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Here is the newest “quilt square”. It’s oak, walnut, cedar and pine. A friend dropped off a pile of rough cut walnut planks about 3 weeks ago. These in were the first hardwood pieces I have run through my surface planer. I have always loved walnut. I dyed the pine a bluish color for a change from natural.  I got to try out my new doweling jig.  Vey cool.

This is the fourth in the Steel Quilt Square series. Due to its construction and design, it should probably be either the first or the last in the series. Is it unassembled or disassembled? Is it Alpha or Omega? This is the sort of talk you might hear from an art critic, not the artist. Blah, blah, blah. I just thought it was interesting to see the individual elements that make up the other steel quilt squares separately but still associated to each other.

This is a continuation of the Steel Quilt Square Series. It is welded stainless steel floated in a baltic plywood frame. This is riff on the stainless steel clock that sold at the Haywood County Arts Council Artist Member Show. Stainless steel is an interesting material. It is quite hard compared to mild steel. It is harder to cut and harder to weld, but worth it. The quality of the surface is fantastic. Floating it in the plywood frame makes for a more dramatic look.

This is the next in the Steel Quilt Square series. The frame is in the Mission Style. The steel quilt square is rusted roofing with copper rivets. I increased the number of copper rivets in this one to mimic stitching. These rivets are incredibly small. The are 1/8 inch long and the shaft of the rivet is 5/64 of an inch in diameter. Like I said, way small. There is seeded glass in the bottom of the frame.

I am doing a series of Steel Quilt Squares.  This is the newest in the series.  I was again told that I must name it, not number it.  So here goes.  Trapezium Steel Quilt Square.  The Trapezium  refers to the frame.  Because, well, its a trapezium.  As in: Trapezium, describing a geometric shape, has two contradictory meanings: Outside the US and Canada: a quadrilateral with at least one pair of parallel sides (known in the US as a trapezoid) In the US and Canada: a quadrilateral with no parallel sides (known elsewhere as a general irregular quadrilateral).  Just for those of you who (whom?) are confused by this definition, as am I, I reside in the US, therefore the second definition applies.  More steel quilt squares to come.

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I finally got around to taking a better picture of Steeling Time.

I did a stitched steel clock last year.  I did a woven steel clock this year.  I thought, what the hell, why not a steel quilt square?  These haven’t been stitched welded yet, just dry fit if you will.  So far…

Here is the newest.  It a woven steel grandfather clock.  I cut out a crazy quilt pattern in stainless steel that I was going to stitch together for a clock face.  Then I cut out 1 inch strips of stainless steel to try weaving them.  Great idea, but stainless steel is way hard and stiff.  No weaving.  Next I tried old rusted steel roofing.  Now that is flexible enough to weave.  Then I added 4 handmade copper rivets at the 12, 3, 6, and 9 positions. (Long story about Medicare annual checkup with cognitive test using clock face.  I’ll spare you the details)  I built a Japanese/Mission style clock to hold it.  Then I pre-assembled it on my work table.  I climbed up on a chair (Don’t do this at home) to look at it and photograph it, it was of course fore-shortened.  The sides were wider at the bottom.  Wow.  Epiphany!!  So I built it that way.

Forgive me viewers it has been over two months since my last post.  I have made a small wall clock of stacked stainless steel and baltic plywood, but haven’t been able to get a good picture of it.  Hope to do that in the next week.  Here is the best one I have at present.  The black across the back at the top is a shadow.

I wanted to build a side table to go next to my favorite reading chair. While I was looking at various sites Youtube, I ran across one on DIY Huntress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf9wemZo1IU . Wow! I made a few modifications to fit my needs and presto, one African Mud Cloth inspired side table.

I also made a stool, and 2 trivets with a mud cloth inspired designs.  It was great fun carving the designs and using aniline dye to color everything.  Piles of sawdust.