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Dear Friend, please excuse my absence and sparse postings, several important deadlines loom large on the horizon and I am currently concentrating all efforts on these commitments.  I hope to be back to sharing my art and life with you very soon.

Unveilling Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 3:16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon 

Finished Piece

Contemporary look, don't you think?
 The land and Dead Sea are made from batik fabrics. I printed the map on transfer paper. I spent all day on finding a good map, enlarging the right parts. Making sure it wouldn't become to pixelated, and still......I wish I could have covered the whole part in between the river Arnon and Jabbok. And I also wish I could have the areas Gad and Reuben bigger.
I like the verse printing, think that went really well.

I wanted to portray the possession of the land by the fingerprint, but also by creating a settlement. I drew the roads with inktense pencils and used my twin needle to create roads. The little houses are made by using a very small stitch length in zigzag.

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The verse is printed by using transfer paper. The river is drawn with inktense pencils and I used aloe vera gel instead of water to spread the ink. The gel works really well without bleeding the inks into the creamy fabric.

Fingerprint quilting

I drew fingerprint lines on thin paper and pinned it on top of my finished top layer

Following the lines

Tearing the paper away

Finish the quilt edge by twisting some embroidery cotton and securing it with a zigzag

Map printing

More development for the Deuteronomy quilt: I spent about half a day trying to find a suitable map with the area of Reuben and Gad. I had 2 ideas in mind of how to print part of the map on the fabric. Since my base fabric is about 35x35 cm, I can't run it through the printer. I have a piece of Lutradur, which is a non-woven, web-like, open structured paper. You can print on it and it give a nice soft look. But my printer wouldn't take it :( You also need an inkjet printer for it and we only have (had I must say) a laserjet printer. Since my hubby wasn't too happy for me running fabric and other weird stuff through his business printer he told me to buy an inkjet :), which I managed to get for $56 :)

I even managed to install it myself, which only a tiny bit of help;)

Most iron-on image transfer paper will only work on an inkjet printer. The only problem is that you have to mirror print you image. So I have been playing around with LibreOffice Draw and trying to mirror words...easier said then done. It's not very logical....:type your words, click on modify- convert to curve- back to modify- flip- horizontal. Yeah!

I photocopied the map onto the Transfer Paper and ironed in to my nice 'antique look' fabric. Mmmm....too dark and grey. Unfortunately I don't have more of that fabric :( Ok, one more try on a less nice fabric, but the outcome is way better :)

This is my final design

Right the printed map, but I didn't make it transparent, so it's way too dark. I like the one I did on the left. Printed a fingerprint to study the lines ;)

This is part of the map I used and mirrored