Mosaic - Squaring Up - III

Quilt #111

Third in my theme of “squares” is Mosaic in an analogous colour scheme.

Mosaic

For this quilt, I used some of my own hand dyed egyptian cotton as well as some batik.

The design of three large overlapped squares made up of smaller squares was broken up by a few strips of bright lime green.

 The small squares were fused in place before sandwiching the layers.

Each large square area was quilted with a different design before quilting the background in with a straight grid to mimic the appliqued squares.

close-up of quilting

The binding of diagonal stripes in similar colours adds the finishing touch.

This is the back with the added sleeve and label.

Mosaic - back

quilting on back

label

Have a great day, 

Terry

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Mosaic – Squaring Up III

Description: squares fused to background

Pattern: Original

Size: 22½” x 18¾”

Fabrics: Hand dyed egyptian cotton and batik

Predominant colours: Greenish yellow, green, turquoise, blue, purple

Construction Techniques: one inch squares and one inch strips were fused to background to form the design.

Back: hand egyptian cotton

Batting: warm and natural cotton

Edge finish: double fold french binding

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label: yes

Date completed: 2010

Quilt History: displayed in the 2011 Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilters Guild

Maker: Terry Whyte

Fractured Image - Squaring Up - II

Quilt #110

This is number 2 in my Squaring Up series.

Fractured Image - Squaring Up II

Again, pieces of “Shaving Cream Dyed” Fabric were used.

This is what they looked like before being cut into 2½ “ squares. 

Shaving Cream dyed squares

Shaving Cream dyeing detail

I then stacked four squares, one from each piece and cut them in four on a slight diagonal. I then suffled them like you would in a “Magic Tile” pattern.

The pieces were held in place on my quilt sandwich with dots of glue. I glued and stitched one row of the shuffled squares at a time until all six rows were stitched down.

Shuffled squares 

I went back a kept adding more and more rows of stitching until I was happy with what it looked like.

It was at this point that I realized that my whole outline wa not sitting square on my background but drooped a little on the right side.

I placed a couple of strips of white fabric to see if changing the top and bottom edges would help.  I thought it did, so I cut out the curves.

I chose a hand painted fabric for the binding and sleeve.

Fractured Image - Squaring Up - II back

label

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Have a great day,

Terry

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Fractured Image – Squaring Up II

Description: Small shuffled squares attached by quilting

Pattern: Original

Size: 18” x 22½”

Fabrics: Hand dyed muslin and shaving cream dyed cotton

Predominant colours: Greenish yellow, gold, white, black, brown, blue, dark green

Construction Techniques: Rows of shuffled squares were stitched on the quilt sandwich, in closely quilted vertical lines.

Back: hand painted muslin

Batting: warm and natural cotton

Edge finish: single fold binding

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label: yes

Date completed: 2010

Quilt History: displayed in the 2011 Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilters Guild

Maker: Terry Whyte

Loosey Goosey - Squaring Up - I

Quilt # 109

Loosey Goosey - Squaring Up I

This is the first in a series using “squares” as my theme.

In this quilt, pieces of “Shaving Cream Dyed” Fabric and one blue hand dyed were free cut into more or less squarish shapes.

Shaving Cream and Hand Dyed Fabrics

I sandwiched two pieces of hand dyed orange fabric and then stitched several layers of these squares straight down the centre in rows vertically and horizontally until the background was almost completely covered.

Close-Up

Easy Facing for Small Art Quilt

I cut another piece of the same orange fabric the same size as the quilt, placed it on the front of the quilt and stitched all the way around.

Mark and cut about 1” from the stitch line. Trim corners.

Cutting out centre part of facing

Open up and sew close to the stitch line through the seam allowances as far as you can go towards the corner (about 1”). This helps holding back the facing when turned to the back.

It's the same technique used in dressmaking to make the facings stay flat and neat.

Stitching down facing

Turn cut edge of facing under and hand stitch in place.

Loosey Goosey - Squaring Up I back

This is the back with the added sleeve and label.

