
I digitized and embroidered this star as an applique. It is on one of my Christmas quilts now owned by my church.
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you are already enjoying this wonderful season. It is one of my very most favorite times of the year. We are having a relatively simple celebration this year, but it is still joyous. Right now I have The Piano Guys YouTube videos of Christmas music playing while I write this. They are fun. Have you seen the one with the Christmas scene and all the cameras riding around in the little train, on the Christmas tree, and in the drone flying in the room? Here’s the link. It’s really fun. Or how about the one all done in legos. Here’s that link. So creative and beautifully performed.
Well, I finished the Two Birds quilt along with completing the filming of the videos. The whole stack of hours and hours of videos I made while I made the quilt, along with the voice over reading, and the intro and exits parts we filmed together last weekend are now being edited by my oldest son.
I have written the pattern and workbook that goes with it, and that too is being edited by the family team. I don’t know when we will get the first video of that project published but hopefully not long now. It’s a big job to edit such a tangle of videos, voice overs and corrections into three publishable videos that make sense and are also interesting. It has already taken much longer than any of us anticipated, but that was primarily due to my unrelated circumstances this year that delayed things, such as my cataract surgery among other things. But that is all behind me now and I greatly look forward to the coming new year.
I have every expectation that we will produce much more content for my YouTube channel at a bit faster pace and with ever increasingly interesting projects and building professionalism. I have gotten to where I don’t get bothered by the cameras, know how to set them up properly, and have lots of fun ideas for new stitching/quilting/videoing projects. I have learned that the videography is as important as the making of the fabric art piece to make it all work and find it also very interesting.
I still have only about a third of the subscribers and a fourth of the viewership needed to monetize the YouTube channel, but it is growing and I nevertheless enjoy being able to share my projects with my viewers. I hope you all enjoy the videos and will be happy to see them when a new one is published. We have several projects already planned for the new year.
First of all, I want to create some new wool applique by machine projects, because I think it is possible to make some stunningly beautiful pieces in this category that has hardly been touched in the quilting/fabric art world using the machine and my initial project was only a basic introductory layout of the techniques. It’s an adventure to see how far this can go.
Then I have three new show quilts in mind for 2o22 that I think you will all love or at least enjoy watching me make them. I hope I can succeed in getting all three made.
There will be a number of short and shorter videos showing techniques and use of tools.
And then I need to make some new clothes. I have everything I need for them and will try to spread them across the year so I have something new and fun to wear once in a while. I probably won’t buy any ready-made clothing this year just as a sort of challenge to myself for fun. I haven’t decided whether or not to video these projects. What do you think?
Sew happy everyone! Have a wonderful holiday season and I hope you also Have Fun in Your Studios!!!