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Make Laura's wholecloth jacket pattern in woven cloth or reverse-appliqued felt, both will follow the same tutorial, just have a different design scale. To do the applique, quilt both layers as rectangles, cut away one layer. Start with a Laura Lee Fritz jacket pattern file, quilt onto your flat fabric, either wholecloth single layer, "sandwich", or patchwork sandwich.  See the "wings" on the back shoulder blades? they drape quickly to fit the body, but the more body you quilt into the project (heavier batting, more seams in your patchwork), the longer these take to soften to mold to you. Cut, but...

I just returned from a spectacular trip to Alaska.  No, not a cruise, I flew to Anchorage, drove up to a sheep farm clinging to the mountain bluff above Wasilla, photographed wildlife in tamer settings, including this polar bear in the Anchorage Zoo. I am already cutting rubber printing plates of the set of seven photos of the bears, all swimming underwater.  These will be available soon as recorded ie Extreme Digital images, I will be recording them this week.  Meanwhile, here's the first printing plate, I'm already printing fabric from it, and the photo I took as my model....

Here is one of a series of bird patterns I have drawn and recorded.  As you see I am already starting to put this pattern to work for me.  You are looking at a hemp canvas bag, quilted twice on the plain fabric, the back and wraparound sides are the same canvas, ice-dyed with, let me remember what I used...kilt green. The ice-dyeing releases the different color powders of a dye recipe at differing rates, depending on 1. proximity to the meltwater and 2. density of the dye powder particle.  Some particles are dense, some fluffy.  Then the dissolved dye...

We are often asked to line up quilt tops to the patchwork on a quilt back.  I thought to share this tip when I answered a query on Facebook today.  It was too good to not pass along further. In addition to the side to side alignment, you can do one more step to improve alignment. If you have seam junctions or other requested features to match front to back, use long pins to stick up through to the top, from under the quilt as it is pinned up to your rollers, then replace the pins sticking up with pins...