Trial run with sundyes

Art Quilt Finale

An epic effort to finally finish this piece. Free motion quilting, hand dyed fabric, painted fabric, applique and some beading. I’ve added tabs so it can be either a lap quilt or a wall hanging

Just a little dying

Light coloured clothing just doesn’t work out in our lives, so this time I decided to colour them before hand. I used fabric paint and just squeezed it through the fabric. On the multicoloured one, I wet the fabric 1st so the colour would run better and just poured colours on in spots before squeezing it through.To finish off I added some stencils to the surface on the fronts

A little challenge

I saw this wall hanging in the latest Quilters companion magazine and just had to enlarge it and change it up a bit to make it into a small quilt.

I’m really pleased with how it is looking and I’m looking forward to finishing the embellishing.

I spent 7 hrs doing the free motion quilting, then painted it with shimmery fabric paint now I’m in the process of sewing down the appliques pieces

I’m back, family commitments have kept me busy for the last several weeks/months. I have started to catch up on projects that got left half done

 

 

 

I’ve been doing some free motion quilting classes, these are my play pieces. The last 2 pictures I have used fabric i hand dyed

My work of love, for the newest member of our family is complete…just awaiting his arrival now

My fingers were very happy to finish this off, 4 1/2 hrs of hand stitching and they were complaining a bit.

Playing with hand stitching

I’m not a fan of hand stitching but now and then I like to challenge myself to do something outside my comfort zone. This is english paper piecing. I’m making it up as I got and have decided it won’t be an overly large project or I know I will loose interest.

I made a start on my new project

I found the centre of my 6 metres of rope and marked that and then went out each side about 900mm and marked that. It’s hard to take photos when you are working in a window, LOL. I added elements like a string of LED lights then some buds and flowers. I found it best to untwist a place in the rope and feed it through.

I have an assortment of strips cut and added them for a way before I added lengths of lace and organza strips. This photo represents about 2 hours work, I will admit it takes quite a lot of time tying each strip.

Recycling, upcycling….this year I have promised myself that I will do something with all the bit and pieces I have kept That might be useful one day.

  My front window is 2100 wide x 1800mm tall. I’ve made several swags for christmas but this times I’m going for something feminine. These are a few of the bit and pieces I have collected together to make a start. I know from the past it can be a long process, but once I get the base elements on the fabrics and ribbon will go on quite easily. Something to do when watching a movie.

Finally got there with the quilts for twins

I’ve made these quilts using the same fabrics but they look so different just with cutting the stripped fabric piece differently