Cruising

Quilt Documentation #155

Cruising

This quilt was started in a workshop with Sylvia Pippen while on a quilting cruise a year ago. For me, it's a cruising memory but those little fish and dolphins really seem to be cruising as well, hence the name.

My main interest in taking this class was to learn sashiko which I enjoyed thoroughly.  Japanese Sashiko thread is made of loosely twisted,  long-staple cotton and is very strong.

For the sashiko circles, I used an indigo dyed piece from one of our NOFA workshop experiment.

cotton dyed in indigo dye bath - sashiko stitched

However, applique is a different matter. I did learn a different applique technique, which glues the edges down prior to stitching. It made the stitching easier for sure but hasn't turned me in anymore of a hand applique fan. I keep trying, maybe something will click.

Fins are from a silk marbled in a G&S Dyes workshop many years ago. 

The process:

I decided not to buy a kit but use my own fabrics instead. I hand dyed the background (and the back) especially for this piece. It is painted with liquid dyes (Procion H).

The dolphins were the last applique so look a little better (I think)

I knew I didn't have any “dolphin” fabric so I found and bought some in an Australian quilt shop while on the cruise. 

Dolphin applique - quilting

The rest were hand dyed cottons and marbled silk from my stash.

fish applique - quilting

Sylvia hand quilts after all her applique is done. Since I don't hand quilt, I added the borders to the background and free motioned quilted prior to doing the applique.

back of Cruising - needs label

The pattern for this quilt is in Sylvia's book Paradise Stitched and is loaded with beautiful pictures and instructions of her gorgeous quilts.

Linking to Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday and The Needle and Thread Network.

Happy Quilting,

Terry

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name:  Cruising

Description:  Hand dyed, appliqued fish and sashiko stitched circles

Pattern: Sylvia Pippen from her book Paradise Stitched

Size: 27" x 43"

Fabrics: 100% cotton, silk

Predominant colours:  Blue, green

Construction Techniques:Hand dyed, applique, sashiko

Back: 100% hand dyed 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:

Date completed: Dec. 2013

Inspiration: Started in workshop with Sylvia Pippen (her pattern)

Quilt History: 

Maker: Terry Whyte

Renewal

Quilt Documentation # 149

Renewal

Renewal was recently juried into Englehart Area Artists 5^th Annual Juried Art Exhibit, a mixed media show which is on until Oct 27th.

See my other entry Southwest Spirit here.

Unlike Southwest Spirit, this piece went together easily, just the way I envisioned it.

I sun dyed the background during our NOFA week-end retreat in June.

Sun dyeing

Even though the sun did not co-operate much all week-end, we finally did get a few hours of sunshine and some results, mostly from the blades of grass and the salt.

The picture was taken when the fabric was still quite damp, it dried a lot lighter.

Grasses and salt, leaves were removed before taking photo (oops missed one!)

When I saw the rays, I immediately thought of a forest with the sun shining through.

This is what the "sun rays" looked like before quilting

rays from grass blades

and once the whole upper area was quilted.  

quilted

I added some tulle to darken the "ground" area and quilted with a more spiky stitch to represent grass. 

I also added more "sun rays" using organza.

Organza sun rays

 two types of sun rays

I cut tree shapes from Lutradur, painted them with acrylics and stitched them on using invisible thread.

All that was left to do was add some shadows under the trees and it was ready for blocking.

detail of shadows

 I wrapped it on an artist canvas.

Wrapped edge

Renewal- front

back of frame and label

Renewal measures 18" x 24".

Linking up to Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday and The Needle and Thread Network WIP Wednesday.

Happy quilting,

Terry

Ghost Ship – Ciudad de Inca

Quilt # 138

This is a quilt I finished recently.

Ghost Ship - Ciudad de Inca

A little history

In 1984, my sixteen year old son, Glenn won a one-week trip on a tall ship on Lake Ontario through the Ontario Lottery Second Chance draw. The draw was for holders of losing tickets, and the Ontario Lottery awarded 100 cruises for people aged 14 to 18. Thank you Uncle Don, who kept putting his nephews names on his losing lottery tickets.

from my scrapbook

At that time this ship was the oldest wooden square-rigger still afloat. It was launched in 1858 in Barcelona, Spain and used as a trans-Atlantic cargo ship.

A few years ago, Glenn and his wife Sue, were in Halifax and the tall ships were in port. Glenn was quite excited to revisit the Ciudad de Inca but could not find her.

After doing some research they found that she had changed name (yet again, see below) and had actually been wrecked on the coast of Cornwall in 1995.

