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Ooooo Leslie!!! I'm not much for art quilts usually but this one has made me
a believer. It is absolutely yummy and I am totally gobsmacked. You Go Girl. -- Anne in CA "It's not having what you want; it's wanting what you've got." -- Sheryl Crow http://home.covad.net/~arudolph/annes.htm The HairyFacedOnes 'N Me wrote: Many, many thanks to Kellie for doing this for me.... what a gal! Sadly, I am a much better quilter than photographer. It sure doesn't look so "gobsmacky" when reduced to the dulled colors and lack of detail in the pictures. Darn. Darn. Darn. Anyway, you can see it at: http://www.hamiltonpipeband.org/bergerfamily/leslie.htm I haven't decided yet whether to applique' the large leaves on the border, so y'all may tell me what you think. With or without? ;-) Leslie spitting on my stoopid camera The HairyFacedOnes 'N Me- My dogs aren't my whole life...they make my life whole. RCTQ- Houston 2004..... A good friend will come and bail you out of jail.... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn... that was fun!" |
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Leslie wrote:
Many, many thanks to Kellie for doing this for me.... what a gal! Sadly, I am a much better quilter than photographer. It sure doesn't look so "gobsmacky" when reduced to the dulled colors and lack of detail in the pictures. Darn. Darn. Darn. Anyway, you can see it at: http://www.hamiltonpipeband.org/bergerfamily/leslie.htm Usually when someone posts a link to their quilts, I'll click on 'em, admire, and continue lurking. But *your* quilt... it's gorgeous. I like the bruised stormy look of the background, the way the tree dances, and the contrast in the small leaves being blown around. It's the quilt I'd like to make someday (if I move beyond "beginner" to be a good quilter). I hope you feel proud of yourself... that's one amazing quilt. I haven't decided yet whether to applique' the large leaves on the border, so y'all may tell me what you think. With or without? ;-) I think the big leaves are pretty, but I'd sure like to see what they'd look like at the bottom left corner, like another poster said. I also really like the first picture, with no big leaves at all. IMO, that looks more like "art" where with the leaves I think it looks more "quilt." I have so many questions. Did you use a pattern, or design one of your own? How did you sew it? Did it take forever to cut out all the little leaves? How big is it? How long did it take? I'd love if you posted the story of how you made your quilt. Cina, awestruck |
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Cool! Wonder how that would look in my future condo?
-- LN in NH a crazy quilter * hand quilter * & hand appliquér all in all --- a very slow quilter.... So send quilts! http://photos.yahoo.com/lns_obsessed "The HairyFacedOnes 'N Me" wrote in message ... Many, many thanks to Kellie for doing this for me.... what a gal! Sadly, I am a much better quilter than photographer. It sure doesn't look so "gobsmacky" when reduced to the dulled colors and lack of detail in the pictures. Darn. Darn. Darn. Anyway, you can see it at: http://www.hamiltonpipeband.org/bergerfamily/leslie.htm I haven't decided yet whether to applique' the large leaves on the border, so y'all may tell me what you think. With or without? ;-) Leslie spitting on my stoopid camera The HairyFacedOnes 'N Me- My dogs aren't my whole life...they make my life whole. RCTQ- Houston 2004..... A good friend will come and bail you out of jail.... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn... that was fun!" |
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With. IMHO definately with.
Mickie "The HairyFacedOnes 'N Me" wrote in message ... Many, many thanks to Kellie for doing this for me.... what a gal! Sadly, I am a much better quilter than photographer. It sure doesn't look so "gobsmacky" when reduced to the dulled colors and lack of detail in the pictures. Darn. Darn. Darn. Anyway, you can see it at: http://www.hamiltonpipeband.org/bergerfamily/leslie.htm I haven't decided yet whether to applique' the large leaves on the border, so y'all may tell me what you think. With or without? ;-) Leslie spitting on my stoopid camera The HairyFacedOnes 'N Me- My dogs aren't my whole life...they make my life whole. RCTQ- Houston 2004..... A good friend will come and bail you out of jail.... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn... that was fun!" |
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"Cina" wrote in message ...
