I've been quilt
addicted lately. I recently joined the
local Quilt Guild. It's a huge group
that is amazingly organized with the nicest ladies ever who are amazing
quilters. I entered this quilt in the
upcoming quilt show, Common Threads Quilt Show, which is put on by the local
group. This past week at the meeting I
showed if off and was happy to hear good things from the other members. The group is mostly traditional quilters so
they enjoyed seeing an art quilt up.
There is nothing wrong with traditional, I started there, but I like
having fun with a quilt.
I actually had a
project for the Wichita Weavers Guild that inspired the making of this
quilt. We were to make something fiber
related from a cocktail. I had picked some
yellow/orange drink. When I realized the
colors were coordinating with our living room I used that as inspiration as
well. I really love how this quilt came
out. The name of the quilt is the title
of this entry.
I was laying out
fabrics to figure what I wanted to do.
I painted the main
background fabric with dye. It's a
cotton sateen fabric; I really love how this fabric absorbs dye. I also put some pieces of cotton string in
some dye to soak then laid them across the fabric. After washing and drying, I added some gold
spray paint splatters on it. The borders
are made up of silk and linen fabrics.
The poppy flowers are made up of cotton, silk chiffon, and silk charmeuse
fabrics that have been naturally dyed with onion skins and osage orange. The poppies were free motioned down with
circles. I left the petals raw edged so
they would fray a little. After putting
the whole quilt together I hand beaded the centers of the poppies with brown
glass seed beads and Swarovski crystal.
The back comprises
of some scrap fabrics that matched. The
orange fabric was hand dyed cotton sateen.
The brown fabric is Kona cotton and the small turquoise piece is silk. I just wanted to add some fun on the back. After assembling the quilt layers I free
motion quilted the grass and stems in green colors, which you can really see on
the chocolate background.
Cheers,
Kyle
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