Wall Hanging – BFC Creations BLOG

Patricia’s Embellished Horse Wall Hanging

I have attached 3 photos of my project for the Embellishment contest

I used BFC290-04 Horse
BFC290-07 Horse
BFC363 Fence – turned them to make fence on each side
BFC1325 Tip of the big tree as a bush
BFC4334 Pine

TreeTrying to give the impression the pine tree was a long way behind the horses – and used fabric on the roll for the glitter fabric (dollarstore
product) – and put some beads as markers on the fences – along with the
green beads as small buds of some sort on the branches – and shiny round
beads for the eyes on the horses – framed it as a photo using printed
fabric of grassland and bulrushes

I love the way you really made the embellishments part of the whole story and picture!

Shezatrip’s Christmas Tree

I decided to make a nativity setting to use on one of my doors at the holidays. I have had this nativity design for many years and have wanted to use it. This gave me the opportunity. Along with the large tree I use the small free download on each side of the large tree. I put Swarovski crystals and small stars in the night sky. There is a sleeve on the back to put a rod through to hang it if you prefer. The boarders say O Holy Night on the top and The stars are brightly shining on the bottom. They don’t show up very well in the picture and I am not a great photographer.

A great way to use both designs!!! Suz

Deborah’s Christmas Tree

Here is my entrée. I used the Lg. Christmas Tree in the medium size. Surrounding the tree I made little pockets that are able to hold a small candy bar. Also pinned on the pocket is a little Christmas bulb ornaments that have been in the family for many years. The tree is
decorated as if it is December 9 ( our anniv). I hope you enjoy my advent tree as much as my family and grandkids do.
Thank you,

I love how you’ve made places to put things around the tree! Perfect for this design. Suz

BFC1220 Large Christmas Tree 2012

Bob’s Clematis Wall Hanging

Clematis and Friends

This wall hanging is approximately 26 inches square with borders.

I begin with the quilt ‘sandwich’ consisting of the top fabric (batik), cotton batting and fusible light pellon. These were based together and the pellon was fused to the batting.

The trellis strips are raw edge appliqué with triple stitch edges. The various designs have been applied in layers in an attempt to give depth to this piece. The background designs were embroidered and the piece was quilted. The upper right hand corner has a fold back to suggest that that a new design can be revealed by pulling the top back. Additional layers of light pellon are fused to the back as needed to prevent curling.

Now I added the forward designs. I do not find open designs effect on a multi-coloured background. Consequently, I used many of the designs as appliqués. After embroidering a design, the excess fabric was cut very close and 3 lines of triple stitch were added to the edge of the design. The green in the fern leaves is fabric paint.

A cotton back was added just before the robe edge was sewn. There is additional stitch-in-the-ditch to hold the backing. The piece is finished with beads, sequins and crystals.

HIi Bob – you used all the things i love in your wall hanging! – fabrics, embroideries, various quilting stitches and embellishments! Great job… Suz

Bob

Paula’s Cat Wall Hanging

My wall hanging last night is done with cat’s outlines and silhouettes. I stitched out the cats then planned my wall hanging using 9 patches and disappearing 9 patches. I had a charm package of animal print I had fun using that. I did quilt it in the ditch and put a hanger on it so I can put in on my wall.

That’s so cute Paula and my favorite subject! 🙂 Suz

BFC1343 Cats – Outlines and Silouettes

Pat’s Dragon

It was a test stitch initially which I made into a wall hanging and gave to my husband who adores my creative work. I’ve stitched out the file for commercial machines, I have a Janome MB4, but needed to reduce it and rotate slightly to fit my 200 x 240 mm hoop. As always it stitched out beautifully. I’ve used quilting cotton, Lonnie Rossi designs for Andover Fabrics from the Paint Box Range throughout. The centre fabric is pink with gold embossed Gingko Biloba leaves in the background. There is a deeper in a colour to match the tan design around the dragon’s tail then a gold and tan fabric as a 2 inch border. I’ve used a black for the binding, the rope hanger and tassels. I’m so pleased with the result as is my husband, he took the semi-finished hanging to a group he belongs to and I ended up with orders for the design from other quilters. I will attempt the large design next so I can play with placement and split designs.Pat

How great to have a hubby that appreciates your art!!! Beautiful job with the fabrics you chose ……Suz

