A few thoughts on Joshua 3:16

I better start blogging again before I forget how to do it :)

First I will put up the next five verses I am planning of working on:

Joshua 3:16
That the waters which came down from above stood [and] rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that [is] beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea, failed, [and] were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.

Jdg 3:16

But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.

Rth 3:16

And when she came to her mother in law, she said, Who art thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her

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1Sa 3:16

Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here am I

 

2Sa 3:16

And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.

    I really would love to spend a lot of time on these! But there is a busy time ahead of me where other things have priority. Still hoping I will receive a few quiet days....
I have been thinking about the quilt about Joshua and here are some of my thoughts on paper...

 

There has to be water in it of course and a city and some people. Trying to get the composition right

And then the colour scheme...I dried some teabags and would like to include them. It think brown, blue and green go nicely together. But it's a bit dull...

I think this would be better, but I don't have enough green. Might do some fabric hunting to find the right green for the plains of Jericho.

For some reason I can't rotate an image after I have put it on the blog. Just tilt your head a bit to the right ;) This is the sketch I am going to work from.

 I know it's a bad time of the year starting, but I would like some continuation. So maybe I won't actually start working on it soon, but who knows I might find a few hours :)

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This is what I just read on someone's blog. Nothing to add...

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