Flying Santa

Quilt Documentation #181

Flying Santa

I bought this little panel several years ago. I thought it would be fun to make as my husband is a pilot.

Hand printed panel

Last year, I added the border and sandwiched the layers and never got any further.

So this year, I quilted it and added a fused binding and a couple of little tabs to hang it from.

binding

It measures 12” x 15”.

Merry Christmas to all!

Terry

Yes You Can Do it Sampler

Quilt Documentation # 163

More quilt documentation, this one from year 2000.

Yes You Can Do It Sampler

This quilt was started in 1999 for a guild project on how to make a quilt from start to finish. The design was in a magazine at the time. Sorry, do not remember which. The progession each month went like this: Fan Block, Pieced Block, Applique, Lattice and Cornerstones, Borders, Quilt Sandwich, Quilting, Binding, and Show & Tell.

Fan Block

Pieced Block

Applique

back

label

Borders & Binding

Linking up to Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday

Happy Quilting

Terry 

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Yes You Can Do It Sampler

Description: 3 x 3 pieced and appliqued blocks in lattice setting

Pattern: from magazine ???

Size: 40” x 40”

Fabrics: 100% cotton

Predominant colours: Maroon, green, white, gold

Construction Techniques: Applique, piecing

Back: cotton

Batting:

Edge finish: Double fold french binding

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label: yes

Date completed: 2000

Maker: Terry Whyte

Fantasy Garden

Quilt Documentation # 162

Fantasy Garden - Terry Whyte

 I started blogging in order to document as many as my quilts as I could.

While putting away my quilts from my Waterloo Guild trunk show, I decided to sort out any quilts that had not been documented on my blog.

I was surprised that I had not blogged about the very first challenge the Northern Ontario Fibre Artists undertook.

Fantasy Garden is my quilt from the Round Robin Challenge, see below, and this is how it progressed:

Background onto which I added printer photos of some of my garden flowers

After three members added embellishments 

When I got it back I added a spider web and then added the back and batting this way:

Batik for the back with markings for size of finished quilt

Corners stitched and turned to front

Batting inserted inside the folds

Stitched the top over the "binding" edges

I then couched a piece of fuzzy wool just inside the raw frayed edges of the top.

After all the quilting was done, I added a spider and the dragonfly.

Fantasy Garden - Terry Whyte

NOFA Round Robin Embellished Collage

The idea was introduced in September, 2007 and the quilts were completed in 2008.

Background fabric could be pieced, appliqued, painted, dyed or left as is.

The owner of the background would add something to it in the form of:

• applique
• stamp
• beads or other embellishments
• stitch
• numbers or lettering
• yarn, ribbon, thread, etc
• paint
• add colour with crayons, Shiva Paint Stiks, markers, ink, etc.
• Add photos
• anything else you could think of

The background fabric would be passed along from one member to the other to embellish further until it had gone to each member.

The owner would then add more, or not, and finish the quilt in any way they wished.

These are the other quilts made in the challenge:

Spy......ral - Jane Hughes

Dancing in the Moonlight - Karen Pilch

Sunflowers - Silvia Bos

Pond Life - Kit Ormsby

Midnight Garden - Marnie Mascioli

Nature at Dawn - Marie Black

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

Happy Quilting

Terry 

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Fantasy Garden

Description: Embellished Collage

Pattern: Original

Size: 21½” x 28½”

Fabrics: 100% cotton

Predominant colours: Green, red, yellow

Construction Techniques: Applique, photo transfer, beading, thread painting, and more

Back: batik

Batting: bamboo

Edge finish: Back turned to front

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label: yes

Date completed: 2008

Maker: Terry Whyte

Ribboned Moon

ART PROMPT - #10 – Use tulle

Ribboned Mood -- In my mind I call it "Tulle Time"

See previous post here.

This quilt has been finished for a while but I just have not had time to blog about it.

I drew the design on the back, then covered the front with one piece of tulle at a time and stitched from the back and trimmed.

design drawn on back (pencil)

I then added trapunto (2 layers) it's a little more puffy than I wanted. Sorry, forgot to take photos of trapunto.

Here it is before trapunto and quilting

Add caption

Blocked (wet)

Blocked - wet

Dry and  trimmed

Dry - trimmed 

I like this orientation better, but it can be hung either way.

The back complete with hanging slat and label

back

Quilt measures 38" x 15".

My “plan” has changed again! I like to call it a “plan” rather than rules. I don't seem to follow rules very well.

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

See you next time,

Terry

NEXT ART PROMPT - #11 – Add string

HERE'S MY PLAN

One prompt, one project (taking as long as required to finish the project)

It's OK to finish or use a previously started project (UFO) as a starting point.

