Purple Flower - Squaring Up - V

Quilt #113

Purple Flower

Purple flower was a monoprint that I made by applying purple, white and gold metallic paint to a piece of glass, actually a 12 “ mirror square, swirled with my fingers and printed on black cotton.

After glueing the fabric to Timtex with 505 adhesive, I added mauve wool by couching and quilting with purple and gold metallic thread.

detail 

I squared up the piece to 10” and then cut it up in 2” squares and appliqued each square to a hand dyed using a free motion zigzag stitch.

I sandwiched the top with a similar hand dyed for the back and quilted between the squares and along the edges with a lot of straight lines using a variegated purple thread'

quilting - bindind

A spotty purple print for the binding and sleeve finished off the quilt.

Purple Flower back

label

Purple is my least favourite colour and I find it hard to work with, but I keep trying.

This #5 of “Squaring Up”, a series using squares as my theme.

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Purple Flower – Squaring Up V

Description: a grid of squares appliqued to a background

Pattern: Original

Size: 17½” x 19”

Fabrics: 100% cotton

Predominant colours: Purple, gold, black

Construction Techniques: Finger painted monoprint on cotton, couching, free motion quilting applique

Back: 100% hand dyed cotton

Batting: warm and natural cotton

Edge finish: double fold french binding

Quilting: Grid lines quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label: yes

Date completed: 2011

Quilt History: displayed in the 2012 Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilters Guild

Maker: Terry Whyte