Tag: Collage Quilt

A Marnie original!!

I love to highlight the quilts from my friend Marnie. She started her quilting journey early last year after making this quilt for one of her friends……

This summer as I was making a “Whale of a Baby Quilt”…..

“A Whale of a Time”

….she decided to make another collage quilt for yet another friend.

It was such fun to watch her picking exactly the right fabrics to make the perfect home for her whale.

And, you will agree, the end result was wonderful…..

Congratulations Marnie on another great finish!!!

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Musical decisions

Well, it has been a while since I posted about Marnie’s Guitar quilt. The last post left the quilt top at this stage…..

The pattern from Laura Heine has a bunch of fun embellishments added to it……

….and we had originally looked forward to picking those out.

BUT….when I posted the photo of the quilt progress, Rosie commented that it had a landscape look to it!! And, as I looked I could see what she was saying. There was the sky on the top left, green meadows on the bottom right, and sunset colors at the top right.

When Marnie and I got together again, I was hesitant to suggest that we wouldn’t add any embellishments, but as we talked, I realized that we BOTH had the same idea!!

So NO EMBELLISHMENTS IT WAS!!!

We did make one small change to the top right. There was too much of this fabric…..

We had planned to cover it up with the word “Guitar” but since we weren’t doing that anymore, we chose to make a small change….

And just like that, the top was finished!!

We layered it up and got ready to quilt!!

Come back tomorrow as we finish it up!!

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OOPPPPSSSS!

I have been posting this week about the quilt that my friend Marnie is making. When I last left you, we were at this stage…..

Now it was time to place the outside edges. These were a bit painful to do because the curves were a little funky….

Of course, it didn’t help that we failed to trace from the reverse side of the pattern and the curves curved in the wrong direction. Okay….let’s re-do that.

Once we figured out our error, it was quick to add the side pieces…..

The pattern was designed to have a very thin sliver of black fabric but we quickly decided to draw that on instead…..

That was a good idea!!!

Once the entire guitar was designed, I cut it out so that it could be attached to the background.

I cut TOO far over and ended up cutting off part of the guitar neck and frets!!!

AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!

We ended up pulling off one of the fret bars, placing the new fabric on, and then covering the seam up with the new fret bar!!!

Frustrating…..yes…..but it worked out okay!!!

We added the strings and placed the entire guitar on a collaged background fabric…..

Marnie is especially happy with the “Amazing Grace” sheet music….

We had to take a couple of weeks off for the holidays but this week we are working to add a few embellishments and then get it ready to quilt.

Keep coming back for even more……

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It’s quilt-time with Marnie…

Back in October, I posted about the “fabric pull” for a quilt that my friend Marnie is making one of her friends….

Over the next few weeks, we started adding fabrics to the design…. LOTS of smaller pieces…..

….but after looking at it more we decided that we wanted to use larger pieces of fabric…..

THAT looks so much better!!

At some point, we felt that it would be good to pull all of the guitar fabrics at once…..

This gave us a much better idea of where it was heading!!!

When we had a section that we were happy with Marnie used the mini iron to “tack” the fabrics to the interfacing…..

After everything was tacked down, we took it off of the design wall and gave it a really good ironing. Now everything was stuck down well and she started adding some of the details…..

….like the sound hole and pickguard, and finally the frets on the guitar neck….

There is lots more to come….Please come back to watch this masterpiece develop!!!

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Do you see a theme?

If you have been following along this summer, you will know that I have played with a variety of techniques, but there has been one thing in my mind that I have been heading for…..

SADIE THE SADDLEBILL STORK!!

To refresh your memory, I took a photo of Sadie when we were traveling last year in Mozambique….

Back in December, I collaged the stork and then started working on the background. It took me 4-1/2 tries to get something that I was happy with. When I left you, this is where it was…..’

I had thought that I would work on it some during the 2022 tax season but that was just a pipe dream!!!

I tried couching down a few threads…..

but quickly realized that I didn’t like it and pulled them out again. I mean, what was I thinking when I put them in a row like this??? I do think that I could use this thread to add some highlights.

Anyway, this summer I spent a lot of time on my Botero Flower Garden…..

…loving the look of the dyed cheesecloth as an underlay.

And yesterday I posted about thread painting this meadow…..

So the question for September is “how can I use these two techniques to embellish Sadie’s background??”

I have concerns about both techniques…..

  • The cheesecloth will make the surface rough and I am worried that Sadie wouldn’t be able to lay flat…..especially with her sweet, skinny legs.
  • The fabric may not stand up to the intense thread painting in the 2nd meadow

So, do I need to do some sort of hybrid??

I would LOVE to hear your thoughts?