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Original Photo-beaded necklaces from Mexico

Month 1-applique, scrim, buttons, foil, couched threads, hand stitching

Month 2-knit wire, organza flowers, beads, buttons, wire lace, couched cording

Month 3-organza shapes, lutradur, beads, stitched disolvable stabilize, thread w

Month 4-beads, stitched disolvable stabilizer, lutradur, lace, painted fibres

Month 5-text on printer sheets, metallic thread, paint,organza

Month 6-silk fusion, applique, satin stitch, beads

Month 7-cut back applique, couched threads, painted fibres,threadwork

Month 8-painted fibres, lutradur, couched threads, beads, metallic thread

Month 9-painted fibres, free motion stitching, pieced quilting, applique

Month 10-painted fibres, strip pieced quilting

Month 11-painted fibres, strip pieced quilting

Month 12-painted fibres, metal shim, lutradur, free motion stitching, applique

Month 13-painted fibres, hand stitching, french knot button, machine stitching

Our fibre art group started a challege last summer which we hope you will enjoy. The challenge was to create a small 2 dimensional wall hanging no larger than 8 1/2 X 11" The rules were simple:

Making of an Art Quilt - part 1

Angelina fibres fused into a sheet, then fused to misty fuse

Applique shapes cut out of angelina/misty fuse sheet

Piece of netting fused to angelina/misty fuse sheet

The images shown over this and the following blog entry will detail the steps taken in creating our mixed media art quilt shown at left.

A background fabric was selected ( a bali in this case) and a medium weight fusible stabilizer ironed to the back (we used fuse a shade)

The pieced circular shapes were sewn using a paper pieced New York Beauty pattern. An assortment of cotton, polyester and nylon fabrics were used to create the concentric pieced circles. Place in corner of background fabric, baste in place and trim edges.

Making of an Art Quilt - part 2

Additional spiral applique shapes fused to background

use of a glue stick to hold collage pieces in place

Circlular motif repeated on the stitched evolon, glass beads

Angelina applique shapes, foil glue and foil

Since the base fabric was not exactly what she wanted, Susan cut additonal pieces of the spiral image from the left over base fabric. These were fused onto the base fabric to mask some of the floral images on the original print.

A piece of copper knit was pinned and then stitched into the desired position on the art quilt.

Vancouver Island and Salt Spring Island Shop Hop

Granny's Flower Garden - Stitches version of shop hop quilt

detail of quilt, pieced border, free motion stitching with varigated cotton thre

4th Annual Shop Hop - June 20-25

Sponsored by 13 participating quilt shops on Vancouver Island and Salt Spring Island

• Receive stamps for each shop visit
• Enjoy in store specials and promotions
• Each shop will provide .15m of a floral fabric along with an inspirational idea for the block assembly. Choose your own background and finishing fabrics
• Free Granny’s flower Garden block directions*

Buttonhole Quilt

One of our favorite patterns, the Buttonhole quilt sews up quickly and accurately. The first images is a quilt sewn with two bundles of fat 1/4s (14 pieces each) which easily completed the quilt top. One bundle for the back of fat 1/4's was used for the quilt back (an additional 2 meters of fabric is required for the border and binding)

Quilting - Line + Color

Kona solids, prints from Riverwoods collection

We love this new book by Yoshi Jinzenji where you can discover the elegant simplicity of contemporary quilting. This internationally known weaver, dyer, fabric artist, teacher, and quilter explores shape, color, stitching, and fabric in more than 30 gorgeous projects including bed-sized quilts, bags and pillows. She uses white or very light neutrals as her backgrounds and sheer fabrics to add dimension to many of the quilts described in the book. Her use of graphic designs is inspiring.

Jelly Rolls - quilting with theme prints

Jelly Rolly by Kaufman called Eerie Alley

strips from the strata randomly sewn, off set seams

Appropriately named for October, we selected this roll from Robert Kaufman named Eerie Alley. We used the entire collection for this cute quilt ( 5 of the most obvious themed prints were set aside for the binding) We wanted to keep the quilt gender neutral, so additional strips of solid Kona Cotton were included into the two stratas we made. We included lime green, royal blue, orange, bright yellow , pink and lavender solids. Alternatively, you could use 1/2 of the Kona Cotton jelly roll by selecting the brightest valued strips.

Quilting with Jelly Rolls

Jelly Rolls by moda - Basic Grey. Our sample used two of these lovely rolls to create this 62" X 66" quilt. Wendy stitched the stripes of each roll into two different stratas. She randomly selected the fabrics for each strata, using all of the strips available to create two strata pieces. It is important to make them the same size ( ie the same number of strips) .

Winter in the Twilight Zone

detail image - decorative stitching,beads & paintstiks

This great wallhanging can be made into any width or height, by simply making the fabric strips wider or longer. We cut ours 44" long (selvage to selvage) and 12" wide. The assembly of this quilt is simple: lay two fabrics lenghtwise, so they overlap by approximately 3-4" Then cut a gentle wavy edge, cutting through both fabrics at the same time. These are then sewn together with a 1/4' seam. Full directions for this technique are found in the pattern.

Sewing with Jelly Rolls

Its a Wrap and Its a Wrap II have some great projects for fabric covered clothesline. Using pre cuts strips of fabric (or cutting your own) The fabric strip is wrapped around the clothesline and then stitched into bags or 3 dimensional vessels. The first bag sample shown left, is taken from the second book in this series by Susan Breire. We used a package of pre-cut jelly rolls (bali collection called lemon grass) and 1/2 clothesline package. This technique uses a traditional basketry technique, wrapping the fabric around the cording as you work.

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