My small quilt group, the Scrapbag Quilt Artists, has a challenge each year which results in a show at the library. I've posted them over the years. The theme for this year is "Surface Design" with a size of 25" x 25". Here's what I've done so far. The fabric with purple in it is a folded clamped shibori that I made a few years ago and have been waiting for the opportunity to use. The dark blue with the wavy lines is stitched shibori. The polka-dotted fabric is stamped with bubble wrap and the dark blue with straight lines is made from a stamp made with rubber bands wrapped around a block of wood. Both of those stampings are done on my hand-dyed fabric. The narrow purple strips are Dupioni silk, the only element in the quilt that is not surface design.I can't decide how to quilt it. I'm thinking of emphasizing the circles by quilting circles, either by hand with big stitches or by free-motion machine quilting. I also cannot think of a title. Any suggestions?
2 comments:
This looks great, what about 'Indigo Tiles'
I'm trying to experiment with Shibori resit dyeing myself at the moment, spent quite a bit of time stitching last weekend, dyed the sample but the effect was minimal - I think I need to get heavier thread and try again
This is very striking. I don't have any good quilting suggestions at the moment. Did you take a picture and try drawing lines on top to work out some of your ideas?
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