Sunday, 30 January 2011

Sparkly quilting


I really enjoy creating quiltnig designs, but just marking this quilt took much longer than the piecing! I duplicated the segments of the quilting design and cut and stuck them together, then traced them onto the quilt top using a sewline ceramic pencil and my lightbox.


Once these designs were quilted, I proceeded to spend ages dithering over the background quilting pattern - I don't want it to take away from the fancy designs, but it's hard finding something dense enough to match what I've already done, and blend in with all the different colours.

5 comments:

Vicki W said...

I am loving seeing this develop!

Sharyn Mallow Woerz said...

Beautiful work! Great job, Sharyn

Austysmum said...

I think I need to come and see your set up for tracing onto fabric and check out the ceramic pencil. It seems I follow a line a lot easier than freestyling! Great job on the quilting too, it's going to be gorgeous.

What Comes Next? said...

that is gorgeous Emma! What kind of thread did you use?

Sue Daurio said...

oh it's all in the quilting. And the quilting really made this a show stopper! Fantastic quilt. I just love your work. When I grow up I want to be able to quilt like you.