2/28/2023 0 Comments Meander quilting barkI went through the recent past couple of years thinking I needed to learn a more formal quilting style and to avoid the natural flow of organic quilting patterns that came to my mind when looking at a landscape or pictorial quilt. For good measure I added a sunset (or sunrise?) out of two warm golden scarves.I always need to work at coming up with how to quilt my landscape and pictorial wall art quilts, as I suspect most quilters do for their quilts. In the same fashion I was able to fashion a sky out of one very stylized scarf of blue, turquoise, navy, light green and white. I found one green, brown, tan and white scarf that subtlely depicted a mountain range beyond the original pink and white mountains. She offered me several suggestions, all of which I took, but the best one was her off-hand remark, “You know, you could extend the mountains up and beyond.” But I was so excited I begged my art teacher friend to come and see it. What an interesting grouping of colors, with even a little bit of mist curling among the hills.Īt this point, there was no tree, no plain, no sky, no lower field in the right hand side. I was especially thrilled with the bumpy range just below the pink mountains that was made entirely out of tie scraps. Almost before I knew it and with little conscious planning, colorful hills and surrounding pink mountains ranged across the width of the wall hanging. Gradually I added other items, discovering gems among the scarves and ties. First I attached a soft green fabric for the hills on the left side which formed a background to the tree. Starting the design I used the tree template above as a guide. Most of the tie scraps were already stabilized so that all that was needed was the glue. Now they were ready to be pinned onto the backing. If I planned to use part a particular scarf, I would stabilize it (usually twice as the scarves were thin and fragile) then add an adhesive. The idea was to attach pieces as I went along and to that end I stabilized fabrics as I needed them. My first task was to cut out a large muslin backing over 6×4 sq.ft. The main reason, I have to admit, was because the ties and the scarves were wonderfully versatile, not just beautiful but fashioned as if they had been made for this project.Įarly stages of making bereavement wall hanging This wall hanging seemed to be telling me what it should look like at every turning point. I’d heard folks say things like “the book practically wrote itself” and that was true for me. Making this bereavement wall hanging was one of the best experiences in my life. This was a first for me, working with a design that was wholly in my head. The design grew as I worked, changing as I went along.Instead I simply set about making the quilt with no design in mind, except that I needed a background for my tree. So what was my design? I couldn’t imagine one.Similarly, I had thought I’d make the flat plain on which the tree stands act as a mirror to the tree’s branches as is shown in the picture.Although I had planned to design a background using the misty hills in the background as a template, I realized right away that I wanted something much more interesting.I knew I had to first design a background, then add the tree at the last minute.When I actually made it, I discarded almost every idea I’d had. For several weeks I thought about how I’d like to make the quilt with this tree in the foreground.
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