I have delivered one of my finished quilts to its new owner, so I can now show it off to you! My friend
Karen commissioned me to make her an art quilt for her living room. She wanted it to feel like the color of cranberry. First off I had to go shopping. While in California earlier this year I was able to find some wonderful batiks in cranberry. I then had the idea to have my friend
Lisa cut Maple leaves for me using her silhouette machine. You can read about how that worked on
this post . Since I had moved on to another project, this hibernated for a while. I wasn't exactly sure where I was going with my Maple leaf idea.
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| Auditioning fabrics |
So for the background I was going to sew some half and half blocks, with curves. Note the 4 blocks in the upper right hand corner. Yeah, that wasn't doing it for me. So I decided if I had leaves, I would need a tree trunk. I put up chunks of fabric for the tree trunk and the background.
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| Background is all pieced! |
Several of the fabrics did not make it into the quilt. I also thought I would need some branches. Some are sewn in, others are on top.
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| Quilted |
I machine quilted the background. Mostly with the walking foot, some with free motion quilting.
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| The quilting on the back. |
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| Close up of the quilting |
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| Trimmed |
I then placed the leaves all over the quilt. I left it on the wall for a couple of days to cure. I did move some of the leaves a little bit. Then fused them down and free motion quilted veins in all of the leaves. With so many of the leaves floating off by themselves, it took an hour to tuck in all the threads. I am a tucker. I feel that it looks better that way.
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| Finished! |
I am pleased with the finished quilt. Karen loved it! That was the most important part!
Great job! Congratulations on getting it done!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful wall quilt, Sylvia. Thank you for sharing your development process.
ReplyDeleteNice to read about the proces, it is gorgeous!!!!
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