Storm at Sea Doodle Quilt
07-01-2021, 12:07 PM
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It started out as a thread doodle. I sandwiched two pieces of an old white sheet and sat down at my machine and started fmq doodle quilting using a black thread. Once I had all the organic shapes around the border, I decided that it reminded me of those antique maps that show oceans filled with sea monsters, etc. So of course, it had to have a Storm at Sea focus for the central portion. I quilted that with my straight ruler. Then I used Inktense pencils and fabric medium to color all the organic shapes- that took forever. I used dye and salt to paint the storm at sea section because I wanted to get a sparkly watery effect that salt sprinkled on wet dyed fabric will produce. Once the coloring was done I decided that it needed an outer border that tied in to the storm at sea sections so I added that border and quilted it. I also added another backing fabric because the inktense pencils had bled through and made a mess of the white back. Since I'd added another backing fabric, I decided it needed to be re-quilted. While re-quilting it, I used the opportunity to thicken some of the thread lines (like thread painting) in order to give more depth to the piece- particularly around the edge where the organic shapes overlap the Storm at Sea center. Then I decided that it needed something more, so I used Jaquard Lumiere paints in the outer border and also in a couple of places in the center to provide some opaque contrast with the more transparent colors in the rest of the quilt. I bound it using a batik that was in my stash.
All in all it took several months over a period of a couple of years to get it finished, but it was a lot of fun to do.
Rob
It started out as a thread doodle. I sandwiched two pieces of an old white sheet and sat down at my machine and started fmq doodle quilting using a black thread. Once I had all the organic shapes around the border, I decided that it reminded me of those antique maps that show oceans filled with sea monsters, etc. So of course, it had to have a Storm at Sea focus for the central portion. I quilted that with my straight ruler. Then I used Inktense pencils and fabric medium to color all the organic shapes- that took forever. I used dye and salt to paint the storm at sea section because I wanted to get a sparkly watery effect that salt sprinkled on wet dyed fabric will produce. Once the coloring was done I decided that it needed an outer border that tied in to the storm at sea sections so I added that border and quilted it. I also added another backing fabric because the inktense pencils had bled through and made a mess of the white back. Since I'd added another backing fabric, I decided it needed to be re-quilted. While re-quilting it, I used the opportunity to thicken some of the thread lines (like thread painting) in order to give more depth to the piece- particularly around the edge where the organic shapes overlap the Storm at Sea center. Then I decided that it needed something more, so I used Jaquard Lumiere paints in the outer border and also in a couple of places in the center to provide some opaque contrast with the more transparent colors in the rest of the quilt. I bound it using a batik that was in my stash.
All in all it took several months over a period of a couple of years to get it finished, but it was a lot of fun to do.
Rob
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