Art Quilting Projects
"Branching Out" 23x36 Whole Cloth quilt, digitally
pieced and designed, machine felted with wool
roving and yarn, and free motion quilted.
If you look back in one of my earlier blog entries you'll find this piece of fabric I designed on the computer using Adobe Photoshop Elements and Corel Draw. I sent the file by email to "Fabric on Demand", an online custom printing on fabric company that I was really happy with their product and service. I finally got around to completing the quilt. I decided to felt the branch to give it more pizzas and texture and also did some free motion stitching on it as well as free motion quilted the entire piece. It has a hanging rod in the back and makes a very attractive wall hanging.
Love Bird 15x15 raw edge applique and free motion quilting
I did a sketch of our love bird several years ago and I came across it on the computer and decided to make an art quilt out of it. I made a line drawing to use for the pattern and cut out the individual pieces and free motion stitched them to a piece of muslin. Then I trimmed it out and started creating the background layout. I placed the bird on the black background and added the red triangles around the outer edges for accent and interest. I machine stitched all the pieces to the base fabric and then sandwiched it with batting and backing and freemotion quilted the whole piece. I finished the border with a new method I found on the internet. I didn't want to use a traditional binding so this method fit the bill. You cut about 1 1/4" strips of felt. I used black to tie in the black background square. The outer most edge was cut with pinking shears. This is cut off in my photo so you won't be able to see that edge. You line up a felt strips under each edge of the quilt and let about 3/8" of the pinked edge extend out beyond the edge of the quilt. Then you use one of your decorative edge stitches to sew the quilt to the felt edge. At the corner you can just overlap the two sides squarely or you can cut one of the edges at an angle so it looks mitered. This felt edge makes a very nice clean contemporary edge and will not ravel and needs no hand sewing. It is less bulky of an edge. I will probably use this method for most of my art quilts from now on.
The photo above was kind of hard to take because the background fabric has a lot of gold metallic in it and it reflects strangely in the photo. It's much prettier in person.
Felted landscapes about 8 1/2 x 11 each
These landscapes are intuitively done from my head. Mostly done like a sketch but with the felting machine and the sewing machine. They are mostly done with the felting machine using wool roving felted on to a base piece of craft felt. Then I free motion embroidery with my sewing machine all the flowers and other details after the large background shapes on felted. The top piece was sold during the "Art Studio Trek" tour I participate in every year.
Posted by lpcolor at 6/14/2010 2:26 PM 
Categories: Whole cloth quilting, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Corel Draw, Digital Piecing
Tags: Whole cloth quilting Adobe Photoshop Elements Corel Draw Digital Piecing
Categories: Whole cloth quilting, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Corel Draw, Digital Piecing
Tags: Whole cloth quilting Adobe Photoshop Elements Corel Draw Digital Piecing
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