BFC1442 Large Chinese Dragon

Sr. Kateri’s Entry for one of our Freebie Contests

I am a Catholic sister who makes vestments for my order and I acquired
my first embroidery machine this July so I could embroider little
crosses on our habits and such. I immediately began scouring the
internet for patterns and lucked onto the BFC site. So many beautiful
designs; just add thread and time and wait for the beauty to emerge! As
I collected the freebies on the site, I began thinking how Fred’s
designs represented all God’s creation so well. And, as you know, God is
everything to us sisters. I immediately made a list of the religious
designs I would like to acquire someday, and when I saw the freebie
contest, I knew I had to enter because it represented my chance to
obtain those designs. I went through my downloaded files to find the
“Give Thanks” freebie that started it all and thought of building a set
of placemats around that idea. Then, as I looked at the animals again, I
decided to embroider part of the Book of Genesis as a wall hanging for
one of our prayer areas.
In keeping with our vow of poverty, I cut up one of our winter habits
to obtain the fabric so it was a nearly bulletproof heavy black fabric.
In hindsight, black was not the best choice because the outlines had to
be changed from black to other colors so they could be seen and
photographing the final product was nearly impossible, especially given
the poor lighting in our sisters’ residence. Also due to that vow of
poverty, I had to alter many of the designs because I have fewer than 10
colors of thread. I obtained the vast majority of those during that
fabulous BFC sale a couple weeks ago. So, this really is a BFC design in
many ways.
In the end, I used eight picture graphics (to represent sea creatures,
winged birds, wild animals, livestock, man, woman, edible plants and
tree-born fruit), a frame, a scroll, and three elements combined and
moved around to make custom frames. A freebie Byzantine quilting block
was transformed into a frame around two of the graphics because it
resembled a cross and I wanted that imagery present in the panel even
though it is based on the Old Testament. A freebie crewel element was
shrunk and mirrored to become a frame for the cardinal and radishes. A
freebie Art Nouveau element became a frame for the tiger and Eve. Two
angels became Adam and Eve. There was plenty of graphics to choose from
to represent the text I included from five Genesis scriptures (1:21,
1:25, 1:27, 1:29, and 1:31). My superior is rather bemused with the
final product and happy this contest motivated me to create it. Now, I
submit it for consideration.

I LOVE BOTH YOUR ENTRIES AND YOUR NARRATIVE!!! People will love reading about you and your projects 🙂 Suz

June’s Heron

I had the idea of creating a wall hanging with a Large Blue Heron for many years. I bought the Heron design in 2008 and he flapped around in my head until the Fall of 2014!

I knew he would have to be Free Standing in order to give me the freedom to ‘land’ him in his chosen spot! And because of that, I had to stitch the background completely before I could stitch him in place.

I stitched him on organza sandwiched between 2 layers of WSS. Then as his layers stitched out, I continually added more organza for texture.

The green background is made with 7 different Batik fabrics, cut into 2 ½ inch strips of random lengths. These were sewn short ends together until I had a very long strip. I cut the strip horizontally in half and stitched the 2 pieces side by side length wise; cut it in half again and continued stitching and cutting until I had a good sized rectangle. Then I cut this rectangle into 2 ½ inch strips on the diagonal and repeated the previous process all over again. This way I created a very richly textured background.

I did the same with the blues for the water, except I cut them in 2 inch strips.

When I had finished both, I sewed them together. The whole piece was carefully Free Motioned. This was a difficult process because of the great number of seams. (Lots of broken needles here!)

The joined edge between green and water was ‘smoothed out’ with silk roving covered with fine tulle and Free Motioned in place.

The log is one piece of fabric fused in place. However, it did not fuse completely, giving the log lots of depth! A very Happy Mistake! The log’s watery edge was ‘smoothed out’ with pieces of fine yarn, covered in fine tulle and Free Motioned in place.

I trimmed away as much of the tulle as I could.

It was now time for the reeds. Their shapes were cut and then fused together with a piece of fine wire between each layer. This gave me the opportunity to position them as I pleased, once they had been stitched in place. I embellished them with Oil Pastel Paints helping them stand out from the background color.

Finally the Heron landed on his log and was tacked in place with nylon thread.

I chose to bind this piece instead of adding borders. I did not want to detract from the focal point—the Heron!

I’m speechless June!!! Thank you so much for such great detailed info on how you created this beautiful wall hanging. You’ve made me want to touch and feel it and look at every detail….Suz

Just a thought – I’ve been working with the Dupioni Silk a lot making up Silk Packs for m ETSY shop. There are always scraps and I wonder how a background of silk pieces done with your method would look. Just a thought, but with the way the silk shimmers and shifts colors, this might make a very unusual background!