Finishing up some and working on new piece

Well I’m busy and seem to have flowers on the brain. I’ve finished three small pieces with blue flowers, now I am starting a red lily. It is a fused piece with appliqué stems. Next up is to cut the batting and backing, then baste and ready to quilt!
Here’s the last blue flowered on and then the red lily.

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Olde UFO and newer work

I looked into my UFO box to see what I had and came up with cut triangles and four blocks, so I made more to create a runner for my sideboard. Problem with that is I don’t have any fabric for the binding.

I also have a new WIP that I like quite a bit - that blue!

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Iris wall hanging

This week I made a small wall hanging of an iris quilt. I fused the iris and the leaves and then made a sandwich and proceeded to be puzzled by what type of quilting to do on it. Eventually i got a brainstorm and quilted it from the back following the pattern of the motifs there. I’m pretty happy with how it looks.

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A Lily

This week I made a lily that has thread painting in the center and some fabric paint to highlight the center making it a bit darker than the original color of the fabric. I seem to be making something once a week and drawing the work out so I can do it in the mornings.

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Bloodroot

I thought I would make a small bloodroot quilt/wall hanging. It is fused then quilted all over with various quilting in the different areas. I have a little bit of hesitation in making work with raw edges but I think I’ll get over it, maybe 😂

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Down on the farm

several years ago I stayed at a B&B in Connecticut. This was a scene from my window and I’ve always loved it. It’s a small piece 10 x 10 or so. I fused the buildings, thread painted the tree and did some felted and embroidery for the sheep 

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Thread painting a tree

This week I started a new thread painting of a tree and it’s roots. I’m working on the forest floor right now and only have my second layer finished. I will move onto several other colors to complete it and will probably be finished in a couple of days. Working on things like this keeps me happy and fulfills my creative muse.

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There’s the tree with the forest floor finished, well, not quite finished. I did work on it a bit more and added a couple of more colors to the floor, added some leaves to the tree that’s behind and the small one to the right.

Finished!

So I finished the quilting and put a green binding on it. Now I’m at a loss as to what to do. Should I make another of the same type, start a thread painting garden scene, work on some rock wall and garden stuff. Ive got other ideas but none are what I want to do. Just whining. So here’s the finished little quilted wall hanging.

Starting the quilting

So now I’ve been quilting it! I’ve used a variegated thread on the flower petals and color coordinated on the parts I’ve quilted so far. I started using a foot for quilting but ended up taking the foot off and following the brown design that way. It’s a little different but I got used to it.

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Home bound

During this time it leaves plenty of day to work on various projects. I started this piece with a completely different thought process. It evolved to doing hand work on the flowers and I didn’t want it to look like Dresden plate, but it does. So now I’m at the quilting stage and some of the areas allude me as to what to do there. I will continue working on it until it is done, then probably post it again.

Bonsai thread painting finished

Well I had the moss and pot to finish yesterday and here it is!

I did some sewing around the top of the pot but used a piece of fabric fused on for the body of the pot. Now onto my next tree, choosing which design, hmmmm.

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Art and creativity evolves

It’s been 4 years and I have entered another phase of making art. I found this book and it had an intriguing way of using the sewing machine to create. Ive been working this way for the past year and enjoy the challenge. It’s called machine embroidered designs. So I’m not using any computer controlled machine it is done with a hoop and colored thread and some would call it thread painting.

This is the one I’m working on today. I’m enjoying this one. It will be about 3 - 4 inches tall when done.