The snow began late in the afternoon, and the family decided to head out early to get home before the heavy fall began. So after everything was cleaned up, I got some stitching time in. I was able to finish up my latest wall hanging, Hope, with the thread painted cardinal. Again it's a
watercolor.....what else would you expect? This scene reminds me of the view from my sewing room, too.
The process for the border quilting:
I used the border area to practice free motion quilting in the "mctavishing style". Wendy at Ivory Spring has a great tutorial on her domesticated mctavishing that I tried to follow. Follow the link and check out her blog. She does wonderful quilting and designing too. My "s" shape is a bit different than hers, like a signature she explains. The s shape is stacked and then repeated and filled in to create wonderful texture. I used Isacord thread for the machine quilting. Here are a couple of photos to show it close up.
The watercolor center of this was quilted with a large meandering stitch.
New year approaching, and that means new projects......first on the list is a quilt for Justin, who will be graduating from Clemson in May. He brought me a photo of a quilt he wants. It is just large squares--which will give me lots of room to use different quilting patterns---with a pointed triangle edge. I am still working out the edge....I think I will have to face it rather than binding it. More on that later. Happy stitching.
That wallhanging turned out so pretty! The thread painting is almost a lost art with all of the embroidery machines out there. I learned it too way back in 1974.
ReplyDeleteMy S shapes became my own in my McTavishing too. I think that is what makes it your own signature quilting style.
As usual another beautiful quilt you have made.
ReplyDeleteThe free motiion stitching looks really lovely on the boarders.
Delia