Last week, I started working on my quilt for the annual art exchange of the Fibre Art Network. You can see my inspiration photos and initial fabric selection in last week’s post.
As I said last week, I decided to just pin the background fabrics in place rather than fusing them down (my usual technique). Then I straight-line quilted them to the green felt base. I was pleased that when I was finished quilting, I only found 2 pieces on the floor that had fallen off! I just placed them on top of the other pieces and added a few more quilting lines.
Then I started playing with the flower fabrics. I decided to cut the squares smaller and scatter them around (photo 2). I felt I needed more colour variety, so I added orange (photo 3). Then I added purple (photo 4). As I was adding colours, I was also rearranging the other pieces – this part can be a little addictive, and I had to force myself to stop before I totally covered the background!.
At that point, I applied a tiny bit of fusible web in the center of each flower piece. This was sufficient to keep them in place while I quilted around the edge of each square.
I fused fabric to the back of the felt base to give the piece more body (and coincidentally cover my messy tread ends on the back). I finished the edges by zigzag stitching with green thread.
Here is my finished piece. I think I have successfully captured the essence of the wildflowers that were my inspiration.
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Thanks for stopping by. Today, I’m linking up with these blogs – click on the links below, where you’ll find many other creative and inspirational projects.
- Nina-Marie’s Off the Wall Friday
- Can I get a Whoop Whoop? by Confessions of a Fabric Addict
Love this! You have so much patience for the detailed quilting.
Very nice