Terry

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Loosey Goosey

Description: Small squares attached by quilting

Pattern: Original

Size: 11 ¾” x 13 ¾”

Fabrics: 100% cotton

Predominant colours: Orange, blue, black, white, gold

Construction Techniques: Rows of randomly cut (more or less) squares were stitched on the quilt sandwich. Vertical and horizontal rows were added until the background was almost all covered.

Back: hand dyed muslin

Batting: warm and natural cotton

Edge finish: facing

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label: yes

Date completed: 2010

Quilt History: displayed in the 2011 Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilters Guild

Maker: Terry Whyte

2012 FMQ November Challenge with Sarah Vedeler

This is number 11 in the Free Motion Quilt Challenge at Insights from SewCalGal. 

This month, Sarah Vedeler challenged us with doing spirals in a grid format. I especially like the looks of the small spirals in the grid (mine are 1”). They are also the easiest to make and control shapewise.

Lots of spirals

I have often quilted spirals but always found it difficult covering an area evenly. The spiral variation is a great way of changing the direction of the spiral and moving to different areas.

I thought I would give myself an extra challenge and quilt on satiny fabric. The dark blue is different than the yellow and the white, heavier and not as shiny.

I also experiemented with three different threads:

Superior's Trilobal Polyester (Natural Colors) in gold on the white,

Gutermann 100% Viscose in dark blue on the yellow,

Mettler's Poly Sheen 100% polyester in grey on the blue.

This is what is looked like after blocking before making the pillow.

Lots of fun, thank you Sarah!

Also, Nina Marie has invited me to link up to her Off the Wall Fridays, so check it out, lots of nice art quilts.

Terry

No Time

Quilt # 107

We always seem to be rushing around, trying to, but having  “No Time” to do everything we want to do.

No Time

It's a clock, but...... no hands ...... No Time!

 I made this with the left-over tissue fabric paper from Runner (previous post).

The background was free motion quilted with stippling to which I added lots of words such as:   Race.....Haste.....Hustle....Speed.....Quick.....Action....Go....Hurry and more.

detail

detail

I see I signed my name in the stippling but didn't add a date...... No Time, I guess!

I've now signed & dated the back.

No Time - back

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: No Time

Description: Mixed Media - appliqued paper fabric

Pattern: original

Size: 11½ “ x 15”

Fabrics: 100% cotton and paper fabric

Predominant colours: Black – white polka dots and multi coloured

Construction Techniques: applique

Back: 100% cotton

Batting: ?

Edge finish: Double fold french binding

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label: signed and dated

Date completed: 2007

Maker: Terry Whyte

Runner

Quilt # 107

Runner

At our workshop during our very first meeting of NOFA (Northern Ontario Fibre Artists) way back in March, 2007, Marie demonstrated how to apply tissue paper to fabric to make “paper fabric”. We could then embellish it in any way we wanted.

I chose to stitch different coloured wool and trim across my piece, which was then cut into the shape of a runner.

For the background, I used a piece of hand dyed muslin to which I added frayed strips from the edge of the fabric to represent grass and then a couple of strips of organza to define the road.

frayed edges and organza strips

I made the quilt sandwich and then quilted some wavy line across the whole piece before appliqueing my runner and giving her some wild looking hair and a headband.

crazy hair

I cut the edges of the back fabric in a curvy design, flipped it to the front and zigzagged it down.

back

Next post, I will show what I did with the scraps of paper fabric.

Happy quilting,

Terry

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Runner

Description: Mixed Media - appliqued paper fabric

Pattern: Original

Size: 14½” x 14½”

Fabrics: Hand dyed muslin, organza, tissue paper, wool

Predominant colours: Blue

Construction Techniques: Applique

Back: 100% cotton

Batting: ?

Edge finish: Back folded to front

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: no

Label: no

Date completed: 2007

Maker: Terry Whyte

NOFA Meeting – October 27, 2012

Northern Ontario Fibre Artists had their fall meeting on Saturday, October 27th.

Jane

These are a few of the projects completed and work in progress shared:

Silvia

Jane

Jane

Marie

Karen

Terry

A fun workshop by Jane using Sharpies and alcohol (not the drinking kind) was enjoyed by all.  Here are some results.....what will we do with those???

It was a great day, enjoyed by all.