Terry Aske Art Quilt Studio

During this past week, I finished the mixed media piece, with silk leaves.

I love the gorgeous batik fabric and the vibrant autumn shades of the silk leaves.  I quilted the background with vertical lines, then tacked the silk leaves in place, then free-motion quilted along the vein lines.

I’m still waiting for my coordinating Kona solids to arrive in the mail, so I can get started on the Kona Modern Quilts challenge – the finished quilt is due at our guild meeting next month!

While I’m waiting, though, I’ve started working on an art quilt.  For the past couple of months I’ve been focusing mostly on modern quilts, so it will be good to get back to an art quilt.

This will be a big project, so will take several weeks to complete.  I’ll take some breaks and work on other smaller projects during the construction of the tree quilt, so I’m posting about it in a separate series of posts – here’s the first one.

I’m linking up with these blogs for WiP Wednesday.  Click on the buttons below to see all the people participating and check out their projects.

I finished the small quilt made from leftover scraps and Kona neutrals.  I generally don’t choose fabric for the binding until I’ve finished a quilt, but I did have in mind that I would bind it with a darker neutral.  However, serendipity stepped in, and after trimming the quilt, I set it down on top of some dark pink fabric.  I really liked the way the pink fabric looked with the quilt, but didn’t have quite enough, so I pieced it with a dark rusty-burgundy solid.  I really like how it turned out.

I also attacked the ‘pile’ of quilts that needed labels and sleeves.  I made labels for 6 quilts, and even wrote a tutorial about how I make labels.  I also completed several quilt sleeves.  Find a link to my favorite sleeve technique on this page.

I’m still waiting for my coordinating Kona solids to arrive in the mail, so the Kona Modern Quilts challenge will have to wait a while longer.

I’m working on a mixed media piece, with silk leaves.  I’ll stitch the leaves to the background by free-motion stitching the veins.

I’m linking up with these blogs for WiP Wednesday.  Click on the buttons below to see all the people participating and check out their projects.

Here’s last week’s project – finished!  Thanks to everyone who made suggestions about fabrics for the corner units.  I actually previewed several more fabrics after last week’s post and selected 3 fabrics also used in the center.  I decided to cut down the center to reduce the finished size of the quilt.

I quilted with a square spiral on point, using this really cool neon-colored variegated thread.

I must say that knowing I’m going to be reporting on my progress every week is giving me an added incentive to finish projects quickly.  I even got a few sleeves sewn onto the quilts in the ‘pile’.

I’m working on two new projects this week.  At the retreat in September, I pieced some of the leftover scraps from the quilt above, with the plan to use them in a small quilt with some neutral Kona solids.

The next project is a challenge we’re doing at the Vancouver MQG.  We each received a half-meter of Robert Kaufman’s Kona Modern Quilts fabric line designed by our friend Cynthia of the FVMQG.  Each half-meter was a different pattern or colorway.  I got this one, Stripes in the Merlot colorway    We are to combine it with other prints from this line and/or Kona solids.   I think I’ll do a wonky version of the quilt I just finished.

I’m also going get some of those labels made for the quilts in ‘the pile’.

I’m linking up with these blogs for WiP Wednesday.  Click on the buttons below to see all the people participating and check out their projects.