A few weeks ago I mentioned that I was working on quilting my silk screening test medallion. I'm so excited that I actually finished it this weekend! I was going to post some in progress photos last week, but never got around to it.
Here's the medallion just after I silk screened it. My mom and I made our own screens- for more on that process, see this post. I also tried painting/overdying/silk screening a commercial print fabric- that's the second picture with the family of quail. That piece is still in my waiting-for-a-plan drawer, but the first one is done!
Aside from the borders, it's mostly a whole cloth, just quilted with different colors of thread, mostly plum, green, neon yellow, and silver metallic. I put a row of piping between the main panel and the borders; I'll never do that again- what a mess to quilt up to. Every time I got close to it my foot got caught resulting in a wretched ugly spot in the quilting. The inner purple quilted frame is adapted from a dover book of copyright free art deco style borders. I love the organic framing effect it gives. Unfortunately, the colors in the silk screen faded quite a bit after washing the quilt to remove the quilting marks- I guess I needed to iron more to set the fabric. I'd not originally ironed it because I didn't want to set the lines I'd used to align the screen designs (see blue lines in first picture), but I think I probably should have to prevent fading. I love the way it turned out, so soft and springy! Now to find someplace to hang it.
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| Spring in October, 40" x 40" c. Shannon Conley, 2012 |
Feels really good to have another big (for me) finished project!
This is absolutely beautiful. You've done an excellent job. Just make sure you hang it where everyone will see it.
ReplyDeletelovely! It is so bright cheery. Sadly, I'm already tired of the brown going on around here. Its going to be a long winter.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great piece. Are you going to enter it in the bloggers quilt festival?
ReplyDeleteYou really aren't worried about where to hang that are you? I can think of a few places it would look amazing.. Fir instance in my kitchen. In my living room... In my bedroom... In moms guest bedroom with the jolly rancher quilt.. Have i mentioned my house? All joking aside, it is super pretty. Sorry about the pipig, it sounded like a good idea in the beginning!
ReplyDeleteI think your quilt is gorgeous! I like the borders and quilting and the silk screened center-all of it! Piping is tricky, isn't it? Looks good, though!
ReplyDeleteImpressive! I wish I could see it up close--and touch it, of course!
ReplyDeletebeautiful ! I love the design, the colors and the quilting.
ReplyDeleteYou have done such beautiful work, I absolutely LOVE it.
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