This house-warming gift was my obsession; devoting non-stop 8 hour days for a month. A true labor of love for some very special people in my life who happen to live in San Francisco.
The piece was worked onto a non-fusible light-weight interfacing, featuring many of my ice-dyed cotton fabrics.
Landscape themes that require drawing are not in my wheel house, especially motifs that require perspective. After a lot of trial and error, a paper template was created........
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Which was translated into fabric. The shadowing came from using the right and wrong side of a print fabric and stitching with dark and light thread colors.
The recipient is bicyclist who travels the bridge to access trails on the Marin Peninsula. I tried many methods to add this detail and eventually came up with the idea of printing the image onto fabric that matched the sky.
THE BRIDGE - 26" x 34"
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The thickness of the layers prevented using a facing as the edge finishing, instead I created a binding by piecing fabrics to match the body of quilt as seen above.
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9 comments:
Oh my goodness! Your attention to detail in this quilt is amazing. I love the "ironwork" on the underside of the bridge, the cyclist, the bird ready for flight on the rocks below, the sailboats... everything. What a wonderful gift.
What a great gift! I recognized where it was immediately.
How cool! Thanks for posting the layers!
Wow. That will be a treasured gift, I'm sure (or it certainly should be!).
Nicely done! The bicyclist was a pain by the sounds but wow! So worth it. And the detail of the bird n the foreground - they are going to love this so much
!just wonderful....son will be so happy with it! Priceless
you must be thrilled with this and it will most certainly be treasured so amazed at how you created it.
Truly spectacular - you did a stunning job! And what a clever solution to your bicycle challenge. Love all the details you added including the bird on the hillside about to take flight. And I can't get over the matching you had to do on that binding.
Winner winner chicken dinner! I can't tell you how much we love this Mouse. It is so amazing and so special. Thank you so, so much!
Love,
Kelly
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