Working up a design for a friend - I call it a first draft but I am actually approaching it as a 'study' for the final piece. I am 'painting' it with pigment inks, colored pencils and fused cloth on cloth.
Here it is ready to be quilted.
Still incomplete in this picture - more quilting to be done and it is only pinned to the stretched canvas - but complete enough to analyze. This picture was taken with the flash and doesn't look as dark overall as the piece actually seems. I overinked I think - I must take care on the final piece. Also, trying to make the eagle and eaglets 'pop', I used wool batting under them on top of the cotton batting. Mistake = as I am doing such heavy quilting, it is just more for my needle to stitch through and flatten. I would truly appreciate comments!!
We visited the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in Tuscumbia, AL last week - very interesting museum. Just had to take a picture of this picture of an impromptu 'jam session' with Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. Wouldn't you have loved to be the proverbial 'fly on the wall' for that 4-some!!
A chenille bedspread - very, very lightweight (I started calling it cheesecloth - it was so lightweight) but now layered with batting, a backing then quilted. It worked up beautifully I think AND the bedspread now has a wonderful soft thick weight to it.
Working up a design for a friend - I call it a first draft but I am actually approaching it as a 'study' for the final piece. I am 'painting' it with pigment inks, colored pencils and fused cloth on cloth.
Here it is ready to be quilted.
Still incomplete in this picture - more quilting to be done and it is only pinned to the stretched canvas - but complete enough to analyze. This picture was taken with the flash and doesn't look as dark overall as the piece actually seems. I overinked I think - I must take care on the final piece. Also, trying to make the eagle and eaglets 'pop', I used wool batting under them on top of the cotton batting. Mistake = as I am doing such heavy quilting, it is just more for my needle to stitch through and flatten. I would truly appreciate comments!!
We visited the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in Tuscumbia, AL last week - very interesting museum. Just had to take a picture of this picture of an impromptu 'jam session' with Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. Wouldn't you have loved to be the proverbial 'fly on the wall' for that 4-some!!
A chenille bedspread - very, very lightweight (I started calling it cheesecloth - it was so lightweight) but now layered with batting, a backing then quilted. It worked up beautifully I think AND the bedspread now has a wonderful soft thick weight to it.