Video tutorial Archives

While scrolling for things to watch as I plodded along on my elliptical machine, I came across a wonderful Netflix documentary.

It follows the work of Christoh Niemann as he talks about many of his “New Yorker” covers, and also about his life and attitude toward creativity.

Here is a bit of his work to tempt you further…..

…and don’t you love the front and back cover in this design……

As soon as the video started, I was mesmerized and I hope that you are too…..

In researching this video a bit more, I found that there was actually a Netflix series called “Abstract: The Art of Design”.

If you have Netflix, you might check it out and find other videos…

NOW I don’t have to worry about what I am going to watch tomorrow……Netflix here I come!!

Since I had such good luck working with the straight rulers, today I decided to try out one of the other rulers that I already own. This time it is a Westalee ruler in a flower petal design…..

The first thing that I tried was an all-over fill design that I saw Angela Walters demonstrate. You start by quilting around the design once……

And then, without moving the ruler, you backtrack around a little ways…..

Next you turn the ruler at an angle and repeat the process. After a few minutes, I had an entire section filled with these designs……

Looking at this I realize that I need to add more variety in the angles so that it doesn’t look as much like one long strip.

Speaking of long strips, I tried doing a border design and ended up with this…..

By keeping the ruler completely still, it is so easy to backtrack…..you can see that I messed up once!!

Next I wanted to try making a “leaf wreath”. When I was watching another video about using one of these rulers, she talked about the hole for the tack…..there’s a hole for a tack???? Oh that is why the ruler set came with 2 tacks!!!

Well look at that!!! By centering this hole over the tack it means that the ruler freely turns in a 360 degree circle!!!

Now for the hilarious part…… in November of last year I was practicing ruler quilting using a charity quilt and I talked about using a tack when working with a circle ruler and showed this photo…..

Notice that the tack is facing down which really worried me because I was afraid that I would scratch my machine. Today I learned that the tack is supposed to be inserted at the back with only the point on the quilt surface!!!! Well that makes a LOT more sense!!!

I started playing with the design with this being my first attempt…..