First "finished," but second Lenten forms quilt that I'm deciding is actually done. I finished the free-motion quilting some time ago on this quilt, but as I kept looking at it on the wall it seemed as if the quilting was taking away from the overall large composition, so I took out my seam ripper and got to work.
I used several manipulations of the fabric after initial printing for this quilt. The large yellow circle was discharged using a Dharma discharge paste (that they no longer carry) activated by heat (sunlight or iron). To get the aqua lines down the center of the quilt I used a flour resist dyeing technique on only the central portion of the quilt.
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| flour resist applied to quilt top |
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| turquoise dye applied over flour resist |
This is the quilt with most of the free-motion stitching done. You can see the tree or root-like free motion stitching that goes all across the one end of the quilt. This was the part that bothered me, so I ended up removing all the roots that didn't start inside the black fabric. I love the simpler quilting and am finally calli
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| extra stitching to remove: parallel lines and roots to the left |
Here is the finished quilt, called "Infrastructure 2" nestled into my side garden alongside my driveway and with a few others in the series.
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| "Infrastructure 2" |
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| Forms of Lent quilts |
See all six Lenten Forms 2016 in the Lenten Forms 1-6 post.
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