Joyce’s Quilting Quandary

I had a couple of days emergency teaching this week, so I have based the block around two elements of that, firstly the variety of names of t  he students – which seem to be getting stranger and more unusual – and secondly the names of some of the teachers with whom I had worked. The emergency teaching gives me some pocket money and the chance to catch up with these friends with whom I had worked with for a long time. I used a black fabric with swirls for the background and then used machine embroidery in a variety of grey threads for the girls names and a red variagated thread for  teachers’ names.  I used red organza for the corner. I used a clear monofilamnet yarn for the quilting. This works well despite looking like very thin fishing line on the reel. As is quite common when I am lettering, the spelling went a little strange!!

We have a delightful Japanese teacher, Azusa staying with us. She is a teacher at Obayashi Sacred Heart School, which is the Japanese school with whom Loreto has a sister school arrangement . The arrangement started 10 years ago and Azusa was a Year 10 student in the first group of students to come to come to Australia. She is now a teacher at the school.  It is busy with her here, but it is great to take her around. I asked her to write her names in characters. It is much simpler than Momi’s! I chose a grey background as a bit of a change. I stitched the letters with black thread. Bllack bias tape would have worked well as well. I outlined the letters with a row of deep red stitching to bring them out a little more.  Did a red “32″ in the red corner. I stared quilting in a darker grey but that was too much, so started again in a lighter grey, which worked much better.