PINK IS PINK!

PINK IS PINK!

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Family of Trees

STAND BACK!! This new skirt makes me happy for so many reasons.  The easiest to explain is that I used a technique from the PARTY DRESS queen, Mary Adams.  Her book explains how to use bias strips which I cut to make the leaves of the tree.  A little more challenging to explain is why I used "Family of Trees" . . . ah--challenging but sweet for sure.  It is a song that I really like, and it ties in so beautifully to a cafe story my manager without equal daughter told me about the powerful love of connected family. Hand painted birds of course. A circle skirt which encompasses everything.

2 comments:

  1. I love bias. You can make your own shapes, literally paint with them. Ask me, I am finishing a small quilt with WAVY edges, and its so much more fun to follow the curves with a piece of homemade bias. Are you making your own?
    I have a great parallelogram pattern piece which will make you miles of bias. xo
    Loves Crookedness

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  2. Also, I have another bias method where you turn in the edges of each side of the strip using 1 pin on the iron board cover. It ends up looking like
    double fold bias tape, well, it is!

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