Journal Quilts 2010 - January, February and March

These are the first three  Journal Quilts of 2010

7" X 10"  aprox. 18 X 25 cm

Checkers, Anyone?                              Red Cracks                                Chessboard

I started with my sketchbook and made a whole quilt sandwich.

 Then things quickly went wrong as I started to paint. The red colour was to wet and started to bleed.

At this point I already knew that my black paint was too thick and lumpy.

So I started a new sandwich and this time I had much more control over the brush and got the red painted alright. Seeking high and low here in Guernsey, I tried to get some textile paint and ended up with a felt tip pen for textiles and that worked like a treat. Unfortunately they didn't have the right red colour.

I proceeded  to cut the quilt the wrong way [the pattern too close to the right] and I had to be creative on the left side, with a fat red binding and when that was still not enough - some fused bars. I have yet to decide if I'm going to stitch them [might fall of if I send them to a show, and somebody else is going to handle the quilt].

Checkers, Anyone? 

 

 Cotton and silk fabric, cotton thread, wadding, bond-a-web and fabric paint.

Wholecloth quilt, quilted, fused and painted.

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Red Cracks

Cotton fabric, cotton thread, wadding, brayer, acrylic and fabric paint.

Pieced, quilted and painted.

Note: It was quite scary to take the brayer with the acrylic paint to the finished quilt. I didn’t like it till it was bound.

Checkerboard

Cotton and silk fabric, cotton thread, wadding, bond-a-web.

Torn strips, woven, quilted and fused.

Note: When I had torn all the strips, it looked like a pile of spaghetti, so I very nearly gave up before I had started. But with a great deal of pressing, gluing and fusing, I finally had my way…… very satisfying☺.

No sketchbook for this one!

Still having blogging problems:

Pictures and text are all over the place - depending on how wide you choose to see the window! Hmmmmmm.

Have just moved all my pictures to the center position, that seems to help a bit.