Another of my experiments with 3-D flowers! I started this in 2003 and didn't finish it until 2007.
As usual.....I had an idea :-) I saw a quilt with 3-D flowers, so immediately I wanted to play with that idea. I wove the basket (badly) and made a small 9-patch grid to put it on. Added a piece of lace and made the roses. Than it sat for years. I machine quilted through the diagonals of the 9-patches and sat and looked at it a long time.
I can't stand having "UFO"s laying around, so eventually I went back to it. By this time I no longer liked some of the fabrics that I used in the roses.....I didn't have much stash when I started and no batiks or anything beautiful like that! I decided it needed more, so I started adding those whispy green leaves which were a pain to blanket stitch, because I kept getting the thread caught on the roses!
Then I saw a technique to fuse 2 pieces of fabric together and that is how I made the blue flowers. The yellow ones were just an experiment, because I thought it needed more color! Finally I embroidered the little "babies breath" white flowers and their greenery.
Quilting it was a nightmare for me, since I'm not much of a hand quilter! I did some flowers in the plain blue areas and there are roses in the corner areas. That was a lot for my limited hand quilting talents. Declared it finished!
Made a basket block and hunted up similar looking flowers on fabric and stitched them on.
As usual.....I had an idea :-) I saw a quilt with 3-D flowers, so immediately I wanted to play with that idea. I wove the basket (badly) and made a small 9-patch grid to put it on. Added a piece of lace and made the roses. Than it sat for years. I machine quilted through the diagonals of the 9-patches and sat and looked at it a long time.
I can't stand having "UFO"s laying around, so eventually I went back to it. By this time I no longer liked some of the fabrics that I used in the roses.....I didn't have much stash when I started and no batiks or anything beautiful like that! I decided it needed more, so I started adding those whispy green leaves which were a pain to blanket stitch, because I kept getting the thread caught on the roses!
Then I saw a technique to fuse 2 pieces of fabric together and that is how I made the blue flowers. The yellow ones were just an experiment, because I thought it needed more color! Finally I embroidered the little "babies breath" white flowers and their greenery.
Quilting it was a nightmare for me, since I'm not much of a hand quilter! I did some flowers in the plain blue areas and there are roses in the corner areas. That was a lot for my limited hand quilting talents. Declared it finished!
Made a basket block and hunted up similar looking flowers on fabric and stitched them on.Chose a horrible looking piece of fabric that I had no use for to put on the back and was happy to be done with it. Then I started on the "Roses and Old Lace" quilted piece that I already showed.....more 3-D flowers, but done better! My early pieces are full of mistakes and things I would change. It is hard for me to want to post them! I did like this, however and even though it is not perfect, I like the over-all concept.
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I like this a lot! Enjoyed my catch up here.
Enjoy your GPS, now you can go anywhere..whoo hoo.
Sandy: Thanks! We'll be testing it out tomorrow on our drive to Iowa.
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