Quilting Cruise Memories

Quilt Documentation # 136

Here's a piece I just finished.   I was very lucky to be able to take a workshop with Sue Spargo while a quilting cruise in New Zealand and Australia, this past January. The classes were held on the days at sea, so we were still able to partake in all the excursions while in port.

Quilting Cruise Memories

This was really out of the box for me. I had never worked with wool and although I had a little knowledge of some embroidery stitches it was a real eye opener to learn where and how to apply them to the applique design, as well as learn many new stitches.

These are close-ups of the blocks:

Block #1

Block #1 - before quilting

Block #1 - quilted

Block #1 - detail & lady bug

Sue showed us how to make lady bugs and bumble bees.  Then I copy my roommate's caterpiller on Block #3.

Block #2

Block #2 - before quilting

Block #2 - quilted

Block #2 - detail - bumble bee and red leather circles

Block #3

Block #3 - before quilting 

Block #3 - quilted

Block #3 -detail &  caterpiller 

The border is from a piece of wool that my husband brought back from Peru.  I believe it is Llama wool (which I felted for this).

I was not sure how to finish this quilt but I know Sue uses cotton in the blocks as well as backing and binding. I used a cotton print for the back and decided to face it with the same fabric instead of adding a binding. Little triangles in the corners are used to insert a slat for hanging and one could be placed at the bottom to weigh it down if it was needed.

Quilting Cruise Memories - back

label

I really need to thank my roommate, Susan who so generously let me “shop” in her wonderful stash of hand dyed wool and threads, as well as Sue Spargo who shared all her supplies with everyone. Thank you Sue and Sue.

I have already used a lot of the embroidery stitches in another project and really, really  liked working with wool and will definitely be using it in more quilts.

I can see a lot more hand work in my future.

Linking up to The Needle and Thread Network.

Happy Quilting,

Terry

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Quilting Cruise Memories

Description: Folk Art Wool Applique and Embroidery

Pattern: Sue Spargo patterns

Size: 9” x 30¼”

Fabrics: Wool, cotton, leather, wool, cotton and silk threads, beads

Predominant colours: Turquoise, lemon, khaki, red

Construction Techniques: wool applique, embroidery

Back: 100% cotton

Batting: wool

Edge finish: facing

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes (corners to insert rod)

Label: yes

Date completed:2013

Inspiration: from a workshop with Sue Spargo while on a quilting cruise in New Zealand and Australia.

Maker: Terry Whyte

Belles Bouteilles

Quilt Documentation # 135

Belles Bouteilles

This was an exercise in transparency using organza. It is a little tricky to work with as it is very slippery and also frays easily.

applique detail

I was able to get the shadows by layering the organza which was fused and quilted to the bargello background before sandwiching the batting and backing. Each bottle was appliqued with 2 rows of stitching and then cut out.

applique/quilting detail

The background was quilted with many different designs. This is one of my favourite way of quilting backgrounds to add interest and more fun for me to do. Can you tell I get bored doing the same thing over and over?

quilting

quilting

The highlights were painted on, using silver metallic paint.

painted highlight

This quilt was juried into Quilt Canada 2010 in Calgary, Alberta.

Belles Bouteilles - back, labels

The bargello had been made for another project that never got finished, so I thought it would worked for a background for this project, however......

The judges' critiques:

All three judges thought that the transparency effect was achieved successfully and they liked the quilting. However, one judge thought that the “diagonal line through top of two bottles is disturbing to the eye” and another thought that the “bargello overpowers bottles”.

Good lesson learned! Watch your backgrounds.

I am linking to The Needle and Thread Network, a website featuring Canadian fibre artists and Nina Marie's Off the Wall Friday. Go check out the wonderful fibre art!

Happy quilting,

Terry

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Belles Bouteilles

Description: Organza Applique on Bargello background

Pattern: Original

Size: 17½” x 22½”

Fabrics: 100% cotton- Organza

Predominant colours: Blue, green, beige, gold, orange, brown

Construction Techniques: Bargello, machine applique

Back: batik

Batting: cotton

Edge finish: single fold ¼” binding

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label: yes

Date completed: 2009

Quilt History: Displayed at the 2011 Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilters' Guild Show, at Museum of Northern History

Maker: Terry Whyte

Circle Squared

Quilt Documentation # 134

I made this quilt in this orientation, and it just never “felt” right. Not balanced.

Circle Squared

So while playing with my photos, I flipped it around with the dark at the bottom and I like that a lot better.

Circle Squared - Rotated

What do you think?

I love working with scraps and I like making crazy patchwork and see what I can come up with.

My scraps are sorted by colour......I know, a little obsessive!

So, I grabbed my “Orange” basket and sorted into lights and darks.

"light crazypatch"

"dark crazypatch"

In order to get this to work, I cut a paper pattern, the size I wanted the quilt to be, and drafted my circular design. I then marked it off in a 4” grid and cut it apart.

curved piecing

After foundation piecing light and dark 4” squares, the squares were assemble using curved piecing, just like you would piece Drunkards Path.

