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More thread painting

thread painting

I think I’m addicted…to coffee and to thread painting. A good opportunity to combine my addictions and make a thread painting of some of my coffee cups. I took a photograph of one of my coffee cups and manipulated the result on my i-pad using Moku HD. I printed the result onto a piece of white fabric (one big cup, two small ones) and then it’s time for the really fun part, thread painting.

thread painting

The big cup is almost finished. I haven’t decided exactly how to carry on. I think I’ll cut out the cup and then use it on a background quilt. To be continued…

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Folding frenzy 2

After folding and twiddling every last piece of fabric you have in your stash, you’ll have to figure out what to do with the results. I made some of mine into shopping bags:I used readymade shopping bags and added my folded sample as a pocket on the front. You can also use your samples to make cushions,  table runners, small quilts, etc.

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Folding frenzy

Some workshops should come with a warning. Jennie Rayment‘s folding workshops definitely should. Folding is addictive. Once you’ve started, it’s hard to stop because you keep thinking ‘what if I use this fabric, what if I make it smaller/bigger, what if I make it into a cushion/bag/quilt/etc. So here’s what happened:

This is one of the samples I made in Jennie’s class, we got the basics down during the class (she really makes you work) and then I finished it at home. This is the second sample:

At home I made some more. First using batik fabrics:

And then I made smaller pieces in white cotton. These are samples for the quilt I am going to make for my granddaughter Sara.

As you’ve probably guessed from the samples , it’s going to be a white and pink quilt, with lots of folding and applique.

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Festival of Quilts Video on eQuilter.com

For everyone who didn’t get to the Festival of Quilts and everyone who did and wants a repeat. Someone tipped me to this video today. It shows a selection of the quilts in the Pictorial category, including the winners and my own quilt (at the very end). Enjoy!

 

 

 

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Student work

Last Saturday I finally got round to taking some pictures of two quilts made by my students last year. It was their first attempt at designing a quilt of their own. So far they had always worked from patterns so this was a big step for them. They both used a postcard as inspiration and ended up with these two little treasures. Carla still has to do the quilting on her quilt so I hope I’ll have a picture of that soon. Ciska’s quilt is finished, don’t you just love the little umbrellas?

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Festival of Quilts 2012 (2)

You can’t start quilting soon enough, and while you’re at it, you might as well enter the competition at the Festival of Quilts. This years theme was: Diamonds, and this is what they did with it:

Bente, Tess, Emma, Lois and Rachel entered the competition for 9-11 year olds. Marle entered the competition for 5-8 year olds and she got a Highly Commended on her quilt. Well done, Marle!

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Festival of Quilts 2012

The Festival of Quilts in Birmingham was once again an incredible experience. So many beautiful quilts, so many wonderful people, so much interesting new quilt stuff. You’re ready to drop after four days but it still never seems enough. If you’ve never been, put it on your calendar, August 8-11, 2013!

I sent two of my quilts to the competition. My threadpainted doors to the Pictorial Quilts:

 

Welcome…?

and a new quilt, ‘A thing of beauty…’, to the Quilters’ Guild Challenge:

A thing of beauty…

The theme of the challenge was: Britain, what it means to me. The inspiration comes from English language and literature. I used several of my favourite poems. It has a needlefelted background with heavy machine stitching, hand stitching, poems printed on silk, and beading.

The quilts didn’t win any prizes but there were some nice comments from the judges and visitors.

 

 

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More bookwrap fun

Once you get started making bookwraps, you see possibilities everywhere. So, I made some more, the Sunset series:

The strips on the bookwraps were made by needlefelting a piece of felt with wool tops. The background is quilted.

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More bookwraps

Bits and pieces from my new quilt, it’s still underwraps, waiting to make its debut at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham next week, but here are the bookwraps:

Britain I

Britain II

Britain III

Needlefelting, machine embroidery, cording, and lots of stitching.

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Bookwraps

I’ve found a new addiction. The good thing is, it doesn’t cost a lot and you end up with lots of pretty gifts. For a project that’s coming up (still under wraps, more at a later date) I’ve started making bookwraps for A6-sized notebooks. To put in a little extra challenge for myself I’m making them from leftover bits and pieces and experiments. So far I haven’t had to buy anything. The only ‘new’ material I use is threads and ribbons and sometimes a bit of backing (leftover bits of fabric). Here are some of the results:

 Festival I        Festival II

Festival III

Festival IV

 

These bookwraps were all made from pieces left over from my Festival quilt. They are needle-felted (embellisher), stitched, machine quilted, and finished with cording.

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