Sara's Pun Irony

Irony is the Opposite of Wrinkly!  

I had trouble with this assignment. Even though I do appreciate a good pun, my wonderful husband has declared our home a pun free zone. We once had an acquaintance who made every conversational encounter an excuse to see how many puns he could produce, hence my dear husband's banning of puns in the home. I did get totally inspired when my very wonderful girl friend presented me with a custom T-Shirt for my birthday. The front declares (in rhinestones) "Stash Queen" and the back shoulder "Irony is the Opposite of Wrinkly". This quilt came as a complete mental image which was then filed away for the intervening months. 

The white fabric was densely stitched onto texture magic and steamed. The black circle in the white area has a thread sketched iron. I did this by tracing a clip art iron cartoon onto a piece of aged sulky solvy which had yellowed over the years and so let me see the black lines even on the black background. I placed black fabric under the solvy and tear away under it. I free motion stitched the iron outline. The image was all there and the stabilizers were easily torn away. 

The little circles were reversed appliqued into place. Getting a good final circle of the right size was difficult for me until my husband suggested I use one of his "junk" vinyl records (one of his current passions is collecting and listening to music on old vinyl records) as they are a perfect 12 inch circle.

The binding was less than successful as I wanted to arrange the colors so I used a wrapped rather than mitered corner. I am going to work on that technique!

As always this was fun and a great way to stretch

Irony is the Opposite of Wrinkly!

Carol's Pun Poetry - Poet-Tree

In the beginning when the word was chosen I was completely stumped. I started thinking about it and came up with poetry, which translated to Poet-Tree.

I copied a small picture that was my inspiration (it was about 3”) and used my enlarger to obviously enlarge it! I started out with a white piece of fabric and used fabric paints and Inktense sticks, not the pencils, to create my wood tree. I also used some masking for the

whites of his eyes, which I had never done before, and a hair dryer to dry th inks and paints when I added more color. Once I had him all painted up, I did stitched texture for his bark/mustache/face/hands and then cut him out of the fabric.

I then got another piece of fabric and painted his background. I attached him to the background and stuffed him a little so he would have a small belly. I then sewed him down and added more

quilting and fancy stitching, etc. His right hand and book were added last. The book cover is a small piece of silk and the pages are white cotton. I wrote the poem Trees by Joyce Kilmer in his little book, of course.

All in all, I like him quite a bit.