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QM 10-11-2015 11:14 PM

Dragonfly summer
 
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Sorry, the wings don't show up well in the photos. My doc asked for a dragonfly wall hanging. This has given me more trouble than quilts most do. The pattern is my own. I did this QAYG. The cattails are hand sewn, but after that, the scene was sewn by machine, through the whole quilt sandwich, wings last. I got a picture of a dragonfly from a coloring page website, but altered it somewhat.

OhCanada 10-11-2015 11:21 PM

Beautiful! Great design, love your saturated colors as well

Monale 10-12-2015 12:12 AM

Beautiful wall hanging! Love how you embroidered the wings of the dragon fly!

QuiltnNan 10-12-2015 03:36 AM

nicely done, great design

PaperPrincess 10-12-2015 04:29 AM

Love it!!! Real dragonflies have transparent wings, so you did very well!

Tartan 10-12-2015 04:36 AM

Very pretty!

cjackaitlin 10-12-2015 04:37 AM

Love it, like how the wings are transparent. Thanks for sharing.

ManiacQuilter2 10-12-2015 05:09 AM

This came out very beautiful. I am sure he will enjoy this quilt.

QM 10-12-2015 09:04 AM

Thank you. This quilt was a struggle, as I tried to match techniques to my mental images. The legs and the tops of the cattails are hand embroidered, but I used machine blanket stitch for the leaves and a straight metallic thread stitches for the wings. My DH insisted that I needed to add eyes, so they are hand embroidered with metallic machine thread. Now that I have the techniques figured out, DH wants something similar, but with a red dragonfly.

busy fingers 10-12-2015 12:02 PM

Very creative. I love those very "fine" wings.


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