Today I completed my second A4 Quilt top for our local quilt group challenge. The top quilt in the photo above was the inspiration and the bottom my interpretation of it. It couldn’t be more different, I tried to follow the lines of the quilt for the basis to it, not sure. Not sure I succeeded, it certainly changes the direction for the next quilter in line.
Linking with Nina’s ‘Off the wall Friday’
Enjoy your weekend.
Dianna
It’s the new year, so why not challenge myself to something I’ve never done before?
We were set a challenge at the local quilt group I attend, taking inspiration from a photograph or picture chosen by another member we had to create a quilt top, A4 size, to pass onto the next person, who then takes inspiration from only the quilt top previous in line, creating a ‘Chinese whisper’ effect when they create their own piece. Each member submitted their own picture, none of which we see apart from the one given to us at the start of this challenge. It’s going to be fun seeing how the theme developed at the end of six months. Looking for tips from Melody Johnson and her fibremania blog, this quilt top was totally constructed by fusing fabric, I added the stitching today. The process was exciting and something I will definitely try again.
Happy new year.
If you are looking for more inspiration head over to Nina’s Off The Wall Friday where I will be linking this post:)
Dianna
I made a new bag today, with some upholstery fabric, of which I have loads. The only other bags I’ve made using this fabric have been backpacks so it was really good to make something that was smaller and easily finished in half a day. I love the colours of this fabric, there is such a range to choose from. The chunkyness of it, although it frays easily and it takes a bit of steam and stitching to sit the seams flat, it does make up really beautifully.
I want to get making some more bags of different shapes and sizes over the next week or so for a possible business proposition….wish me luck:) More to be shared on that soon.
Thanks for coming over.
Dianna
I got a bit hooked on making these wonky oval shapes and now have four
They were fun to make, now I just need to figure out how to connect them and what to make…what do you think I should do?
Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your week:)
Linking with ‘Design Wall Monday’ with Judy @ Patchwork Times
Dianna
A walk round Gunnersbury Park
A look in Jean Wells Book
Photo Courtesy of Amazon.co.uk
and I’m inspired all over again.
Dianna
I finished of my little piece of fused ‘art collage’ it measures roughly 10″ by 12″. I really like the idea of mounting these pieces on small frames. So that’s what I did….
The interfacing I used was thicker than what Bethan Ash suggested – purely because I miss ordered some fleece fusible medium weight instead of interfacing. It was great to quilt, but tricky to get perfect corners around the frame.
Enjoy your weekend.
Linking with Nina @ Off the Wall Friday’s, do go and see what others are up to.
Dianna
I’ve been busy creating a small piece inspired by Bethan Ash’s book on Vibrant Quilt Collage.
It still needs a bit of work. I fused these scraps from past projects.
Bethan Ash suggests mounting these small pieces on a frame. I love this idea:)
Just need to add some more shapes, quilt it and find a frame.
‘Till then.
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Dianna
Quilting done…
I’ve been talking to my mum about how to finish my challenge quilt. One of the ways she suggested was to have no binding to distract from the quilt itself. It seems that quite a few art quilters are using a way of creating a borderless quilt. Mum suggested Judy Coates Perez, until now I had not heard of her, but do look at her blog and work it is stunning. I also found that Brenda Gael Smith has a tutorial on a faced quilt and Melody Johnson for a pillow slip method.
So I’ve got a bit to think about.
Hope you are all enjoying a good long weekend.
Dianna
Yes, there has been quite a bit of procrastinating the week. Taking my mind of the 150 years challenge quilt to do something quilty without the maths. I was doing a paper collage with my daughter and it reminded me of the Bethan Ash book I reviewed here and the american version of the same book many moons ago.
It got me thinking how fun it would be to do something entirely fused with lots of quilting.
Not sure this one works – but it was fun. Perhaps more cohesion and overlapping with the fabric would be more effective. This is a tiny 12″ by 12″ for practise and learning purposes.
Today I got busy with the back of the 150 years challenge quilt. It seemed a shame after many hours spent making up the numbers 15o, not to use at least one of them somewhere.
So I did…
for the back
Next up – basting and quilting.
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Thanks for reading:)
Dianna
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