snipped and edited the bruised stormy look of the background, the way the tree dances, and the contrast in the small leaves being blown around. It's the quilt I'd like to make someday (if I move beyond "beginner" to be a good quilter). I hope you feel proud of yourself... that's one amazing quilt. I have so many questions. Did you use a pattern, or design one of your own? How did you sew it? Did it take forever to cut out all the little leaves? How big is it? How long did it take? I'd love if you posted the story of how you made your quilt. Cina, awestruck Cina, your description of Leslie's Gobsmacker Quilt is so poetic! And yes, Leslie, do tell all - Cina's questions are probably in a lot of our minds too, including mine! Mickie |
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Leslie --
Very beautiful. You have done a wonderful job. Love in Stitches, Coleen Queen of Loving Stitches "The HairyFacedOnes 'N Me" wrote in message ... Many, many thanks to Kellie for doing this for me.... what a gal! Sadly, I am a much better quilter than photographer. It sure doesn't look so "gobsmacky" when reduced to the dulled colors and lack of detail in the pictures. Darn. Darn. Darn. Anyway, you can see it at: |
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I have so many questions. Did you use a pattern, or design one of
your own? How did you sew it? Did it take forever to cut out all the little leaves? How big is it? How long did it take? I'd love if you posted the story of how you made your quilt. Cina, awestruck Jeepers. Now I'm gobsmacked at your reactions! Thank you, everybody, for the amazing, flattering, wonderful comments you have made. I was so pleased at how this little quilt came together, but this has really reinforced what I hoped I achieved. Thank you from my heart to all of you! It's my own design. It started with the small leaf print fabric. I had just a single FQ- it's cream with the various fall colored leaves spaced about 1/2 in. apart. I used Wonder Under and bonded the entire FQ of leaf print to a dull orange-ish fabric for a backing. Then I cut the individual leaves. Yep, very time-consuming and very hard on my arthritic hands. But so worth the effort. I drew the tree on freezer paper. I drew a tree, then cut off some of the branches to re-arrange them to look wind blown, then drew it again. The base of the trunk was an inspiration- it didn't look right until I threw in those strange, oddly curved lines. I rough cut out the tree shape and then ironed the tree drawing to the right side of a brown batik- it had interesting lines, shadings and movement in the batik. I cut the tree on the drawn lines, used a glue stick on the wrong side of the tree and glued it to the background fabric. Then I peeled off the freezer paper. Doing it that way prevented the fragile skinny branches and pointy tips from getting damaged or moved out of their correct positions. The background fabric is a boo-boo I made when experimenting with my first attempt at dyeing fabric. It was such a strange mustard-y gold with root beer brown splotches..... I didn't like it much and had pushed it to the rear of my hand-dyes. I never thought I'd use it. ;-) After gluing the tree in place, I outline stitched it using a straight stitch- very close to the edge- with invisible smoke colored thread to hold the edges down (raw edges). I added a 6 in. wide brown with black texture print border to the left side. That was too wide, so I trimmed it to 4 in. It looked much better and more balanced with the narrower border. Then I sandwiched and pin basted the top to a wild brown/tan print for backing using Warm & White for the batting. I buy the W&W by the bolt at Joann's with a 50% off coupon. The gold area measures 17-3/4X19-1/4. That's just what it ended up when I squared it up after quilting. I kept it as large as possible when I squared the corners and sides. I quilted the tree first using a walking foot. I started at the base and went up to the tallest branch. I kept starting at the base and going up to the tip of the branches, back down the branch and up the next branch. This created a bark like texture to the trunk since the lines of stitching are not straight or parallel. I used a deep brown cotton thread on the tree- top and bobbin. The body of the gold area was quilted with invisible thread in smoke color using the walking foot- I kept the same brown cotton thread in the bobbin. First, I marked it at a 45 degree angle and made a loose curve which went into a loop and then a slight curve to the next loop- my thoughts on how to represent those fickle autumn winds and the way falling leaves dance around on it. As I quilted these I randomly stuck a leaf under the needle and quilted a single line thru the leaf to attach it. The leaves are raw edged and 3D. The loop-de-loop