Category: Art Quilts

Vicki’s South African Quilt

Spring cleaning my daughter’s home and taking down this wall hanging to give it a good dust . It is one of my most favourite makes , about 11 years old, love these designs from BFC .

I love how this quilt shows how just shades of black  and white can be so much alive! A beautiful choice of fabrics Vicki….Suz

BFC1174 South African Architectural Etchings

Laura’s Cherry Tree

Happy Easter!  You chuckled when I ordered this design, but here’s proof positive that I do love and use the designs I order!  Here’s my take on the Cherry Tree Branch Design, 0528, by Chantell.  It’s a bit whimsical with fantastic colors, 3-D embroidered flowers and 6 lovely little chickadees.  The flowers and chickadees are embroidered on felt, cut out and glued in place to give a dimensional appearance, and each flower has a crystal heat-set in the center.  It’s a happy, quilted and embroidered project that will hang over my living-room couch.  Please forward to Chantell and thank you both for this design.

Until next time,

Laura

I love how Laura added the raised flowers!  They change a nice wall quilt into an Art quilt!

CCQ0528 – QI The Cherri Tree Branch Quilt

Linda Sunny’s Dolphins

Under my embroidery needle–made this for hubby — “stained glass dolphins”. 12 panes embroidered and then sewn together to make the ‘window’. Then I sewed it into a pillow. Beautiful design Suz. Over 100,000 stitches. I.NEED.MORE.THREAD. 😉 Came out nice I think. Hope everyone has a great week.

I’m sure hubby loves it!!! Suz

BFC0664 Stained Glass Dolphins

Colleen’s Windows on the World

Hi Suz, finally the finished products!  I’m reasonably pleased with them but of course there are quite a few “off” pieces.  Hopefully these might not be too evident to an untrained eye.   Many thanks for your help with the Italian window. Colleen

BFC0623 Windows on the World – Italy

BFC0614 Windows on the World – Russia

Donna’s Starry Night

Hi Suz!  I finished the starry night.  Had a bit of trouble lining up that last panel so I eyeballed it with a printed template of the design.  As I progressed the fabric and stabilizer did drawn in so I’m thinking metal hooping might not have been the best way to go. However!!!  I managed to get a pretty decent picture and I love it.  Anyway, I put a batik green/yellow border then the background fabric blue to frame it and you can’t tell there were any puckers!!  Only you and I will know there are any mistakes and I’m not telling!!!  This will be a pillow cover for a VanGogh-fan granddaughter.  I think it’s beautiful!

BFC1829 Large Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh

Suz’ Jewelery

 

I was very much into beading before I started machine Embroidery.  I thought I would show you some of my necklaces – you can see where I started incorporating Free Standing Lace Embroidery into my beadwork!  Experiment with combining crafts you love.

Beads are easy because there are so many ways to add beads to your embroidery.  You can go all out as I did below and make jewelry from your embroidered Free Standing Lace Medallions, or dot beads (sew them or glue them) around a fantasy embroidery to add sparkle to the sky or ground or add to the characters costumes.  Add fringe at the bottom of a wall hanging with beads the colors in the embroidery.

If you like yarn, this too can be incorporated.  You can crochet or braid a necklace cord for a medallion.  Add fringe to a wall hanging – with or without beads.  Cut small pieces of appropriate fluffy fibers to add to the landscape of an embroidery.  Outline by couching an appropriate fiber or yarn around elements in the picture.

 

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