Seeing Stars

Quilt # 48

Seeing Stars 

Seeing Stars is a reversible Quilt made using Sharon Pederson's technique from her book Two at a Time.

This technique allows you to "quilt" each block individually by using the stitch and flip method on the reverse side of your block.

detail

I made these star blocks (quarter square triangles) many years ago to practice sewing points and they sat  on the shelf for a long time. 

Ohio Star block

I chose to do crazy patchwork on the back side using red scraps.  My rule was that as long as there some red in any value, from lightest pink to darkest red, it was fair game.  

Seeing Stars - Reverse side

Batting was added to the block and the patches placed on the batting, stitching through all layers.  The bobbin thread is what is showing on the star side.

detail

Since I was working with 12" blocks, I chose fairly large pieces. 

Crazy patchwork

I used a dark red print for the sashing strips on the Star side and was fortunate to still have some of the background fabric from the star blocks.  That became my sashing and binding on the crazy patch side, which helped to ties the two sides together.

Sashing and Binding

Quilt Name:  Seeing Stars

Description:  Reversible Quilt 

Pattern: Ohio Star blocks with crazy patchwork on reverse

Size:  49" x 73"

Fabrics:  100% cottons

Predominant colours: All values of red

Construction Techniques:  Piecing and Crazy patchwork (stitch and flip method)

Blocks - quilt-as-you-go and sashed together using Sharon Pederson's technique described in her book Two at a Time.

Batting:  Polyester 

Edge finish: Double fold french binding 

Quilting:  Quilt-as-you-go by stitching and flipping crazy patches.

Quilted by:  Terry Whyte

Sleeve:  No

Label:  No

Date completed: 2008

Quilt History:  Class sample

Maker: Terry Whyte

White on White Sampler

Quilt # 47

White on White Sampler

I always wanted to make a white on white quilt using very subtle variations of white, off-white and beige.

I made all the blocks from Block of the Month patterns offered by our guild probably around 2006.

I designed the quilt on graph paper setting the blocks randomly in a grid of squares.

A one inch border framing the 12” blocks were a good fit for the 3½“ x 3½“ squares.

Starflower

Quilt Name: White on White Sampler

Description: Nine sampler blocks set in a grid of 3½“ x 3½“ background squares.

Background squares

Pattern: Original setting. Some of the blocks names are: Starflower, Tessellated Hydrangeas, Country Wreath,   Card Tricks, Spiderweb

Size: 62” x 76”

Fabrics: 100% cotton

Predominant colours: White, off-white, beige, soft gold

Construction Techniques: Piecing

Back:   Extra-wide 100% cotton – white with gold leaves

Batting:  Hobbs  80-20

Edge finish:  Double fold french binding

Quilting, back, binding

Quilting: Long- armed machine quilted

Quilted by: Marnie Mascioli of Calico Cat Quilting

Sleeve: Yes

Label: No

Date completed: 2007

Quilt History: Displayed at the Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilter's Guild – 2007 Quilt Show

Maker: Terry Whyte

Off-centre log cabin

Quilt # 46

Off-centre log cabin

This is the last quilt from my first binder of Journal Quilts, which I will be glad to put away, as it (the binder) has been hanging around the computer for a long time.

I'm hoping to take more photos of quilts soon, especially of my King size quilts, and I will have to do this outside on the clothesline. My inside board is not large enough.

The trouble is that the sun has been shining fairly steadily for a few weeks now and I'm waiting for an overcast day. What a problem to have!! The weather has been gorgeous and I'm enjoyed every minute of it doing lots of outdoors chores.

Have a great day,

Terry

Off-centre log cabin

Challenge: I wanted to try using the log cabin method starting with an uneven hexagon centre.

Technique: I cut strips randomly (3/4” to 1”) wide and stitched and flipped around the hexagon. I tried to avoid placing 2 similar values next to each other.

Quilting: I quilted in the ditch around and around from the centre using invisible thread on the top and red thread on the back. I then added a swirl of leaves using a decorative stitch and lime green thread.

Edges: A couple of rows of zigzag in lime green thread.

back

Back: Left-over pieced squares from another project.

Conclusions: I would like to try this method to represent a sun or other round or oval object in a pieced quilt. I really can't imagine making a bed size quilt from this technique but Mrs. Dyer did.

Mrs. Dyer's quilt c. 1940 

Inspiration: From Quilter's Newsletter Jan/Feb 2007, a quilt made my Mrs. Dyer of Perth, c.1940.

Date Made: March 24, 2007

Maker: Terry Whyte

NOFA meeting September, 2011

The Northern Ontario Fibre Artists met on September 24th.

