Courtesy of mouse. What an inventive idea!

So interesting. Pattern???

CQQL!!
Is that from used coffee filters?

Wow. such vision, and recycling to boot, I saw a video a while back, in which a quilt 'artist' was literally ripping pieces out of a magazine and stitching it into a wall hanging, using free motion embroidery - I can't remember the site...but it was very inspirational!!! :D

That's proof that someone's trash is someone else's art treasure!

Are those used coffee filters?? :shock:

I downloaded and looked closely and they used metalic thread to quilt them down.

It's a beautiful piece of work and very, very clever.

WOW! My question is - When will you be doing on line lessons? Where did the idea come from? Guess that makes it my questions are..........
You and Mouse could do a training - right?
LOVE IT!

LOVE IT :D :D AWESOME :D :D SO CREATIVE :D :D I agree, when is the class???? :D :D

That is too cute!
Pattern please??

This was a quilt submitted to the Mid=Atlantic Quilt Festival in
Hampton, VA in Feb. of this year. I took pics of this because
the person who made it, indeed made it out of used coffee filters.
It was quilted with gold metalic thread and quite glittered in the
light. It was stitched to a black background which was quilted in
waves as thou the fish was swimming. It was totally awesome.
I can't post so I send the pics to Moonpi who was very gracious
and posted them for me. I'm glad everyone enjoyed them.
Thanks again to Moonpi
Mouse >^,,^<

This was a quilt submitted to the Mid=Atlantic Quilt Festival in
Hampton, VA in Feb. of this year. I took pics of this because
the person who made it, indeed made it out of used coffee filters.
It was quilted with gold metalic thread and quite glittered in the
light. It was stitched to a black background which was quilted in
waves as thou the fish was swimming. It was totally awesome.
I can't post so I send the pics to Moonpi who was very gracious
and posted them for me. I'm glad everyone enjoyed them.
Thanks again to Moonpi
Mouse >^,,^<

I like it! What a clever thing to do to recycle!

M

Well...
Can we get a pattern and technique from the artist perhaps?
K

wont it go mouldy? and it cant be washed? it must smell, maybe im crazy??? It does look neat though

Incredible!

very creative..and doubly useful you can get up in the morning to the smell of coffee!

Now it has sort of got me thinking....you could try using food dyes, or fabrics dyes in fact anything, to make lots of different colours....now imagine what you could do with that!! Flowers, fish, geometrics wow!! Think I will head off down to the store to get some more filter papers....tee hee!!!!

This is neat! How in the world did you do it? Pattern? Wish I was tha inventive. Just goes to show that you can quilt almost anything.

I keep coming back to look at this, it always amazes me and leaves me smiling when I see someone take something so ordinarily thrown away and make a piece of art out of it :D :D :D

hi

what a cool idea.

so creative.

Now, THAT'S ingenious!

I seriously doubt she used Used coffee filter......new, clean, fresh ones. the quilt is awesome...great piece of art

Why not use the used ones? If you let them dry initially and then rinse them and dry them again they should be fine. The creative soul in me sees the possibilities. And if you used some food color dye as someone suggested or fabric dye even during the second drying phase this could get really really interesting! =) As far as washing it..I would say no. Its obvious to me that its an art piece. I would love to see it in person to awe over it and look at its every detail. =)

Most original - I really like it.
Cleodaisy

Thank you for sharing this delight.

I see this was originally posted in May of '08. Has anyone tried this. Can you tell me if there are more pictures on the Board? This is so lovely, I have got to give it a try!

Mouse, Absolutely gorgeous!!!!! Clever...I hope she got a ribbon. You deserve a ribbon as well Mouse.

Miss Treated, I do my part to recycle....why, I been using this same age for years. LOL

Bettia

Some one on here earlier asked if others (like her) go away from quilt shows frustrated and not wanting to sew anything. This very thing is why alot of us go. To see the things people think up is amazing. You see a project and it gets your mind wondering like the ones posting here now. You start thinking of all the ways you could use this idea and expand on it; like the food coloring or dyes idea; that would be great. I love seeing what others come up with and they show us there are plenty of non-conventional ways to make quilts. This is a great quilt.

What an amazing idea she had!

How cool!!!

It sure is axgreat recycle project!

that sure is different! its very realistic! i think me likes it! :))

That is sooooo cool!!! Looks like a crappie

I use a fabric filter for my daily coffee, and after many uses it has turned a very dark brown. I usually wash it by hand, but I do run it through the washing machine in a little lingerie bag from time to time. I guess the point I am trying to make is that paper filters are very strong too, and could probably be washed and still keep the coffee stained look. Some people had mentioned the issues of smell, mildew, etc. I don't think that would be a problem if the paper filters are washed first.

amazing upcycling