Showing posts with label photo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photo. Show all posts

Thursday, October 04, 2018

Preparing Supper for Sheila

From an old photo of my Mother peeling potatoes while my next younger sister Sheila watches with her dolly ...

... I tweaked it with a photo filter and printed it on fabric and ...

... and quilted it for a piece of fiber art. Sheila is delighted!
Preparing Supper -- 8"X11"

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Silo Quilt

I’m excited to be teaching a class on how I make an art quilt from a photo.
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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.
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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.
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Ready for detail on the silo.
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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.
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Then I outlined the silo and chute with a triple straight stitch and added dark areas on the chute.
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Finally I added the dead vines that had grown up the side, added more grass, and then quilted the road out front.
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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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