quilting lines are 3-1/2 in. part. When they were done I added a medium size meander quilting between the loop-de-loops and the tree branches using a free motion foot with the feed dogs UP. I feel leaving the dogs up gives me more control in the size of my free motion stitches- works for me every time- so I don't fix what ain't broke! The first time I did that was an accident- I forgot to drop the dogs! I quilted in the ditch between the brown border and the gold background (back to the walking foot there) then quilted medium meanders in the brown border (back to the free motion foot). Then I added the binding to match the border. The large leaves were found on several different autumn prints. I cut chunks of Wonder Under larger than the individual leaf and ironed it to the wrong side- then cut the leaf out on the edge of the leaf shape. I removed the paper and bonded it to a similar colored fabric for the backing and cut it out on the edge again. Using matching rayon thread on top and matching cotton thread in the bobbin and my very favorite stabilizer "Easy Stitch", I did a narrow satin stitch around the edge of each leaf. Easy Stitch is cheap (bought a bolt from Big Horn for a very reasonable price!) and feeds thru the machine extremely well. It has a slightly "rubbery" feel so the machine can grip it very well and I think it helps make my satin stitches extra smooth, well spaced and just plain prettier. ;-) Another advantage is that when you tear it off after doing your stitching you still get the icky little whiskers that stabilizers are famous for, but with Easy Stitch, you can use a hot iron on it and the whiskers disappear! I LOVE that about it. (This is contrary to the manufacturer's instructions.... but it works for me.) For some reason I'm doing a lot of work with trees lately! I made a landscape quilt for my DS and DDIL's vow renewal ceremony this fall and am working on another one..... that a friend has talked me out of by offering to buy it. I'd rather give the darn thing away than try come up with a price! Forget it, LN! LOL Oh. Once I got the silly leaves cut out over a period of about a week working a few hours at a time- the quilt only took about 8 hours. Then the binding. That took HOURS! Ugh! Hand work.... :-P Again, I'm humbled by all the wonderful praise. Now I want to make another, even better, quilt and see what you say about that one! You have created a monster! vbg (This is the ONLY quilt photo I have ever shown y'all in the five years I've been on rctq. It was that special to me.) Leslie thrilled and so pleased.... and gobsmacked again The HairyFacedOnes 'N Me- My dogs aren't my whole life...they make my life whole. RCTQ- Houston 2004..... A good friend will come and bail you out of jail.... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn... that was fun!" |
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We have created a monster? Us? Oh, come now, Leslie. That is just one of our
favorite things. Now I think we should get your quilt and your writing in a magazine. Your tale of how you did it is very interesting and helpful. I have some leaves to appliqué and I believe you've aimed me to a way that would work better. Polly "The HairyFacedOnes 'N Me" wrote Jeepers. Now I'm gobsmacked at your reactions! Thank you, everybody, for the amazing, flattering, wonderful comments you have made. I was so pleased at how this little quilt came together, but this has really reinforced what I hoped I achieved. Thank you from my heart to all of you! It's my own design. It started with the small leaf print fabric. I had just a single FQ- it's cream with the various fall colored leaves spaced about 1/2 in. apart. I used Wonder Under and bonded the entire FQ of leaf print to a dull orange-ish fabric for a backing. Then I cut the individual leaves. Yep, very time-consuming and very hard on my arthritic hands. But so worth the effort. I drew the tree on freezer paper. I drew a tree, then cut off some of the branches to re-arrange them to look wind blown, then drew it again. The base of the trunk was an inspiration- it didn't look right until I threw in those strange, oddly curved lines. I rough cut out the tree shape and then ironed the tree drawing to the right side of a brown batik- it had interesting lines, shadings and movement in the batik. I cut the tree on the drawn lines, used a glue stick on the wrong side of the tree and glued it to the background fabric. Then I peeled off the freezer paper. Doing it that way prevented the fragile skinny branches and pointy tips from getting damaged or moved out of their correct positions. The background fabric is a boo-boo I made when experimenting with my first attempt at dyeing fabric. It was such a strange mustard-y gold with root beer brown splotches..... I didn't like it much and had pushed