It is echo quilted following the centre line using a cotton variegated thread on the front and Razzle from Wonderfil on the back.

quilting and binding

The back was pieced to line up with the front. Even the sleeve and binding follow the curve. Too bad, I think I now have to make another sleeve so I can hang it the way I like it.

Circle Squared - back

back - quilting detail

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Happy Quilting,

Terry

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Circle Squared

Description: Crazy-patch

Pattern: original

Size: 24” x 24”

Fabrics: 100% cotton

Predominant colours: Orange

Construction Techniques: 4” crazy patch squares

Back: 100% cotton

Batting:

Edge finish: Double fold french binding

Quilting: Quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label: no

Date completed: 2008

Quilt History: Display at the 2008 Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilters' Guild Show, at Museum of Northern History.

Maker: Terry Whyte

Country Heart 2

Quilt Documentation # 133

  

Country Hearts 2

This was all about playing with raw edge applique. I stitched scraps to a piece of muslin, leaving all the raw edges exposed. Nine hearts were cut from that and applied to squares again leaving the raw edges. 

Free form heart

In this top, I also wanted using different types of fabric designs together - hand dyed, a design of small squares in a grid, stripes and plaids.

The seam between the inner and outer borders was also stitched backwards to expose the seam allowance.

Borders, quilting, binding

What was left of the panel of stitched scraps was used in the middle of the back of the quilt.  Even the sleeve was pieced from left-overs from the front of the quilt.

I seemed determined to make use every bit of those left -over fabrics from the quilt top.

Country Hearts 2 - back

label

Happy Quilting,

Terry

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Country Hearts 2

Description: Nine raw edge appliqued heart, sashed

Pattern: original

Size: 29” x 29”

Fabrics: 100% cotton

Predominant colours: Burgundy, blue

Construction Techniques: raw edge applique, pieced

Back: 100% cotton

Batting: cotton

Edge finish: Double fold french binding

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label: yes

Date completed: 2002

Quilt History: Display at 2003 Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilters' Guild Show, at Museum of NorthernHistory

Maker: Terry Whyte

Blue Butterfly

Quilt Documentation # 132

This quilt is the result of one of Northern Ontario Fibre Artist's mini workshop. Whenever our group meets, one of more of our members demonstrates a technique or application and then everyone gets to play and experiment.

Blue Butterfly

The print in this quilt was made by squirting acrylic or fabric paint between plastic page covers that had been cut open on 3 sides. The cover was closed and the paint was spread around by rubbing the plastic. The cover was opened and two black squares of fabric were placed back to back inside the cover for a mirror image.

I cut out the shape and fused the 7½” painted squares side by side on black printed fabric.

The black at the edge of the wings and the head were cut out of ultra suede.

Ultra suede wing edges

 I used the little semi circular pieces that I cut out of the wings on the centre of the body.

Quilted body following the lines in the paint and bits of ultra suede

The quilting was free motioned using black, grey and gold thread and a row of heavy gold thread was hand stitched at the edge of the wings.

Blue Butterfly - back (label and sleeve)

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Happy Quilting,

Terry

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Blue Butterfly

Description: paint - applique

Pattern: original

Size: 19” x 16”

Fabrics: 100% cotton, ultra suede

Predominant colours: blue, green gold, black

Construction Techniques: fused and quilted

Back: 100% cotton

Batting: ?

Edge finish: Double fold french binding, top stitched using decorative machine stitch

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label: yes

Date completed: 2010

Inspiration:

Quilt History: Displayed at the Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilters' Guild - 2011 Quilt Show

Maker: Terry Whyte

Country Hearts 1

Quilt Documentation # 131

Country Hearts 1

This quilt was made using Karla Alexander's pattern Crazy Hearts from her book "Stack The Deck!  Crazy Quilts in 4 Easy Steps".

I like this method of making crazy patch. Stack, slice, shuffle and sew.

detail

The purple and red hearts were machine appliqued using a blanket stitch.

I quilted the top using a variegated thread in spiral and stipple design.

signed and dated

The binding was made up of strips of the crazy patch fabrics sewed together and the back is one of my hand dyed muslin.

Country Hearts 1 - back

Crountry Hearts 1 measures 27” x 27” and was made 2002.

Curvy Paths

Quilt Documentation # 130

Curvy Paths

This is a Drunkard's Path variation, in reds and blacks, to which I added a red border and then appliqued a dog tooth border using a blind hem stitch.

drunkard's path blocks

dog tooth border

In 2009 and 2010, I followed along with Leah Day's The Free Motion Quilting Project.  After making many little 4” squares, I wanted to actually use several different stitches in one quilt.

Curvy Paths - back

I outlined the curvy paths from the front of the quilt and then flipped it over and quilted it from the back. This was mainly because the top was so busy, it was hard to concentrate on the quilting designs.

quilting detail

 I alternated silver grey and a gold rayon threads in the “paths” and background. I consider this table topper reversible and have used it as such. Actually, I just may like the back better than the front.

quilting detail

quilting detail

 Most of the quilting designs are Leah Day's with one or two of my own favourites.

All fabrics are 100% cotton, it is bound with a double fold french binding,measures 26” x 26” and was made 2010.

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

Happy Quilting,

Terry