At first thought the word embellish triggered visions of Angelina fibers, wool and silk roving, foils, tyvek, beads, ribbons and all sorts of additives. In the end however, I decided to go with the two of my most used embellishments... thread and paint. I started with one of Vicki's hand dyed fat quarters and fused 3 full and two half flowers I cut from silk dupioni to that background fabric. The flowers were inspired by doodles in my sketchbook. Then I painted the rest of the flowers on the background with textile paints and dry pigments; and lastly brushed a layer of Opal Dust over the whole piece.
Layered with two battings... cotton and wool, I embellished my flowers with thread. Again the stitched designs came right from the pages of my sketchbook.
The pages from my sketchbook that inspired this piece and some more photos of the quilt can be found on my blog
Really lovely Deb!
ReplyDeleteYour color palettes always make me smile. I dream of becoming an accomplished free motion quilter like you and Kathy S.
ReplyDeleteI love that you turned a sketch into something with so much texture and twinkle!
ReplyDeleteWhat fun and nice to work from your sketch-something I need to learn to do.
ReplyDeleteGreat quilt and so colorful.
ReplyDeleteIt's lovely. Beautiful quilting, I lam amazed you got so much sparkle from what you used. I thought there was Angelina or beads or something else!
ReplyDeleteI have to say, "It's Groovy!" (reminds me of some floral print curtains I has in the early '70s)!
What a happy, colorful work! Makes me smile.
ReplyDeleteYou are the master of brights and I love every spec of it!
ReplyDeleteSuperb stitching as usual, Deb. I agree with Deb H. Wonderfully, colorfully "Groovy!!!"
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