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This must be the first time I've finished a quilt a month and a half before the deadline! I've 'cheated' by using a quilt that I made about ten years ago, but which had a major problem with the last step, just before I was going to enter it in a European Quilt Association exhibition: the only time I have ever wanted to enter anything. I was so dispirited at the time that I abandoned it, despite having spent over 40 hours on the seed stitch quilting.The theme for the exhibition was colour and each member country of the EQA was allotted a different one, the one for France being red. I played around with a stamp pad and used the resulting motif for my quilt. I used quilting cottons and a transparent fabric for the motif of overlapping squares, outlining them with couched gold threads. The foil for the central squares was the last thing that was added, and that is where everything went wrong, despite it having worked perfectly on a sample piece. I had used bondaweb to attach the squares, but when I added the central gold foil squares to each motif the foil attached itself to more of the motif than intended as the glue must have seeped through the transparent fabric. It looked terrible. I have had to take off all the appliquéd motifs, and remake them, this time adding the gold foil squares to the centre before I applied the bondaweb to the transparent squares,then applying them to the quilt. I'm pleased to have had this opportunity to finish it, as I doubt that I would have got round to it without the deadline of this challenge.
The following photos show the original sample that worked and my sketchbook try outs
It hasn't photographed very well.
ReplyDeleteNot cheating, Jinnie, you deserve a pat on the back for picking that 'disaster' up and turning it into a really lovely, striking piece! Thanks for showing us the process - I am always interested in how people achieve things. Be happy and proud (sorry about the exhibition though...). Hilary
ReplyDeleteThe colour red is such a dynamic colour as it is in this piece of yours Jinnie . Well done with your persistence in getting it to be as you wanted it. I have tried using gold foil in the past and found that it dissolved in the heat of the iron . So one has to be careful when using it. In your piece it gives an excellent contrast to the red fabric . The exciting thing about our craft is that we are always learning and enjoying ourselves as we learn ! Rosemary
ReplyDeleteWell done Jinny, you should be very proud of your piece and in persisting in getting it exactly as you wanted it to be. It is such a striking colour and you have used it to perfection, the gold really bringing it together. I really love the way you have explained your journey and so sorry that you could not enter it at the time, but it is such a great piece and thank you for sharing it with us.
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