Summer Song- my first art quilt
03-07-2015, 01:17 PM
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Thanks Yooper-we dont have your bad weather, here in ireland but everything is looking very washed out so I was visualising the joys of summer and all the lovely warm weather 
Sorry to hear your quilt retreat was cancelled-hopefully, weather will improve and they hold it soon xx
Sorry to hear your quilt retreat was cancelled-hopefully, weather will improve and they hold it soon xx
Originally Posted by Yooper32
What a beautiful fantasy quilt. I say fantasy because looking out my glass sliders, I see the latest "dump" and no way is spring coming here any time soon. My one and only first quilt retreat scheduled for this week-end was cancelled. I feel fortunate to have water and power, many thousands in this state have neither.
That aside, I am in awe of your art quilt.
That aside, I am in awe of your art quilt.
03-07-2015, 01:25 PM
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Hi Feline, thankyou so much, that is very kind of you.
Sure I dont mind at all OK here goes. I printed out an outline of a hummingbird onto fabric and pieced it onto the main part of the quilt and then I free motion quilted the bird with embroidery threads, and extended his wings with thread. I found some lovely fabric with text on and used that for the birds chest and lower wings. I covered the bird in organza and sewed around the bird outline and cut out the rest -this gave hime a shine and I hope blended all the processes together. The steampunk things are small watch parts, cogs and the like, really tiny, and I put them on the large butterfly for his eye markings and in the centre of the round part of the long wings inside the bead circles.
Hope thats OK
I wills ee if I can find a closeup of the bird-actually its on our patchwork magazine so I will see if I can upload it.
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Sure I dont mind at all OK here goes. I printed out an outline of a hummingbird onto fabric and pieced it onto the main part of the quilt and then I free motion quilted the bird with embroidery threads, and extended his wings with thread. I found some lovely fabric with text on and used that for the birds chest and lower wings. I covered the bird in organza and sewed around the bird outline and cut out the rest -this gave hime a shine and I hope blended all the processes together. The steampunk things are small watch parts, cogs and the like, really tiny, and I put them on the large butterfly for his eye markings and in the centre of the round part of the long wings inside the bead circles.
Hope thats OK
I wills ee if I can find a closeup of the bird-actually its on our patchwork magazine so I will see if I can upload it.[ATTACH=CONFIG]512837[/ATTACH]
Originally Posted by feline fanatic
This is fabulous!
I hope you will answer some questions, I always need to know the technical details.
Did you fabric paint the hummingbird? What medium did you use? (ie inktense pencils, fabric paint, dye, etc)
What are "steampunk parts"?
Can you post some closeups?
Thanks!
I hope you will answer some questions, I always need to know the technical details.
Did you fabric paint the hummingbird? What medium did you use? (ie inktense pencils, fabric paint, dye, etc)
What are "steampunk parts"?
Can you post some closeups?
Thanks!
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