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Old 04-28-2011, 07:08 AM
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They are all wonderful quilts. However, I particularly love the pink/white hand pieced/hand quilted quilt!
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Old 04-28-2011, 07:09 AM
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Originally Posted by k3n
Beautiful and interesting work as usual from your group Elle! Regarding the silk, I have used this in a landscape quilt posted here http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-75461-1.htm - you see it most clearly in the second picture. If you tease it out and lay it on greaseproof paper then spritz it with water, lay more paper over the top and press it with a dry iron, you get a filmy sheet of loveliness that can then be FMQd onto a fabric background. It wouldn't be washable obviously but it's fabulous for a wallhanging. The silk I used was hand dyed and I bought it in a little packet at the Festival of Quilts here in England last year. http://www.stef-francis.co.uk/fibres...rowsters-waste this was the supplier.
Kathryn, thanks for the link, hadnīt realised you had used it, does look lovely, kind of misty
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wow, is she going to weave that silk now????
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Thanks so much sharing all those lovely projects! I loved the colorful one you have laying over the table- what is that called? And the pink hand quilted one is wonderful,actually all of them are~.
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Old 04-28-2011, 08:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Butterflyspain
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Beautiful and interesting work as usual from your group Elle! Regarding the silk, I have used this in a landscape quilt posted here http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-75461-1.htm - you see it most clearly in the second picture. If you tease it out and lay it on greaseproof paper then spritz it with water, lay more paper over the top and press it with a dry iron, you get a filmy sheet of loveliness that can then be FMQd onto a fabric background. It wouldn't be washable obviously but it's fabulous for a wallhanging. The silk I used was hand dyed and I bought it in a little packet at the Festival of Quilts here in England last year. http://www.stef-francis.co.uk/fibres...rowsters-waste this was the supplier.
Kathryn, thanks for the link, hadnīt realised you had used it, does look lovely, kind of misty
It's so pretty in the flesh - kind of strokeable! And it's like alchemy how it goes when you wet it - like lead into gold! :-D
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Old 04-28-2011, 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by lynnie
wow, is she going to weave that silk now????
I donīt think she is doing any weaving, from what I understand she opens them out and wets them, they flatten out and she dyes them. I will ask more about what her plans are as you have all shown so much interest in this project.
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Your quilts are absolutely gorgeous. I love them all.
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Old 05-06-2011, 09:23 AM
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Here is a flower made from those silk cacoon, she did this sometime ago and I forgot I had this picture

Flower made from Raw Silk
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Those are absolutely beautiful! I have some cacoons around here someplace, but I doubt that anything I make could be as beautiful as those!
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Elle
Thanks so much for
sharing all these wounderful pics with us
from your side of the world :)
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