn.com> dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec29.183630.23309@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, boylan@sltg04.ljo.dec.com (Steve Boylan) writes:
- >>
- >> In article <lipuccINN9jd@news.bbn.com>, dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
- >>
- >> > (If someone thinks this doesn't belong in this newsgroup, I'm sure we could
- >> > come up with some pagan themes for quilts.)
- >>
- >> Who needs an excuse? What ideas do you have for a quilt?
- >
- >I was thinking of the different star patterns that can be made with patchwork.
- >Eight and six pointed stars are easy to do (well, you have to sew fairly
- >well to make an eight pointed star match up in the center, but the basic
- >techniques are easy to do and the patterns are easy to find.) I still
- >haven't found a five pointed star pattern, and haven't figured out how to
- >draft one. I once saw something called a Moore-Penrose (?) tiling in a
- >math journal that can make five pointed stars, but they didn't look like
- >pentacles at all.
-
- [a bunch of neat ideas deleted]
-
- Before I ran out of money and had to put my quilting ambitions on hold,
- I was looking for some thinner brown corduroy for the following: make a
- nine panelled quilt with the four corner panels representing the four
- seasons. In each panel, make an applique of the same tree branch (this
- is the corduroy), and change it to suit the seasons. Make the Spring
- one with some red buds of the branch, and grey skies. The summer one
- could have a light blue sky (the blue skies would be the background
- panels) and some vivid green leaves in place of the buds. The fall one
- would have the same light sky with a few clouds, and red/orange/gold
- leaves. The winter one would have a very deep blue sky with patches of
- snow hanging in the crevices of the branch, perhaps done with fake fur
- applique, if that is possible. (I love applique, more than patchwork,
- since you can make nice curves and do it fairly quickly. Patchwork is
- constrained, and takes forever.)
-
- Now for the other five panels. The one in the middle would be an owl
- with a full moon over it, similar to the bitmap I posted (I would do it
- on this gorgeous blue crushed velvet I have, and make the owl white.)
- The remaining four panels would represent the elements, however you want
- it. You could do just a wans, a sword, a pentacle, and a cup, or if you
- were more confident, you could do little scenes for each actual elements
- -- air, earth, fire, and water.
-
- I still ahve this quilt in my head, and it's the first thing I'm going
- to work on when I'm able to get back into quilting.
-
- Blessings,
- Janis
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