I promised to post a picture of the little whole cloth I quilted last Friday. I finished hand sewing the binding last night during color class.
It is a blatant copy with minor modifications of one Renae Haddadin showed on her DVD and has posted on her website. I needed something relatively quick for a gift exchange next week and I wanted it to be handmade. I also wanted to play more with some of the techniques on Renae’s video so this is the result.
Imagine you need a project finished in less than three weeks for color class. Eek! I came up with an idea that was inspired by a project on Suzanne’s blog. I looked for the exact entry, but can’t find it at the moment. This project must be quicker than the last two because there is too much else happening during the next three weeks.
This month’s project is complementary. My plan is to incorporate a word (or words) on a background. I thought I was going to being doing blue and orange. When I started looking at what I thought were a lot of blues I found that most of them are actually blue violet if I compare them to the 3 in 1 color tool. So my colors are going to be blue-violet and yellow-orange. My first thought was to use Shiva Paint sticks to stencil the word(s) onto the background, but I’m afraid it will start to get somewhat muddied with the complementary colors.
So the next idea was to stencil onto some yellow-orange fabric, add fusible web, cut out the letters and fuse them to the background. With that in mind I stenciled “Imagine” on a scrap of fabric.
This is sort of what I was thinking of for the project, just not quite as regular as it came out in Electric Quilt. The lettering would be as in the layout above. and the stripes wouldn’t be even — might even be curves. The fabric is also what came with EQ not what I would be using.
Then I started thinking that it might be cool to have multiple words and leave them on the background fabric, so here is another idea.
I’d be interested to hear which one my blog visitors think I should pursue.
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