From Wikipedia:

Career (UK)
Name:	Maria Asumpta
Builder:	Nicholas Pida
Launched:	Badalona, Spain, 1858
Christened:	Maria Asumpta
Renamed:	Pepita (1930s) Ciudad de Inca (1953) Maria Asumpta (1988)
Fate:	wrecked at Padstow, Cornwall, 30 May 1995

This quilt was made for him as a memory keepsake and who knows, her ghost may still be sailing the Atlantic.

I took lots of photos as I made this quilt showing my process and progress.

I hand dyed the fabric by letting the dye wick up the fabric that was tied up.  The dark area (top of quilt) was the standing in the dye pot.

Dyed fabric and stitching for trapunto

Back showing trapunto batting

Insert for reversible sleeve

Quilt info at top of sleeve instead of label

Top of quilt stitched down

Starting second coat of white Tsukineko ink on sails and ship

Auditioning binding

detail

detail

detail

Reverse side

detail

detail

Linking up to WIP Wednesday at The Needle and Thread Network and Nina Marie's Off the Wall Friday.

Happy Quilting,

Terry

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Ghost Ship - Ciudad de Inca

Description: Reversible hand-dyed, painted and quilted

Pattern: Original design (ship from photograph)

Size: 20” x 26”

Fabrics: 100% cotton

Predominant colours: Blue, white, black on reverse side

Construction Techniques: Hand dyed by wicking, trapunto, painting with white Tsukineko ink and free motion quilted.

Back: 100% black 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: reversible sleeve

Label: On top edge of quilt as part of sleeve

Date completed: 2013

Inspiration: for memory keepsake and photo of ship

Maker: Terry Whyte

Tango

Quilt #117

Tango

Tango is an original design and came about as a result of a doodle on a small scrap of paper. It is a zentangle in fabric and thread with a lot of the quilting designs inspired by Leah Day.

The background fabric is my own hand dyed with a pieced inner border of black printed fabrics. The back of the quilt is a hand woven Thai silk.

Top and silk for back

After enlarging my design, I copied it onto my prepared background and stitched the outline. All the designs in the leaves were free motion quilted on a domestic sewing machine.

Both the top and back were very distorted after quilting the centre. 

distorted top

distorted back

At this point I had to block the quilt in order to be able to do the background quilting.  I blocked it two more times, once after quilting the background and again after the binding was on.

ready for background quilting 

Quilt blocked after background was quilted

I used Wonderfil Razzle thread to outline the design and Sulky Sliver Metallic for the rays in the background.

Here are some close-up of quilting:

The undersides of the leaves were painted with a mixture of Fabric Painting Medium and Jacquard Powdered Pigment in silver.

Tango - back

It measures 28” x 40”.

Creativ Festival - 2012

I entered this quilt in the Designer Style Challenge at the Creativ Festival being held in Toronto in October, 2012

Tango was a semi-finalist in the Quilt category. The Theme was “Celebration” with a touch of silver because it was the Creativ Festival's 25^th SILVER anniversary. Otherwise the challenge was open ended to encourage creativity.

Tango is presently with Janome Canada Ltd., the sponsor for the Quilting category, for one year to display and promote the pieces and their respective designers.

Label on sleeve

Taken at Creativ Festival (Oct 2012)

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Tango

Description: free motion quilting on bordered background

Pattern: original – stitched zentangle

Size: 28” x 40”

Fabrics: 100% hand dyed cotton, black commercial print

Predominant colours: orange, black

Construction Techniques: pieced inner border - free motion quilting

Back: Thai silk

Batting: wool

Edge finish: single fold binding

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label: on sleeve

Date completed: 2012

Quilt History: Semi finalist in Designer Challenge at Creativ Festival 2012

Maker: Terry Whyte

Seashell Cosmos

Quilt # 105

Seashell Cosmos

This is the photo that I took in my garden and the inspiration for this quilt.

seashell cosmos photo

Seashell Cosmos was an experiment using a technique that I believe is called Appliquilt.

Here's a couple of close-ups:

applique using blindstitch

All the pieces are fused to the background, then the quilt sandwich is made and the applique is stitched in place and the whole thing is quilted at the same time.

backgroung quilting and binding

The quilting design is from Leah Day called Roots.

back of quilt

quilting on back

 I use ExtravOrganza for a lot of my labels on wallquilts,  it is attached to paper that goes through the printer.   Just print, remove and iron on.

ExtravOrganza label 

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Seashell Cosmos

Description: applique

Pattern: original from own photo

Size: 13” x 18”

Fabrics: own hand dyed 100% cotton

Predominant colours: Green and pink

Construction Techniques: Appliquilt – fused and stitched as the quilting is being done

Back: own hand dyed 100% cotton

Batting: Warm and Natural cotton

Edge finish: Single fold binding using commercial print

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label: yes

Date completed: 2010

Maker: Terry Whyte