it to the rear of my hand-dyes. I never thought I'd use it. ;-) After gluing the tree in place, I outline stitched it using a straight stitch- very close to the edge- with invisible smoke colored thread to hold the edges down (raw edges). I added a 6 in. wide brown with black texture print border to the left side. That was too wide, so I trimmed it to 4 in. It looked much better and more balanced with the narrower border. Then I sandwiched and pin basted the top to a wild brown/tan print for backing using Warm & White for the batting. I buy the W&W by the bolt at Joann's with a 50% off coupon. The gold area measures 17-3/4X19-1/4. That's just what it ended up when I squared it up after quilting. I kept it as large as possible when I squared the corners and sides. I quilted the tree first using a walking foot. I started at the base and went up to the tallest branch. I kept starting at the base and going up to the tip of the branches, back down the branch and up the next branch. This created a bark like texture to the trunk since the lines of stitching are not straight or parallel. I used a deep brown cotton thread on the tree- top and bobbin. The body of the gold area was quilted with invisible thread in smoke color using the walking foot- I kept the same brown cotton thread in the bobbin. First, I marked it at a 45 degree angle and made a loose curve which went into a loop and then a slight curve to the next loop- my thoughts on how to represent those fickle autumn winds and the way falling leaves dance around on it. As I quilted these I randomly stuck a leaf under the needle and quilted a single line thru the leaf to attach it. The leaves are raw edged and 3D. The loop-de-loop quilting lines are 3-1/2 in. part. When they were done I added a medium size meander quilting between the loop-de-loops and the tree branches using a free motion foot with the feed dogs UP. I feel leaving the dogs up gives me more control in the size of my free motion stitches- works for me every time- so I don't fix what ain't broke! The first time I did that was an accident- I forgot to drop the dogs! I quilted in the ditch between the brown border and the gold background (back to the walking foot there) then quilted medium meanders in the brown border (back to the free motion foot). Then I added the binding to match the border. The large leaves were found on several different autumn prints. I cut chunks of Wonder Under larger than the individual leaf and ironed it to the wrong side- then cut the leaf out on the edge of the leaf shape. I removed the paper and bonded it to a similar colored fabric for the backing and cut it out on the edge again. Using matching rayon thread on top and matching cotton thread in the bobbin and my very favorite stabilizer "Easy Stitch", I did a narrow satin stitch around the edge of each leaf. Easy Stitch is cheap (bought a bolt from Big Horn for a very reasonable price!) and feeds thru the machine extremely well. It has a slightly "rubbery" feel so the machine can grip it very well and I think it helps make my satin stitches extra smooth, well spaced and just plain prettier. ;-) Another advantage is that when you tear it off after doing your stitching you still get the icky little whiskers that stabilizers are famous for, but with Easy Stitch, you can use a hot iron on it and the whiskers disappear! I LOVE that about it. (This is contrary to the manufacturer's instructions.... but it works for me.) For some reason I'm doing a lot of work with trees lately! I made a landscape quilt for my DS and DDIL's vow renewal ceremony this fall and am working on another one..... that a friend has talked me out of by offering to buy it. I'd rather give the darn thing away than try come up with a price! Forget it, LN! LOL Oh. Once I got the silly leaves cut out over a period of about a week working a few hours at a time- the quilt only took about 8 hours. Then the binding. That took HOURS! Ugh! Hand work.... :-P |
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Leslie:
Lovely ... a realistic portrait of Autumn day. I would like something in between the two examples. Maybe some small or medium size leaves on border. The large ones are a tad too large IMO. Colors are terrific ... the space dyed (?) fabric is fantastic!! PAT The HairyFacedOnes 'N Me wrote: Many, many thanks to Kellie for doing this for me.... what a gal! Sadly, I am a much better quilter than photographer. It sure doesn't look so "gobsmacky" when reduced to the dulled colors and lack of detail in the pictures. Darn. Darn. Darn. Anyway, you can see it at: http://www.hamiltonpipeband.org/bergerfamily/leslie.htm I haven't decided yet whether to applique' the large leaves on the border, so y'all may tell me what you think. With or without? ;-) |
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