Poppies

Another poppies quilt is completed. I admit the picture is not the best. In reality it is a rectangular quilt 17"x24". By now I have made so many poppy quilts, that finding a title is becoming very difficult. I guess I have to start numbering them.

Fabrics used are a combination of hand dyed/painted ones and commercial batiks.

Poppies

During the years I have made a number of poppy quilts. In September I used the poppies again for EB's masterclass. This triggered a need to make again poppy quilts :-). Here is the one I am working on now. First picture shows the beginning of the lay out in grey scale, to see if there is enough contrast in the values used.

And this picture shows how the design looks now. I can start quilting.

more soft and hard edges

This week I continued working on the poppy design. The top picture shows my first lay out.

I like it, but the soft/hard edges do not really show. The background fabric is covered with 2 layers of tulle, but still not the effect I need. So I made another layout. This time with a commercial green fabric as background and 1 layer of tule. And indeed the edges dissolve much more. I will have to make some small addition corrections, but it is time to start quilting.

poppies

I am making progress on the poppies, slow, but there is progress. Quilting is done, only the centre of the flowers needs a bit more. The whole binding - 240 inches - is attached, at the top by machine, the reverse side by hand. Sleeve is also attached. Actually 2 sleeves as I am a bit afraid of sagging so I decided to make 2 sleeves. This way I can hang the quilt on 3 places instead of only the ones at the end. For the poppy seed pods I zapped lutrador and made layers of silk paper (rovings plus wall paper paste). This weekend I started working on stitching the seed pods. On this picture you can see how it looked while I was working on it. With a zigzag stitch I stitched 4 times over all the lines. In total it took me about 3 hours before one of the smaller seed pods was done. I used watersoluble fleece/paper on my first one, but when rinsing it some of the fleece/paper remained behind. With a bit of acrylic paint I could hide this, but I decided to switch to Sulky fleece for the other seed pods.
This picture gives a better idea of how it is going to look like:

Stitching has been completed. The seed pod still needs to be cut out along the stitching lines and more zapping is required. In total I need 5 seed pods, some of them around 40 inch long so you can guess what I will be doing the coming week :-)