Dolores Fegan - Art Quilts

Rabbits Return

Dolores — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:50:52 +0000

In 2004, somebody let about 30 bunnies loose in our neighborhood. We thought they had all died off , but we saw a solid black rabbit two days ago and yesterday and today the rabbit pictured below was in our garage and under the porch. We fed it and are hoping it stays around.

In progress

Dolores — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:13:21 +0000

I am trying to keep a record of the “Do Not Weep” quilt. After completely starting over with new designs I chose a new color scheme. Each woman will be a different color from light to dark of that color. Woman one is purple. After sketching her and assigning color value, I made a copy on double freezer paper.

Next I cut the woman out of heavy weight stabilizer. I then cut her out of medium purple about a 1/2 larger and wrapped that around the stabilizer and glued the edges down on the back. The next step was to cut out the darkest value from the freezer paper and fuse them on the fabric. I cut out the shapes, added fusing and positioned them in place using the holes in the freezer paper as guidelines.

That’s as much as I worked on so far. I did finish the the eight points for the mariners compass block for the star quilt, and picked out fabric for the 6 remaining houses in the “Strolling the Block” quilt. Next I must cut out all the fusible pieces.

Friendship Gift

Dolores — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:22:01 +0000

Below are some pictures of a small quilt I made as a friendship gift. It is made of words printed on fabric from the computer, then the fabric was dyed and had pieces of colored tissue paper added. I thread painted the tree and then made a quilt sandwich and free-motion quilted with invisible thread. The edges were finished with zigzag stitching.

What I’m working on now.

Dolores — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:34:24 +0000

Projects: 2 quilts for my son’s who graduate from Morehead State University in May. The youngest is getting a quilt of 12 inch star blocks and a larger mariners compass in the middle. The older is getting 12 house blocks decorated for the seasons. The applique on this set is all hand stitched.

Next I am working to complete my praying the passion series. I have four quilts of 13 planned quilts finished. Prayers and scripture verses will be added as standing plaques.

Finally I want to work on quilted journals, and a variety of small art quilts. (less than 15″)

My newest studio arrangement is working great. It is once again a complete disaster, but my tools are always where they are suppose to be. Yeah!

Do Not Weep for Me

Dolores — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:56:40 +0000

My daughter has posed for my bible women. Below is one of the poses. Each pose has been posterized and then put in gray scale. Each of the five women will use 5-6 values of a color. Other faces have been put on the images so all 5 women look different. I have drawn enlarged copies on news print and now will begin transferring this to freezer paper.

Flynn Quilting Frame

Dolores — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:41:05 +0000

Here are some pictures of the set up I used to quilt my triple Irish chain. I had to pull my table out to have room for the longer rods. On the right side it worked great because the frame could rest on my cutting and work table. When the frame went to the left side however it was a bit trickier because I didn’t have anything to balance it on and it gets heavy. I finally stacked some books and a box on my storage cubicles. This was not perfect, but worked in a pinch.

I think I will stick to smaller quilts because towards the end I had to adjust the frame at the end of each row. Earlier I was able to quilt three one inch rows. When the quilt was pushed all the way to the right side, I put the machine in reverse and went back the other way. Over all I was please with the quilting and it was pretty easy.

If I was doing a quilt this large with other that straight lines it would not have worked. Over all I like the Flynn frame best for quilts up to 48″.

Studio rearrangement

Dolores — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:28:24 +0000

Was cleaning my studio and my small peg board fell off the wall. This lead to a major overhaul of the entire room. The last picture is of the treat box and pocket that my daughter made for me to check each day.

Flynn frame

Dolores — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:16:23 +0000

My husband purchased some new rods for my Flynn frame so I can work on different size quilys. Need to finish adding the muslin to the rods and marking it. Only ran into one snag, my studio. I got distracted and started sorting scraps and the got out my UFO’s. Then decided to organize my quilts and tools. Now the studio is a disaster and I decided to rearrange the furniture and storage units. Ahhhhh!!!!!

So much for making Christmas presents this weekend.

Some Rust Dying Results

Dolores — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:08:00 +0000

These are some of my results from my rusted object fine. I wet the fabric in vinegar and water and covered it with clear plastic. The gray fabrics were then tea-dyed.

Objects for Rust Dyeing

Dolores — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:59:44 +0000

I was very lucky this morning. I found all the objects in these pictures at a yard sale this morning for about 6 dollars. They had so much stuff, it was hard to choose. I can’t wait until I have some time to dye again.