On Sunday, I was in a day-long class sponsored by Darting Needles Quilt Guild in Appleton. With Aniko Feher's help and guidance, I got this far on "Nadiia."
This is Aniko's finished version of Nadiia. Beautiful! Be sure to check out her other quilts.
I still need to choose fabric for her hair, and a background, stich it all down, and quilt and finish it. I really like the eyes. Aniko showed us how to use water-color pencils to add highlights. Much easier than trying to do that with thread or applique.
On Monday, she taught a second day-long workshop on how to make your own patterns from photographs. Of course, now I wish I would have signed up for that one, too. I could have gotten a good start on a Maggie Portrait!
Aniko also sells coordinated fabric packs for portraits which helps take the guesswork out of the process. Now I'm interested again in dying skin tone gradations ...
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