"Iris Fields Forever"
"Iris Fields Forever" 22"x17"
This is an art quilt I just finished using Rose Hughes method of "Fast Piece Applique". With her method you can easily piece together curves and shapes of any sort quickly and smoothly. After the entire quilt top was pieced I couched various yarns over the seams by machine. On the gold colored part of the iris I satin stitched around the petals by machine. Then on the gold petals I used some stenciling paint and gave the petals some shading and finally painted another layer of glitter paint on all of the flower to give it some shimmer. The edge was finished by trimming the quilt squarely and attaching a purple cording with a decorative stitch. I made the pattern for this quilt by using a photograph I took of one of my irises. I traced the iris photo in Corel Painter and then freely added the landscape in the background. I changed the colors of the iris to match the printed fat-quarter that I had.
"What came first the duck or the egg?" 8.5x11 felted fiber art
This is a piece of fiber art that was felted on my embellisher machine. I did a grab bag thing and pulled out the aqua colored velour terry type fabric, cut it in to strips with pinking shears and felted it to a piece of black craft felt and then turned it over and felted the black back thru to the front creating the black stripped effect. I decided to make sort of a framed look out of it by not filling in the middle area and dropped in a scrap of felting that I had done as just a practice piece a while back. I placed a little batting under the felted egg are and gave it some 3D effect then felted it to the black area just around the edge. I then layed some raw silk yarn around the border frame and covered it with some aqua organza and felted all the layers around the border together. I did some zig-zag stitching around the edges. I'm still contemplating whether to felt or couch some type of fiber around the inner edge of the aqua frame to cover up the raw edge or to leave it alone. What are your suggestions? Check back next week to see what I decided to do.
Posted by lpcolor at 6/28/2010 12:13 PM 
Categories: couching, Art Quilt, glitter paint, Satin Stitching, Applique
Tags: couching Art Quilt glitter paint Satin Stitching Applique
Categories: couching, Art Quilt, glitter paint, Satin Stitching, Applique
Tags: couching Art Quilt glitter paint Satin Stitching Applique
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