Marie

Our area enjoyed a very beautiful summer this year and most of us enjoyed it to the utmost, spending a lot of time gardening, with family, at the cottage, and traveling and not so much doing fibre arts.


However, a few pieces did manage to get accomplished with thread painting seeming to be a favourite for summer projects.


We spent the afternoon making mono prints from finger paintings  and printing with hand drawn foam stamps.  Hope to see some of these return as finished projects.


Here's are some of the projects that were brought in.

  

Silvia's Monochromatic Round Robin

Marie's Monochromatic Round Robin

Marnie's Fearless Designs experiment

Jane

Jane

Terry

Karen

Terry

Have a great day!

Terry

Feathers and Swirls

Quilt #45

Challenge: Quilting feathers.

Techniques: I chose an Helen Squire pattern that was published in the American Quilter. The name of the pattern is Joyce.

Quilt Page 1 - front

Quilt Page 1 - I drew the outline of the pattern onto my quilt sandwich and quilted using Sulky Rayon 30 wt variegated thread on the top and a Signature cotton/polyester in the bobbin. The background was a combination of straight line and stippling.

Quilt Page 2 - front

Quilt Page 2 – On this quilt I decided to use the same thread (Sulky Rayon 40 wt) in top and bobbin and eliminate the straight lines

Conclusions:

Quilt Page 1 - back

Quilt #1 - It was almost impossible to stop the bobbin thread from showing on top. Adjusting the tension just transfered the problem to the back.

The variegated thread on the front was not a good choice for this kind of design, where there was  a lot of backtracking.

Quilt Page 2 - back

Quilt #2 –Much happier with the same thread on the top and the bottom and prefer the plain stippling background,without straight lines.

I especially like the looks of the rayon thread on the hand dyed fabric on the back, except where there is a built-up of thread.

Thread choice is important to the look you want to achieve.


Date Made:  March 17, 2007


Maker:  Terry Whyte

Have a great day,

Terry

Circles

Quilt # 44

Circles 

This was Experiment #2 with painted fusible web.

A lot of “What Ifs”.

In a previous journal page, Topsy Turvy, I used fabric paint on a paper-backed fusible.

So, what if I use craft acrylic paint instead of fabric paint.

What if, I paint directly on fusible web that isn't paper backed.

What if, I use tulle instead of organza.

What if, I remove some of the tulle after quilting.

There's always more what ifs.

Challenge: To see how craft acrylic paint would react on a no-back fusible web.

Techniques: The acrylic paint was watered down and lightly painted onto “Jiffy Fuse Fabric Joiner”. 

Dried in sun about one hour.

Cut out circles and arranged on background.

Also cut up bits into confetti and dropped randomly on quilt.

Covered with parchment paper & ironed lightly, if ironed too long the web will be shiny.

Wait for fabric to cool to remove parchment paper or fusible web might lift off.

The 2 darker gold circles have 2 layers of web.

Quilting: Made quilt sandwich and covered front with beige tulle and stitched around circles and stippled the background.

Removed the tulle from circles using seam ripper.

Edges: Zigzagged stitch

Back: Left-over rail fence blocks  

back

Conclusions:  I learned a lot about handling painted fusible web as an embellishment and have made several small landscape quilts and taught classes about this technique.

The confetti doesn't show well here because of busy background, but I think could be used effectively.

The only draw back is that the quilt cannot be ironed ever (without parchment paper)  and would probably not be washable. A technique for Wall or Art Quilts only.

Date Made – February 24, 2007

Maker – Terry Whyte

Have a great day,

Terry

3-D Star

Quilt #43

Back

Challenge: The challenge for this quilt was to see if I could create a 3-d effect using satin stitch.

Techniques: I drew the design on paper, cut out to use as templates. After cutting the shapes, I fuse them to my background.

I satin stitched with off-white thread and narrow (2.0) stitch on “light side” and a wider (2.5) stitch and black thread for the “dark” side

Quilting: Assembled quilt sandwich and quilted with invisible nylon thread on outside of white lines and on the inside of the black lines to see if that would give more a 3-D effect.

I mixed a white and a green thread for the background swirls and black and green for the dark.

Edges: Finished edges with stitch # 27 on my Husqvarna.

3-D Star

Back: Pieced squares left-over from another project. 

Conclusions: I find that the centre area looks somewhat 3-D but not so sure the points do. Perhaps wider dark satin-stitch????

Date Made – February 17, 2007

Maker – Terry Whyte

Have a great day,

Terry