Recently there has been a discussion on Quiltart about using faces - and over the past few days I have used two faces in quilts. This one - a deer face. I had planned on adding few quilting stitches to the deer. The quilt is a YSQ (Yard Square Quilt) to be sold in the spring for charity. The batting is Warm & Natural cotton - but under the deer face, I added a piece of wool batting - to help 'fill' it out. But as I worked on it - one thing lead to another - and I heavily quilted the deer. Except for the muzzle - and it poofs out in a delightfully 3d way. The deer was painted with Tsukineko inks - only 3 colors - but in quilting, I used 6 different threads.
This is a detail of a small quilt I made last week called Cast. In it, the face is in profile and dark - with few details. So I stabilized it with Stitch Witchery to the batting - and used very little quilting on it. It is holding well - but I think there must be a better way.
Recently there has been a discussion on Quiltart about using faces - and over the past few days I have used two faces in quilts. This one - a deer face. I had planned on adding few quilting stitches to the deer. The quilt is a YSQ (Yard Square Quilt) to be sold in the spring for charity. The batting is Warm & Natural cotton - but under the deer face, I added a piece of wool batting - to help 'fill' it out. But as I worked on it - one thing lead to another - and I heavily quilted the deer. Except for the muzzle - and it poofs out in a delightfully 3d way. The deer was painted with Tsukineko inks - only 3 colors - but in quilting, I used 6 different threads.
This is a detail of a small quilt I made last week called Cast. In it, the face is in profile and dark - with few details. So I stabilized it with Stitch Witchery to the batting - and used very little quilting on it. It is holding well - but I think there must be a better way.
Your deer is fabulous and the quilting lines really enhance it. I think the face looks fine just the way it is, but would have to see the whole quilt.
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Oh my! Johnni, both of these are just lovely. Of course, I am an animal-lover so I especially love your very realistic-looking deer. Your human face is very well-done too ... I like the heavier quilting in th background to bring the face forward. Thanks for posting these!
ReplyDeleteBoth are very appealing. I like how the face stands out against the background quilting and the deer is so realistic. Very nice!
ReplyDeleteYour deer is absolutely gorgeous! It looks like I could reach out and touch real fur...the quilting makes it so realistic! The other piece is great too...very peaceful and contemplative.
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