Quiltchicken
Rich With Sparkling Variety (2/7 ROYGBIV)
The June challenge was to be inspired by the friendship star block, and to "read" one color of the spectrum. Project is 20" square.
After crazy-piecing the center star, I set it off from the Cherrywood background with a skinny mini strip in turquoise/orange batik. I echo-quilted all around the star to create "channels" which I filled with text printed on transfer artist paper (TAP) and applied with heat.
The words are all descriptions that fit one or more of my friends and demonstrates the depth and breadth of their interests and truly unique personalities. (I'll let them each search and guess which fit them!)
The TAP transfers polymer background around your image - and with the text it created ghost squares around the text. To downplay those text boxes, I brushed silver fabric paint with glitter over the entire "channel" that contained text, focusing extra paint in the areas with no polymer ghost to even things out. (Glitter doesn't photograph well, so you'll have to trust me that it's cooler than it looks here.)
I then added a bunch more rows of quilting stitches in white, orange, black, and even a big-stitch machine application of #8 perle cotton in turquoise.
I bound the quilt with a faux piped binding to add another skinny bit of turquoise - and had EPIC (and uncharacteristic) problems with my machine binding resulting in much ripping, replacing, inserting, and reworking. The third time was certainly the charm!
I live and quilt in Lodi WI.
Rich With Sparkling Variety (2/7 ROYGBIV)
The June challenge was to be inspired by the friendship star block, and to "read" one color of the spectrum. Project is 20" square.
After crazy-piecing the center star, I set it off from the Cherrywood background with a skinny mini strip in turquoise/orange batik. I echo-quilted all around the star to create "channels" which I filled with text printed on transfer artist paper (TAP) and applied with heat.
The words are all descriptions that fit one or more of my friends and demonstrates the depth and breadth of their interests and truly unique personalities. (I'll let them each search and guess which fit them!)
The TAP transfers polymer background around your image - and with the text it created ghost squares around the text. To downplay those text boxes, I brushed silver fabric paint with glitter over the entire "channel" that contained text, focusing extra paint in the areas with no polymer ghost to even things out. (Glitter doesn't photograph well, so you'll have to trust me that it's cooler than it looks here.)
I then added a bunch more rows of quilting stitches in white, orange, black, and even a big-stitch machine application of #8 perle cotton in turquoise.
I bound the quilt with a faux piped binding to add another skinny bit of turquoise - and had EPIC (and uncharacteristic) problems with my machine binding resulting in much ripping, replacing, inserting, and reworking. The third time was certainly the charm!
I live and quilt in Lodi WI.