Wednesday's Wanderings #15 - Just Like Lisa

I want to make a confession.  I signed up to take Lisa Call's 3 day workshop for 2 reasons.  The first was to meet and get to know this amazing fiber artist whose career I have followed for several years.  The second reason was that

I WANTED TO MAKE A LISA CALL QUILT!!! 

Now when you take a workshop, the intended goal is to learn a technique and also to stretch and grow.  But I love Lisa's quilts so much, I just wanted to make a reasonable facsimile. 

So to celebrate my trip into Philly each day (chauffeured by my friend Terry) to learn from Lisa and admire her artistry and workmanship, I present my Wednesday's Wanderings, aka "Just Like Lisa":

I will post my quilt based on what I learned in the near future.

Steaming

Things have been quiet at this blog lately and may be for a bit longer.  I am working on another book.  It is so exciting and it is a very different topic than Quilt Fiesta.  In this book I will be sharing techniques that I have developed  and refined over the last 10 years.  Needless to say, I don't have much free time to do anything other than write and create.  But, I was reading a very interesting blog yesterday.  Lisa Call is a quilt artist  who has exhibited at the most prestigious quilt shows, including Quilt National.   I have admired her for years. Her quilts are very contemporary.  She is a prolific quilter AND works full time.  She brings her professional technical background to the creative part of her life.  The blog I was reading was about how she steams her heavily quilted pieces to flatten them before binding.

Tomorrow I am sending 2 of my quilts out to Colorado for the Denver National Quilt Festival.  One of my quilts, Filigree Fantasy has never been seen out in public before.  But I have been extremely worried, because I machine quilted it like crazy and the edges were wonky.  Take a look!

 I wasn't sure how it would hang at a show.  After reading Lisa's blog about binding a quilt, I decided to give it a try.  I got my squirt bottle and my steam irone and then I pressed and steamed and pressed and steamed.  And then I let it sit overnight.

And I was thrilled to see how flat it was.  Thanks Lisa for the giving me the courage.