EmiliasNana

Thanks for the detailed info. Very interesting fiber art. Love all the texture.

WisWis

Very interesting piece.

Watson

Really cool!

Watson

gramquilter2

Love this-great job.

QuiltnNan

nicely done

annette1952

It is awesome! I have never seen anything like it before. You are very talented & a great imagination. I don't hold those qualities. I usually have to see something first for ideas & inspiration.

rryder

Thanks Miriam, yes you iron it to set it which takes away the tacky feeling that oil pastels have and it makes it so they won't smear. What I do is lay a clean piece of printer paper over it and then use my iron on wool, silk or cotton setting. You will see some of the oil pastel stain the paper at which point you know it is set. I don't know if you can wash it as I've never done this technique with a quilt that was meant to be used for anything other than wall art.

People also do this kind of heat setting with Shiva Oil sticks (which are actually oil paint in stick form and are formulated differently than oil pastels) and I've seen reports where people say that setting those in this manner allows the quilt to be washed with no harm to the painted areas.

As a lover of vintage and antique machines, you may be interested to hear that I used my mid 70's Kenmore 158.1914 machine to do the rattail binding. It's the best machine I've ever found for doing that type of binding!

Rob

rryder

Thanks quiltingshorttimer. The quilt is currently on display at a local gallery, but I'm going over there on Friday evening for the opening of the show that it's in and I'll try to get a good closeup then.

In the meantime, if you have a track pad like the ones on some laptop computers, you may be able to expand the picture by placing your thumb and forefinger close together on the pad and then opening them out. That works on my machine and allows me to see close-ups of most of the pics posted here on QB. I'm not sure if that can be done with a machine that uses a mouse instead of the trackpad.



Rob