March Wrap Up

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Possum Town Quilters

We had lots of inspiration at our recent meeting of our local quilt guild.

Judy and Lauren pieced this quilt top to be hand quilted in this next year for the Columbus Welcome Center.

Judy showed us her Bonnie Hunter’s “Easy Street” from last year’s mystery quilt.

Some of the ladies finished their “Silos” (and a dead tree) from the class I taught several weeks ago.

Barb’s “Airplanes” will make a great quilt for a flying enthusiast grandchild.

Tonya, our ‘over achiever’ finished her 2013 Block of the Month quilt.

Terri is about to finish this quilt for her nephew.

Patti made a small quilt to improve her hand quilting.

Silent Sentinel – Silo

And so, my silo quilt is all finished “as in done, finito, nothing more to add, ready to use/display/give away.” I was so glad for all the suggested names for my piece as all I could think of was ‘silo.’ How boring is that? And now I learned a new word, ‘sentinel’ meaning “a person or thing that watches or stands as if watching” from Dictionary.com. I had to keep pressing the button to listen to the correct pronunciation of the word. And now I’m afraid the dictionary man doesn’t have a Southern accent!  Anyway, here is my piece.

Silent Sentinel

$75.00 -- SOLD

It measures 8” X 10” and is fused and machine appliqued and quilted. I used an assortment of cotton fabric, tulle, and an assortment of cotton and polyester thread.

Detail

I finished it with “fast finished triangles” and it is ready to hang.

You can see my process for making this quilt by clicking HERE and HERE and HERE.

Silo Quilt Workshop

I had a fun day teaching these ladies how I make quilted fiber art from a photograph. I used my picture of a silo and showed them some of the techniques that I used HERE. Kerri sent me this picture of her finished piece yet last night. Job well done!

 

  

 

 

Two of the ladies opted to use their own images and made these pieces.

 

To see my finished quilt "Silent Sentinel" click HERE.

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Silo Quilt … Continued

My silo quilt is finished … all but the binding, label, and triangles on the back for mounting.

If only I wouldn’t have quilted that grass right through the base of the silo… it might look good from the wrong side!

Now, what would be a good name for it?

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Silo Quilt

I’m excited to be teaching a class on how I make an art quilt from a photo.

 

The sky is acting as my background and I fused the green bushes, pale grass, and road to it in that order. Then I layered the top, batting, and the backing and quilted the sky with fairly straight lines.

After quilting the green bushes with meandering circles and the grass with a straight stitch I am ready to iron my pre-made silo to the background.

Ready for detail on the silo.

Using a fine disappearing chalk marker I drew curved lines for the wire that goes around the silo and then quilted those lines with black thread.

Then I outlined the silo and chute with a triple straight stitch and added dark areas on the chute.

Finally I added the dead vines that had grown up the side, added more grass, and then quilted the road out front.

I thought maybe I could call it ‘done,’ and go ahead and square it up and bind it; but I’m thinking now that I really should add those 2 cedar trees before I call it finished. What do you think? This is a small piece, only 8”X10”.

 

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