Browsing thru an old Coldwater Creek magazine this week - I was inspired! The colors and fabrics they use in their clothing are just beautiful. And they were selling some beautiful prints by artist Cheri Blum. (Saddened to learn from visiting her website that she passed away a few years ago.) I gathered some leaves, got out burgundy and orange fabric inks and got to work. Painted 7 blocks, then pulled out a piece of oriental fabric and a dark red velvet - started piecing it all together. It lacked something....thru in a few small pieces of teal blue.....and this wallhanging makes my heart sing! Plan to quilt the snot out of it....and hang it up high in our living room.
After making the black placemat purse (shown at bottom) I had some scraps leftover - added some other scraps along with 2 blocks of painted wildflowers and 2 hours later I have this small wallhanging top. I like how it came out - but it really needs some sublte and some not so subtle, funky quilting to really set it off.
These scraps of mostly orange with purple was a sample for embellishing in a class with Paula Reid. It has couched threads, cords, beads and baubles sewn on. I had also couched a wire across it - which I did not like, luckily I was able to pull the wire out. When I crumpled it to throw it away, the shape of the wire now looked pretty good. So I added some beads and baubles to the wire and sewed it on also - you can see it in the upper right. This is now my purse, complete with a picture of my two children on it.
A Placemat Purse - started life as a Walmart clearance placemat - add an inside pocket and handles.
Browsing thru an old Coldwater Creek magazine this week - I was inspired! The colors and fabrics they use in their clothing are just beautiful. And they were selling some beautiful prints by artist Cheri Blum. (Saddened to learn from visiting her website that she passed away a few years ago.) I gathered some leaves, got out burgundy and orange fabric inks and got to work. Painted 7 blocks, then pulled out a piece of oriental fabric and a dark red velvet - started piecing it all together. It lacked something....thru in a few small pieces of teal blue.....and this wallhanging makes my heart sing! Plan to quilt the snot out of it....and hang it up high in our living room.
After making the black placemat purse (shown at bottom) I had some scraps leftover - added some other scraps along with 2 blocks of painted wildflowers and 2 hours later I have this small wallhanging top. I like how it came out - but it really needs some sublte and some not so subtle, funky quilting to really set it off.
These scraps of mostly orange with purple was a sample for embellishing in a class with Paula Reid. It has couched threads, cords, beads and baubles sewn on. I had also couched a wire across it - which I did not like, luckily I was able to pull the wire out. When I crumpled it to throw it away, the shape of the wire now looked pretty good. So I added some beads and baubles to the wire and sewed it on also - you can see it in the upper right. This is now my purse, complete with a picture of my two children on it.
Johnni-I LOVE your spirit! Inspiration that you find in common places is inspiring to ME!
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting your blog on quilt art, I enjoyed visiting it.
Debbie Babin