My creative week.... Art quilt for Table Scraps Challenge "Beautiful Understory"

 

I almost didn't make a table scraps challenge this month, feeling so tired from the last project quilting piece, and the round robin finish. I'm so glad I made this! 

Joy likes us to use scraps in the RSC color of the month if possible, so I pulled some strips to see what came of them...

after moving them around, I cut free formed curves and sewed strip to strip, pressing after each seam, trying out more colors and patterns... as one does. til it became about 15" wide by 22" long

time to quilt!

lots of quilting in parallel lines, different color and textures of threads, stop reevaluate, add more. Notice the ragged bits cut away when I made the initial long cuts often made it onto the finished top to become rawedged appliques. I love the tiny pops of color and texture

placed a broken broach on the bottom for laughs... 

 here is the backing I chose, seemed wild and fun!

while I stitched I imagined an old growth tall forest. I wondered if I might add in some mushrooms and a fern, but it seemed to throw off the scale of the "trees" 

I stitched a combination of free motion and even-feed foot work. 

binding was done one side at a time, because I had that tiny scrap just enough for the bottom, with texture and leeeeeetle hearts...

I kept putting the wild woman pin on it... but it was too "something"

I did this drawing from a youtube tutorial, see yesterday's post for details

so I pulled out my fusible scrap box and cut some mushroom shapes from it, along with two tiny fairies

these were the quilting threads used for the appliques, along with pencils and brush pens

a close up of the little appliqued area... I scumbled a shade along the tops to lock them down and shadow with the thread on the left on the light ones. It is some kind of twist of bronze and black, kind of textural and kind of bold on the spool. It blended really well but I had to go slower than I usually do. On the stems I used the oliver twist in gray tones, and came in repetitively in parallel lines on the left to create shadow and depth, and it worked a dream. I would love all the oliver twist colors. I used black then hologram silver with yellow and pink in it, for fairies. The under caps are drawn out with the black thin 2 ply broder cotton and it was perfect for definition. The silver mylar on wings and dresses.

click on any image to enlarge for details 

so you can see more of the piecing, extra strip placement, and scale

I made this in less than a week, because I got excited about it... isn't that a nice feeling as an artist?

speaking of that, please come see my paintings done this week, on this link    click here!

one of them

  

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https://thejoyfulquilter.blogspot.com/2023/03/march-2023-abc-table-scraps-challenge.html

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com

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oh Scrap Sundays

https://quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com/ 

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts

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

Midweek makers wednesdays  

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/ 

https://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/ 

off the wall Fridays   

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