I’ve completed my latest quilt Urban Sunset. In this earlier post I talked about creating the quilt top, and all that was left was adding the quilting.
Here’s the completed top.
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Creating the Quilt Top for “Urban Sunset”
In this earlier post I talked about creating the fabric I used in my quilt Urban Sunset. My original plan was to use the fabric as-is and create several whole cloth quilts. However, the more I looked at the printed fabrics (shown below), the more I thought I’d need to cut them up.
I wanted this fabric to be the majority of the quilt, and I decided to use circles since I was looking for an abstract sunset over a city. Continue reading
Two In-Progress Quilts
I have two quilts that I’ve been working on for a while. The tops for both are complete, and I’ve made good progress quilting one of them. There are a lot of similarities between these quilts–both use fabric that I designed digitally in Photoshop and Illustrator and that I had printed at Spoonflower.com; both combine those fabrics with my hand-dyed fabrics; and both use a circle motif.
Over the next posts, I’ll detail the process I went through in creating these quilts along with the techniques I used to put them together. Continue reading
Inspiration Photos for My Latest Quilt
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I’m working on a new quilt, and the inspiration for it is the scenery of northern Wisconsin. A while ago we spent some time near Hayward Wisconsin (home of the Lumberjack World Championships), and I loved the peaceful lakes with … Continue reading
Urban Sunset Revisited
In a recent post I showed how I created “Urban Sunset”–a repeat design for a fabric design contest. I really liked the design and thought I’d try t
o create a non-repeating design that I could print on fabric and then turn into a whole cloth quilt. My plan is to create a design that’s about a yard wide so I can have it printed at Spoonflower on a full yard of fabric.
Here’s the ‘brick’ brush I created in Photoshop. It’s slightly different from my earlier post in that I cleaned up the edges a bit. I used only this brush in all the designs.
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Creating Moonstruck — Finally Finished
Creating Moonstruck — Accurate Curved Piecing for People Who Aren’t Precise
In my previous post I showed how I selected all the fabrics for Moonstruck. Here they are all pinned to the pattern template on my design wall.
The next step is to sew it all together. Continue reading
Creating Moonstruck — Picking the Right Colors
In my previous post I showed how I developed the final quilt pattern (below), including the order of piecing, for Moonstruck. On the quilt pattern, I numbered each piece and added registration marks along the seams so that I’ll be able to line up the pieces when I sew them.
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Creating Moonstruck — Making the Design into Something I Could Sew
In my previous post I showed how I developed the design (below) for Moonstruck.
With the overall design done, I next had to figure out how I could make this into a quilt top. My plan was to use the rust-dyed fabric in the smaller circles (the Moons). For the larger arcs, I planned to use an alternating green and blue gradation of over-dyed rust fabric–from light in the upper left to dark in the lower right. The Moons were the focus and the arcs the background. Continue reading
Creating Moonstruck — Initial Design
My quilt Moonstruck recently returned home after a long trip with the Rust-Tex Collection, including its debut at the Spring International Quilt Festival in Chicago (2010) and a visit to England for the Festival of Quilts (photo from the show below, Moonstruck is the blue and green one).
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