In the last post, I discussed how I got the horse on the fabric. I was playing around sketching with a brush and some watercolors and came up with this image. I decided to use it for my Asia-themed quilt for Art Quilts Around the World.
I transferred the horse to fabric with a blue washout pen, pieced the quilt together, then layered it with wool batt, Decor-bond, and Kona black cotton on the back. I ironed the whole thing to make it flat. I quilted the parts around the horse fabric with 50 wt Aurifil with a lot of stitching in the ditch.
I machine-sketched with the heavy 28 wt cotton Aurifil thread (the one with the grey plastic in the photo above) and a 90/14 quilting needle. I used the washout marker so I wouldn't have to follow the lines exactly.
Then I got out my Tsukineko inks and those silly little pointy applicators and inked in my horse. I hit it with the iron again to set the inks.
After the ink was set, I used matching black/brown variegated 50 wt Aurifil to do the mane and tail. Then I quilted the background around densely with a pale color of 50 wt Aurifil -- yes, there's a thread theme going on here...
After I finished all the thread work and bound it, I rinsed it in the sink to get rid of the blue washout pen.
For a closer look, click on the photos.
3 comments:
Still my favorite piece you've done!
Great.... walk through... on the process. My machine time has not been so profitable... I've taken out every stitch .... I put in this week.
absolutely wonderful! thanks for sharing your process.
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