Journal Quilt Challenge #4: Strip scraps, thread painting, and sketched idea....this one uses them all. Inspiration was a few shells I picked up last spring at Daytona Beach--an old haunt from years ago--when Russ and I stopped on our way to Orlando.
The tiny shell I sketched from had a few bluish streaks and a lightly shaded blue area that I tried to capture with the thread painting. I used 5 different colors of thread on this--base color is light tan, filled in with darker tan, dark blue, light blue and grey.
When I was piecing the beige and tan strips for the background, I spotted the dark blue swirled strip in the scrap box. I added it for interest and contrast...and threw none of it away. The small strips were added raw edge style. And I tacked on a couple of sea shells, too.
And the odd shape....that's what I sketched for some reason. Most likely it is because I can't draw a straight line. It works for me and reminds me of the curved edge of the water on the sand.
No binding on this one either....and I claimed to prefer binding on the edge? It was just easier--lazy me--to do it envelope style then edge stitch where I could and quilt it. I did put the corner triangles for hanging on the back before stitching the thing together. I just avoided the upper corners when quilting.
Insight: Necessity is the mother of invention----the odd contraption to use the thread on a bobbin.
Odd shapes convey movement. I need to use more curves.
I am very glad I decided to jump into this challenge.....but I am running out of wall space!
Happy stitching.
The tiny shell I sketched from had a few bluish streaks and a lightly shaded blue area that I tried to capture with the thread painting. I used 5 different colors of thread on this--base color is light tan, filled in with darker tan, dark blue, light blue and grey.
When I was piecing the beige and tan strips for the background, I spotted the dark blue swirled strip in the scrap box. I added it for interest and contrast...and threw none of it away. The small strips were added raw edge style. And I tacked on a couple of sea shells, too.
And the odd shape....that's what I sketched for some reason. Most likely it is because I can't draw a straight line. It works for me and reminds me of the curved edge of the water on the sand.
No binding on this one either....and I claimed to prefer binding on the edge? It was just easier--lazy me--to do it envelope style then edge stitch where I could and quilt it. I did put the corner triangles for hanging on the back before stitching the thing together. I just avoided the upper corners when quilting.
Insight: Necessity is the mother of invention----the odd contraption to use the thread on a bobbin.
Odd shapes convey movement. I need to use more curves.
I am very glad I decided to jump into this challenge.....but I am running out of wall space!
Happy stitching.
I like the artistic shaping to the edge :) Very pretty piece.
ReplyDeleteThe thread painting on the seashell is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteYou can always display the journal quilts in a basket on a side table. they would be great conversation pieces.