I love Diana Gabadon's Outlander book series. I also like the cover art for the books. So I am attempting to do a series of small quilts (8 inches square) based on the covers. The quilts will all have dupioni silk as the background. I had some trouble with the first one. I hand embroidered using metallic thread the Celtic frame. Then the piece did not lay flat. I soaked the whole thing, and it got a little flatter. Then I remembered Jude Hill's kantha stitching, so I used a matching thread in the middle and stitched many rows across, which worked. I used a gold machine quilting thread to quilt the background. I don't know if you can see the little sparkles in the background. It was hard to do, but I like the result.
Very nice art quilts, Ro! Great meeting you today at the recycled class. Linda. HomeForGood.Net
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed looking at your blog. It was fun at the recycled class--don't know what I'll do with the ideas from the class, but I did visit Goodwill on the way home and bought 4 shirts.
ReplyDeleteI have posted some of the work I have been doing in my latest Pamela Allen class, if you care to look. Rosemary