Here is one of the quilts I was working on last week. "White Camellias" was made for the September Surfside Quilters Guild Monthly Mini. The flowers and leaves are cut from a printed fabric, fused, and machine stitched around the edges.
White Camellias Del Thomas 2018 21.25"W X 22.5"L
Cotton fabric, batting, thread. Fused, machine appliqued, and quilted.
Other than the quilting and the zig-zag edge finish everything is fused together.
Every quilt I make has a bird in it somewhere - appliqued, cut from commercial fabric, quilted in, drawn with permanent fabric marker. Somehow I squeeze one in somewhere.
The full back of the quilt. The sleeve is hard to see because I made it with netting, a technique I have been experimenting with.
Works good, but it requires more stitching than a cotton fabric sleeve.
The top threads are mostly variegated but basically match the fabric, however the bobbin thread is always black.
The quilt was raffled at the meeting and only made $50. It was won by Joann Bishop.
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3 comments:
this is a wonderful quilt, love the color combination !I try to put a dragonfly in every quilt, Libelle is the German word for dragonfly ;-)
Beautiful colours Del. White Camelias are timely for me. On 19 September we celebrated 125 years since women were first enabled to vote in New Zealand. https://www.hrc.co.nz/news/human-rights-commission-releases-suffrage-125-video/ You might find this interesting. Our spring flowers are blooming beautifully. I read your blog regularly and enjoy the variety of topics, especially your knowledge of quilting. Thanks. Gayle
So glad to have won your beautiful quilt. The camellias are so lovely.
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