If you're a quilter, you head into the sewing studio and start sewing. After lunch on the Saturday after I came back from my trip to Maryland, I went into the sewing room, and started making the letters for The Rules. I stopped to eat dinner, so I worked about 10 hours.
I made 18 letters before taking this picture and going to bed. As soon as I made a letter, I added a piece of the yellow background to the right hand side (this makes joining the letters together into rows easier), and set it down on the floor of my sewing room.I have learned (the hard way, believe me) not to trim the letters to size until I start sewing them together into words or rows, so these letters are a bit ragged.
Whenever I make letters, I always start with the first letter and work my way through. I never think, "I have to make four "E's", three "O's", three "S's"..." and make them that way. I want each word to "read" as whatever word I am making, so the letters making up that word had to be related somehow, like "THE" and "ALL." I also knew that each letter would be made out of the same fabric (at least until I got to "FUN.")
The "font" I created for these letters are anything but truly wonky. They were much more time-consuming to make. Usually I can make about five letters in an hour, these took about 15 - 25 minutes each. The negative spaces finish out at 1/2" by 2" (the hole in the "O"), and that half-inch was critical to the look I was after.
The letters were coming along beautifully, and I was very excited.
2 comments:
These letters are wonderful. I love the font. I often put a background strip on the top and bottom as well when I am building my letters. Then it is easier to assemble them when they are of different heights.
I love "The Rules". Thanks for explaining more about your process. I'm intrigued by your letters and sayings, but hadn't the first clue where to start. I love the look!
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