Make something creative.

Use any Media.

Blog about the project.

Pick another prompt once the project is done.

CQA Best of Show

A phone call last night, from Marnie, who was attending the CQA National Juried Show in St Catherines made my day!

The Northern Ontario Fibre Artists (NOFA) are very excited and honoured to have won Best of Show in the Canadian Quilters Association National Juried Show.

Here is our entry “Seven Create”. It measures 10 feet by 55 inches.

Seven Create

The members of NOFA are Marie Black, Silvia Bos, Jane Hughes, Marnie Mascioli, Kit Ormsby, Karen Pilch and Terry Whyte.

I blogged about “Seven Create” here if you are interested about how this project started and progressed to completion.

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

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Quilting,

Terry

ART PROMPT # 5 - Add an image transfer

I see you!

I see you!

Prompt # 5 was to add an image transfer.

I wanted to transfer an image from my computer to fabric, using my inkjet printer.

The only image transfer I ever tried, a long time ago, was using a purchased transfer paper and it was the kind that came out quite rubbery on fabric.

I googled “image transfer” and lots of different methods came up. I gathered that you basically needed a shiny surface of some kind, to print on, such as wax paper, freezer paper, transparencies. Some of the things I tried would not go through my printer, some would go through but not print. I finally had some success using a transparency (clear plastic sheet) but it had marks on it and those showed up on my first transfer.

I looked for something similar to use and found this:

self-adhesive laminating sheets

And this is what it looked like when it came out of the printer:

printer ink on laminating sheet

The first picture is using the transparency and the second my laminating sheet.

I thought I should be able to get a better image and painted gesso, Mod Podge,  and Fabric painting medium directly on my fabric and let it dry and tried again.  The results were all slightly different but still not what I wanted.

transfer on gesso - mod podge - fabric paint medium

I went back to plain fabric.  This one is transferred on good quality cotton.  

on good quality cotton

And this is my best result, on silk.

transfer on silk

Originally, I was going to use the best transfer and make a postcard, so all my prints are 4” x 6”.

But then, I thought it was kind of interesting to see the differences and decided to make a little wall hanging so it looked like a window with the faces looking in (or out).  The silk is in the middle of the bottom row. 

I see you!

And one transfer ended up a little off kilter,

off kilter

 so it became the postcard.

postcard

It was fun trying something new and there are lots of other ways to transfer images....

The photo of my granddaughter is one that I had previously played around with in Photoshop.

Linking up to Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday.

See you next week,

Terry

NEXT ART PROMPT - #6 – Use rubber stamps

HERE'S MY PLAN

One prompt, one project (taking as long as required to finish the project)

It's OK to finish a previously started project (UFO)

Make something creative.

Use any Media.

Blog about the project every Friday.

Pick a prompt for the next week once the project is done.

ART PROMPT # 4 (using any kind of ink)

Birds on Halifax Boardwalk - work in Progress 

work in progress - sandwiched, ready for quilting

Wow! Friday already.

This has been a really busy week and my project is not finished.

The rules are changing already. I don't want to make something just for the sake of making it by using the art prompts.

#1 - I want to enjoy what I do, so the project for one prompt may be the same for 2 or 3 or more weeks, whatever it takes. I will post Work in Progress every Friday until done.

#2 – I can finish a UFO, it doesn't have to be a new project each time.

This week's prompts was using ink and I had this project already painted with Tsukineko inks.

This was a project I started in a class with Pat Blair in 2012.  See here  and here.  

painted during workshop - this was my second project

I finished the ink painting after getting home and it has just been sitting around since.

painted and trimmed

I added a little skinny border in orange and then auditioned more border fabrics.

auditioning for borders - didn't like this (see borders above)

I now have sandwiched it and it's ready for quilting.

This is my original photo. I don't know these birds name. Anyone?

anyone know what these birds are called?????

See you next week,

Linking to Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday

NEXT WEEK'S ART PROMPT - # 4 – USE ANY KIND OF INK

New Rules

One prompt, one project (taking as long as required to finish the project)

It's OK to finish a previously started project (UFO)

Make something creative.

Use any Media.

Blog about the project every Friday.

Pick a prompt for the next week once the project is done.

ANYONE WANT TO PLAY ALONG????

IF YOU DO:

• BLOG ABOUT
• LEAVE A NOTE IN MY COMMENTS ON MY FRIDAY POST – INCLUDING YOUR BLOG ADDRESS – (of the actual blog post, please)

OR

• IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A BLOG, SEND ME A PICTURE OF YOUR PROJECT BEFORE THE FOLLOWING FRIDAY AND I WILL POST IT ON MY BLOG – todayinkenogami@gmail.com

Let's get creative,

Terry

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