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So, here's what's going on in the Schmidt Studio these days......

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Sunprint Coat in Progress

11/18/2013

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I have just spent the last two weeks learning to use Weebly.com to create this new website.  Please take a look at it and let me know if it's working, where the typos are, and if there's something interesting here you'd like to chat about.  I really had a great time making this site - my son showed me how to use the site in about 10 minutes, there are tutorials, there is a great support site built in, AND they give you a free blog site!  And it's free, if you don't want the pro version (which, of course, I had to have), and it was fun!  Really, I'd do a page or so, then get to thinking, and run back to the computer and add some more stuff, some more quotations, change the pages, play around with the settings, add in a slide show, and by then it was 1:00 in the morning.  I swear, it's addictive!  I haven't put any videos up yet, but there are lots of pictures of quilts, of garments, journal quilts, about 20 essays, and a very information article in the Essay Section about Dealing with Difficult Thread.

What's going on in the Sewing Studio?

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I'm currently in the process of making a sunprint coat to replace the one that I used to wear everywhere, but slowly disintegrated into shattered silk dupioni.  I found some lovely South African sunprinted fabric (the fabric in the sashing) and made my own sunprints with Setacolor Transparent paints (the fabric surrounded by the sashing).   You may think it's a bit bright, but it's actually even brighter than it looks.

 I'm using a pattern I've used before, but I vaguely recall I had to take about 5" out under the armpits and taper that to the bottom, and put a box pleat in the back and shoulder pleats in the front to make it fit properly.  The thing is, it's not supposed to be quilted, just sort of hang, but I want it to have batting in it to wear when I make trips to colder states than California.  

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The thing is, it's not supposed to be quilted, just sort of hang, but I want it to have batting in it to wear when I make trips to colder states than California.  

This is the back, so far.  I have a grand and glorious plan for the sleeves, but you'll have to wait until tomorrow to see how that comes out.  I belong to the Tuesday Quilters who meet in the Dublin Senior Center in Dublin, CA, every Tuesday morning from 10:00 to noon.  Anybody is welcome, and that's where I'll be working on the sleeves tomorrow; hopefully, I'll be able to post at least one sleeve by then!


    Let me know what you think, leave a comment if you like, and let's start a conversation!

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Kelly O link
1/8/2021 03:38:05 am

Thankk you for being you

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Scott Stilson link
8/24/2023 09:34:05 pm

Awesome blog you havve here

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