Showing posts with label barn owl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label barn owl. Show all posts

Make a Picture E-Book Vlog Series

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downloadable color pages from character sketches, HERE.
Wondering what I've been up to in the studio?  It certainly isn't rearranging new furniture!  In fact, I'm so worried about the place that I've been meeting 2 and 3 deadlines per month with projects like entering the Oregon Book Awards and adding Smashwords e-books to my platform.  So, in the middle of all of it, I added a vlog series which shows you what I really do to make an e-book come to life.

Here, a gang of skateboarding owls are sketched out, colored, and given a personality on paper, while I, their author, try to determine just who(oo) Barny, Buddy, Hoot, Sawl, Snowy, and Great Gray are about, what they'd act like, and which skate trick level they'd be at.  Who am I kidding? Owls know all the skate tricks, no risk of falling - or failing.  You can watch them here, SUBSCRIBE HERE if you liked this video for updates to my Youtube Channel

My Winter Barn Owl Quilt is a Cheater..


Quilt!  Cheater Quilts are panels with a design on them which can be made into a quilt.  They are called cheater because the steps of cutting and piecing small pieces of fabric to form the design is not necessary.  A huge step is skipped, although the quilting, backing, and other steps are not.  They are not traditional quilting, because they emerge from one fabric printed image - usually in the center. This doesn't mean the edges can't be pieced together to be quilted.

I created this design to be easy quilting that has the look of a more difficult quilt.  Each section is printed on the fabric, though I made it to look pieced on the borders.  Like the snowflake corner details and border moon and trees.  I made the background to simulates hand-dyed pieces.

Quilting by hand or machine then adds artistry to make a blanket or wall hanging, however even the quilting is not required.   It can be hung as a sheet or sewn into various kinds of wall-hangings.

Personally, I like the trees together, so I made a cheater quilt fabric with just the trees, to be available in November 2014.  Winter Barn Owl and Midnight Snowflake backing fabric are now for sale at Spoonflower.