Quilt

This is a small quilt of about 20 inches square. It started with a monoprint on a white coarsely woven fabric.

I layered painted cheesecloth and braid on it then stitched some of the spirals by hand with perle cotton. It still needed something, so I cut Ultrasuede spirals and applied then to the top.

It is so busy that It needed a simple border. It is machine quilted echoing the spirals in the center and having straight line quilting on the border.

Journal Quilt

Today is Journal quilt day for the challenge for www.3creativestudios.com   This was a piece of white satin that I used transfer paints on to create the leaves. With transfer paints, you use fabrics with a high percentage of polyester. I painted papers with the paints, let them dry then laid real leaves on the fabric to act as a resist. After placing the painted papers on top, I ironed the piece to transfer the colors.

It is machine embroidered to make the leaves stand out-it was a faint print. I used a Pigma pen to make dots along the edges and the veins to add dimension. It's edged by zigzagging a yarn to the edge.

I'm glad Hurricane Irene is past for our friends on the east coast and hope it isn't too long before things are better. Every place seems to have challenges weatherwise, but I don't think I'd like to be in a Hurricane.  We are pretty lucky here on the West Coast of the US.

Sketchbook

Each day I write down what I do fiberwise. It is a way to keep me working and really shows me if I accomplished anything. After I had completed this book with it's poor quality paper, I decided that I liked the covers on the book so well that I needed to do something with them. I took the wire binding off carefully and got rid of the cheap paper. It wasn't worth even using as background, text covered pieces. Next I cut plain and hand painted papers to size, punched the necessary holes and rebound the book using the Bind It All.

I love the cut out in the front cover showing the "centipede". I like bugs. They are so varied and interesting and sometimes have the most beautiful color schemes.

This is the only page spread I've managed to do this summer. It's mostly rubber stamps and stencils. I didn't realize how many bug related ones I had.

Quilt

My Art Quilt group meets here today, so it seemed appropriate to show a quilt. Also quicker, so I can get back to cleaning and getting ready.

I had made the violet and dark turquoise stripes into fabric years ago and decided that it was time to use it. The floral batik worked with it. I was going to add more, but the quilt didn't want it. We really don't have control, so it's better to give in to the quilt than to fight it trying to add something only to have to give in to it in the end.

Journal Quilt

This week's Journal Quilt for www.3creativestudios.com is done on a commercial white on white print that I painted over. It's a fun thing to do with surprises when you see what the print does. Next came more of those Ultrasuede spirals I cut years ago. I love using Ultrasuede for applique, as you don't have to turn under the edges which was a problem for me. They are machine stitched with metallic. The machine quilting is in a variegated rayon and echos the spirals. The edges are finished by zigzagging a yarn to them.

Quilt

This quilt was done by using masks. I started with a light blue painted fabric and cut freezer paper masks to iron on it. The circles are those dots that are stick on labels. The rings are page reinforcers used in notebooks.

After masking the piece, I used more paint on it. The outer border is a hand dye. The shapes are outlined in hand stitching with Perle Cotton and a matte silk.

Painted Threads

I started with the pink perle cotton, because I had a cone of it in machine knitting yarn. I added blues to get the blend using Colorhue. In later experiments, no matter what I colored it with, it came out in this blend. There must be a finish on the yarn, so I'll try something else to change it. I'm more likely to use the thread for stitching than knitting, so it would be nice to have a color range-only so much pink can be used.

Thanks for everyone comments. DH had cataract surgery this week, so I've been playing nurse. Men need more TLC,