raksmum

They are just fantastic! You are an amazing quilter.

reneebobby

Nice thread painting I know that took along time to do. Great job.

sewnsewer2

Wow, awesome! Fantastic quilting job too!

MollieSue

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!!!!!!! :D :D :D
Is the flamingo and robin appliqued, or were they panels, or embroidery? I want the robin one!!!!!! My quilting looks totally primitive too, after seeing yours!!
You truly do such beautiful work!!!

AtHomeSewing

Wow!!! Totally gorgeous! :)

Ducky

Wow! Oh, I love your work! Very impressive, Maride!

Maride

Thank you!

The answer is no to all. They are not applique, panel or embroidery. I was reading about someone playing with paints, but making an abstract design to make a paint, and I used a similar technique. I painted the birds onto the glue side of Steam a Seam using watercolors and acrilic paint. This will never get washed, so I am not worried about that. When the paint was dried I ironed it onto Organza. Now I had the painted design on fabric and layered it on top of the regular 3 layers of your quilt with the paint facing towards the fabric and the organza protecting it. I used a pink fabric for the flamingo and blue for the bluebird, batting and backing. I then did some thread painting using embroidery floss to have enough colors available to do shadings. I am now working on a cardinal and a harvest scene. Will post when they are finished.

Thanks for all the encouraging comments,

Maria

mimee4

Great work.

paintedquilt

Stunning! :-o

brendadawg

All I can say is WOW!!!! They're beautiful.