This piece is quite different than my original vision. My style has evolved toward less cluttered, sparser and cleaner designs. A far cry from my days of embellishing/beading every piece of fabric that stood still long enough!
After adding a facing to the Red Tree wall quilt, I had to admit the piece was simply too plain, even for me. So now it's been married with a beautiful Japanese print that I machine quilted and bound. It's become a 'quilt on a quilt!'
RED TREE - 31" x 27.5"
Hand-dyed silk nail, cotton batik, Japanese print fabric, appliqued
and machine quilted.
Update - I'm not sure my explanation was very clear......here's a detail of the 'quilt on a quilt'. The center piece is a stand alone wall quilt.....placed on a larger quilted background....it's not a border in the normal sense.
That Japanese border print really makes the piece special, beautiful!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteThat's the perfect border print! Lovely
ReplyDeleteVery nice marriage. I've done this kind of finish myself - I call the bottom piece a mount and often just fuse the fabric to Decor Bond so that I don't have to quilt it. Then you can attach your feature quilt in a variety of ways. I like the one cherry falling off the edge at the bottom. Lovely piece.
ReplyDeleteGreat solution, it really sets the tree off.
ReplyDeleteThis was a perfect solution. The print really offsets the smaller quilt beautifully. You would never know that it wasn't part of the original plan.
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