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!
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