TREES, TREES EVERYWHERE

My hubbie and I spent a couple of hours walking around our local Botanical Gardens yesterday playing with our cameras mostly looking birds but the gardens are full of amazing trees. Here are a couple of them.

.....and coincidentally our International Quilt Festival is on at the moment and one of my Guilds Group quilts won first prize and the theme......trees.

Apologies for the poor Pic.  Hmmmm!  My head is churning away.  Watch this space. 

Sorry for the delay!

 Every one all did a great job with your quilt .

Sorry guys, I needed a bit of time this time and couldn't really find the inspiration.I'm really sorry and hope to have it up as soon as possible!

Momo

And the next theme is... TREES

 

    During the covid lockdown, when we were allowed to walk no further than a kilometer from home for the short period of an hour, I took a daily walk round our  housing estate, which has many trees in the passages between the houses, and on the stretch of grassland between the estate and the motorway. I began to take  more notice of the trees, filling two sketchbooks with drawings, prints and samples inspired by the textures of their bark, their silhouettes, and their leaves. For the last few years I have been working on samples and have  started making quilts inspired by them. So trees as a theme was a natural choice for me. Have fun!

AND THE NEXT PERSON TO CHOOSE A THEME IS....

JINNIE!   

Have fun with choosing, Jinnie.  Hilary

CAFE AU LAIT

Sorry everyone.  June has been especially hectic and this last week even more so.  The piece was finished apart from the border but I just didn't have the energy to finish it - though after this morning's effort, I might have had better luck!!!

The piece is an homage to Ben Nicholson and Morandi.  There were minor slip-ups along the way and at least one was a fortuitous boob meaning I had to add more turquoise - which I like.  This morning my machine is playing up and the edge is scrappy.  It is raw-edge appliqued, backed with felt, machine quilted and satin stitch edged.

I can't get the colour right - the background is much more creamy beige and the turquoise much brighter.  Ho hum.  It measures 17.5" x 11"

Hilary

 Teaser

   I have run out of time, due to life and eye strain, so I'm having to dose how much I can quilt at the moment. I have quilted about two thirds of it and will finish it as soon as possible. I have just looked again at Hilary's post about the monochrome challenge, which I have just looked at again, and I realise I have more than 5% of another colour: too much white. Unfortunately I am not as brave as Phil, so I will not be overdying it in another shade of blue! Therefore it will have to stay the same. 

 I was a bit daunted by this challenge but in the end really enjoyed doing it and am really pleased with the result.  I found a design I had roughly sketched out many years ago and worked on that until I was happy, as well as choosing the gradations.  In the end I enjoyed every minute of putting it together.

A GENTLE GIANT

 

Whole cloth, sketched, sandwiched, stitched and then dyed.  In the dyeing process I used a very large tray keeping the piece (A4) flat as I did not want a uniform colour. Interesting that I was able to, with the use of the stitching, keep the dye mostly away from the tusks. I did go in with Derwent sticks just to enhance areas where needed. 

The process of adding dyes after completing your piece I first saw many years ago by a Textile artist, June Barnes (Hilary correct me if I have her name wrong).  She did an amazing piece which was a study of bottles.  

DAISY'S HANDKERCHIEFS

 

 

Whilst clearing out a drawer I found about 10 handkerchiefs that belonged to Graham's Gran - Daisy, a pet name for her. Slow stitch on the base of one of the handkerchiefs with lots of old buttons and lace collected over the years. 

This is Beth's submission which she put together prior to starting her overseas trip. 

monochrome

 I chose the colour yellow going towards orange and as my secondary colour I used black but only as an outline for the shapes so that they stood out. It was fun to do and quite a challenge. In the end I was reasonably pleased with the result.

Rose Arch

Sorry I'm so late in submitting this, but I've finally finished my quilt!

I was inspired by the wedding invitations, where the couple is surrounded by a door of roses, full of happiness and sweetness.

The pattern was drawn with oil-based pen and embossed on cotton, and the roses were knitted with fabric.But I don't think I've got the desired feeling of the roses this time, I may need to test it more, since it's been delayed for too long, so I'll leave it like this for now!

Momo 

 

ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE

Sorry everyone, late again!  This has been a double challenge in that, although the technique is what I had in mind, I didn't have the time to do the screen printing.  But...I found a pile of fabrics with exactly the screen I wanted to use, plus of co-ordinating fabrics using various tie-dyeing techniques.  I have no idea when I did these but I must have enjoyed myself as there are so many.  So the second challenge was to create something with what I had.

All the fabrics are cotton and hand dyed or screen printed from a thermofax screen I had made from a photo I took of a rose in my garden.  It has an iron-on wadding (I had a sample the right size and was interested in how it would work - OK).  The roses are raw-edge applique fused on with Heat-n-Bond Ultra.  It has a bound edge and measures 41.5 x 50.5 cm.

Thanks Momo - nice to use up some of the stash.

Hilary