Greetings to all the Material Mavens ....those who have been with us since the beginning, those who are still sort-of new, and those who are brand new !
One of the first thoughts that came to me with Rita's challenge, was a vague memory (or perhaps imagination !) of Mary Poppins flying about, over, and through a hugely large number of beautiful flowers. These flowers, of course, made even more beautiful because of her 'magic!'
My 12" x 12" quilt is composed of 80+ flowers (well.... make that 160+ flowers since each flower is two-sided, with a different fabric on each side). Each flower was machine stitched onto a 'traditional English-garden' theme backing fabric, plus Warm and Natural batting. A more contemporary 'funky' type fabric was used for the backing
After getting all these pieces / parts assembled, I partially 'sliced' each flower into 8 or more 'petals,' spritzed the whole quilt with water, and thew it into a hot dryer to fluff up all those petals !
My quilt is a funky, quirky rendition of the beautiful garden I remember from seeing Julie Andrews (aka Mary Poppins) flying over on one of her many journeys !
Peace & blessings, Kathy
I can hardly wait to see it!
ReplyDeleteSounds amazing! Can't wait to see.
ReplyDeleteWhew!!! I managed to get Kathy's images posted, and they are worth the wait! Gorgeous, Kathy!
ReplyDeleteTo Alice - Our Super Hero MM Computer Guru:
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for all your creative help in getting my pictures posted ! My Computer and iPhoto just couldn't make their connections this time. Thanks again :-D
This is so darn cute and imaginative! Not enough superlatives for it, except one.....supercalafrag.......
ReplyDeleteLOVE THIS!! So fun and creative and supercali. . . .
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ReplyDeleteThat is awesome!
ReplyDeleteSo glad to see the picture - very cool and clever approach
ReplyDeleteThis turned out so beautiful, Kathy. Thanks for the explanation of how you accomplished this 3-D quilt. Love it!
ReplyDeleteI love your flowers. I am interested in how you created them.
ReplyDeleteHi Tricia .... Here's how I made the flowers: I took several pieces of sort-of floral fabrics, cut them into approx 6+ inches wide, by approx 14" in length. I fused two of the different fabs together using Wonder Under Fusible to make several 'sets' of the to-be-flowers fabric. Using a small Mason Jar Lid, I traced as many circles as I could on each of the fabric sets, then cut out each of the circles using my 'wavy blade' rotary cutter. Then... time to sew each of the flowers onto the background fabric, the batting, and the backing fab! In free-motion, I sewed through the middle of each circle flower in kind of a spiral shape.... JUST THROUGH THE CENTER.... not the whole flower. Next: With regular scissors, I cut 8 "slits" into he flower shapes to simulate the flower petals. (All this was rather tedious!) I bound the quilt with a very simple "self binding." Next.. I spritzed the whole quilt and thew it into my dryer on "Hot." When the quilt was dry... the flower petals had fluffed up which gave the quilt that pretty-cool "3-D" texture :-D Hope this helps.... Glad you enjoyed my quilt !
DeleteAbsolutely love the flower garden! Interesting way to make them lively.
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