I don't know about you, but I tend to get these 'great' quilting ideas, just as I am about to fall asleep. So of course, it somehow materializes in my dreams. A couple of weeks ago, you saw the circular sketch I posted and how I wanted to turn that into for my next project. Well, it showed up in my dream as a brightly colored quilt on a dark background, in varying sizes. Well of course, I woke up thinking, well I know what I am going to do for the next FANE (FiberArts North East) challange!
Well that piece has gone under some metamorphosis, not because I didn't like the design of the circle, but because I couldn't get it into my Silhouette Cameo cutter clean enough to make clean cuts. Next I tired creating one large piece with many circles connected, all at the same size, but there were two problems that I bumped into that quickly changed my mind. First all the circles the same size was boring, and second, at 3" in diameter, the detail was way too small to show like I wanted it to. So instead, I started recreating my sketch at almost the same level of detail in the Cameo software itself. Nope, still too small, but the good thing when working digitally you can stretch the object to any size you want. So I spend hours creating these different circular designs, only to realize, that most of the detail was going to be too small to cut and even more so, to show the see through effect I was going for.... so after about another 15 hours or so of playing around in the software, I did a test cut on paper.
Ughhh, while most will work out nicely, some areas are still way too small. Here's to hoping I can enlarge them quickly without loosing the integrity of the piece. I already know that one part won't work at the size I have, because the paper ripped right up when I tried to remove it from the cameo mat... the pieces were just too thinly cut!
Oh well... I see more hours at the computer in my horizion.. But not tonight... Sweet dreams everyone!
Renee
Well that piece has gone under some metamorphosis, not because I didn't like the design of the circle, but because I couldn't get it into my Silhouette Cameo cutter clean enough to make clean cuts. Next I tired creating one large piece with many circles connected, all at the same size, but there were two problems that I bumped into that quickly changed my mind. First all the circles the same size was boring, and second, at 3" in diameter, the detail was way too small to show like I wanted it to. So instead, I started recreating my sketch at almost the same level of detail in the Cameo software itself. Nope, still too small, but the good thing when working digitally you can stretch the object to any size you want. So I spend hours creating these different circular designs, only to realize, that most of the detail was going to be too small to cut and even more so, to show the see through effect I was going for.... so after about another 15 hours or so of playing around in the software, I did a test cut on paper.
Ughhh, while most will work out nicely, some areas are still way too small. Here's to hoping I can enlarge them quickly without loosing the integrity of the piece. I already know that one part won't work at the size I have, because the paper ripped right up when I tried to remove it from the cameo mat... the pieces were just too thinly cut!
Oh well... I see more hours at the computer in my horizion.. But not tonight... Sweet dreams everyone!
Renee
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