Art quilt
 

Hey all, Here's my most recent finish. It's about 30" x 38". It's part of a series that uses a number of mixed media techniques and materials. Thanks for looking,

Rob

Really nice! What method did you use? Hard to tell from the picture?

Watson

wow very nice!!!

Thanks Watson, the colorful part is a piece of Lutradur (a thick nonwoven fabric, sort of like Pelion, but smoother and more translucent). I used cardboard to which I glued beads and miscellaneous things I had sitting around the studio to make rubbing plates and used oil pastel to take the rubbings. The oil pastel was heat set and then I added fabric paints, Angelina fibers and Angelina sheets. Once that was done I couched some things to the surface and then played with the decorative stitches on one of my sewing machines.

To finish it I quilted the black background and then appliquéd the central piece to that and finished up with some Fmq in the central piece. I bound it using rat tail cording which is zigzagged around the edge.

Rob

Thanks Tartan and Quiltnmo.

really like this but want a close up picture!

I really studied this one. Very interesting.

I didn't know you could iron oil chalk and set it. Will it wash out? I like your piece. I keep trying to see if there is an image in there but I don't - just almost see a running horse - maybe moving through too fast to get a good image. I love the randomness and the color. The stitching looks great. I must have taken a lot of time to make.

This is precisely why you have to SAVE all your scraps! Well done!

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

Very interesting piece.

Really cool!

Watson

Love this-great job.

nicely done

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.

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

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