show 713-Quilting Legend

[wendy w.]

Hope it's ok to resurrect an old thread. But Yvonne is totally inspiring, not only her work but also in the way she's faced illness.

I watched this show on a wet horrible afternoon a few weeks ago and then scribbled a drawing of myself and made a quick little quilt inspired by her and giggled the afternoon away. This is a link to it.

So I recommend watching this show and having a play.

[Rita C.]

Twiglet, I couldn't get the link to work. But I agree with you about Yvonne Porcella - I found her inspirational too. If you look at my profile you can see a couple of faces I did after watching the show too!

[wendy w.]

This link may work :?

Love the face you made, very creative 8)

[Betty J.]

Oh both of you made wonderful faces! Makes me smile.

[Rita C.]

Twiglet, love the self-portrait - it's a work of art! And the Avatar is wonderful too. I just made a sheep quilt! Love sheep. Thanks BJ.

[Renata L.]

Rita and Twiglet--how did I miss the Yvonne Porcella episode? Love the faces both of you did--so colorful, so much fun to stitch, I am sure. I just finished watching Melinda Bula; it will be Yvonne Porcella this evening for me. Thank you!

[wendy w.]

You'll enjoy it.

Rita what did you friend say when you gave her the drum face with spaced out eyes and a crazy look :lol: I've drawn a friend with leafy hair and a dog across her head. When I have my machine back I'll sew it.

[Norma H.]

I too love Yvonne Porcella. Love your face quilt.

[Rita C.]

Twiglet, the 'drum-head' portrait was for my step-daughter who is a musician and artist herself. She loved it! The funny thing is that there is a certain likeness to her in it that I did not do intentionally. I thought that I had these two on my profile as well but I didn't so here they are. The first one is of me and the second one is my DH:

[Renata L.]

So cool, Rita! 8) 8) 8) Bet you had fun making them!

[Rita C.]

Renata, I had such fun doing these. They were so liberating. You will love the show it is so inspiring and so moving.

[Renata L.]

Thanks, Rita! I was going to watch it last night but was overcome by other events (nice ones!), but I have it on my schedule to take a break and watch it today. I could tell by how special your faces were that your creativity burst out from the seams, so to speak, because they are lively, colorful and just delightful. I really want to try and make one.

[Nancy R.]

Hi Rita - I love your faces! These are one more thing on my to-do list, but they will probably keep sliding down since unleashing my creativity is VERY uncomfortable for me! It'd be a good thing for me to do, but very difficult to make myself do it!

Nancy

[Rita C.]

Thanks Nancy. I just used left-over pieces of fabric that had steam-a-seam on them that I just couldn't bring myself to throw out. It is very liberating to not worry about shape or colour, and just have fun. I know you would enjoy it once you got going Nancy, give it a try, go on, go on, go on!

[Rita C.]

Nancy, I think you would be surprized if you just start fusing fabric to fabric and just snip and sewing and not think about it--it could be really fun for you.