my creative week... a start and a finish with some paint and beading!

 

14" X 14"

This is my offering for the challenge Project Quilting. We are given a prompt, this time "PINK" and given one week to make a quilt. (apologies for my poor photography skills this is very even and flat)

the idea started with a painting. It's textile paints on white muslin, some floral stencils over the petals, dashes of glittery shimmery paint come together to resemble a pink flower. A hibiscus in my mind. But how to turn this into a quilt.... 

after auditioning ways to set it, I decided that it's a piece of art, so I'll "mat" it with very sparkly white fabric, back it with lovely pink vintage fabric, and use peltex stabilizer then quilt lots of lines of lots of threads. 

Here I am showing you one way I organize a project for quilting. I use a drawer divider to keep stuff near but contained. Mylar and metallic thread, cotton hand dyed threads, different machine feet like walking foot, free motion foot, and quarter inch. Beads in both bugle bead shape, seed beads, rocaille beads. 

tried as I might, I couldn't photo the extreme shimmer and sparkle of this. Even the tiny binding fabric to represent a little metal frame, sparkles! You can see the blending of paints here. 

These close ups give you an idea of sparkle, blending, stenciling, free motion, threads...

I tried to bead some stamens and pollen heads in the center but the peltex was extremely difficult to bead through, not flexible at all. 

 

here it is displayed on a little easel on my dusty desk... don't judge! lol

and on our entry table. I don't have a name for it yet... but I wonder if Georgia O'Keeffe would like it?

and on to the start of something.... my SAHRR center

I'm doing the Stay-at-home-round-robin again this year. This little spring piece will be my center... 

I don't have a lot of spring or Easter quilts and with this snow on the ground it's fun to think about some flowers! 

recently I told you I learned a machine piecing technique for making hexies without pivoting or y-seam stress. I made these three with dark blue scraps because rainbow scrap challenge is to use that color this month.

I used a pattern to make the bunny in applique with several textured browns... how I love her! It pays to have a stash of cool fabrics from which to fussy cut sections.

the pattern source

Made the butterfly, fused it on a goddess sheet so it was one unit to audition onto backgrounds. When I saw it stuck on my design wall on the hexies I said, how fun! After much auditioning of backgrounds I allowed myself to cut that glorious daisy fabric at the bottom, and picked a subtle cloudy sky fabric. 

We will be adding rows according to weekly prompts so I just folded the edges under for the photo. 

I sewed the hexie unit onto the pieced background with a button hole stitch around the set of three. I will sew bunnie  and her friend down  later so they don't get messed up with all the rows to come. 

so there you go... a satisfying week in studio!

Linking to: 

Project quilting: https://kimlapacek.com/2023/01/14-2-pink-tint-challenge-2-of-project-quilting-season-14.html

SAHRR https://quiltinggail.com/

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patchwork Sunday    

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/   

oh Scrap Sundays

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts
lovelaughquilt.mondays 

http://www.inquiringquilter.com/ Wednesday wait loss

Midweek makers wednesdays  

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/ 

https://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/ 

off the wall Fridays   

peacock party

tgiffriday

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