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| Quilt for Paula |
I used cotton fabric as a base and did some simple piecing around the centre piece, which was text printed onto cotton on my printer. First I had sprayed with a walnut ink wash, then painted over with Magical Mica pots. These little pots of powder produce amazing colours when they are wet - you dip your brush into the pot before wetting. For this I used Autumn Maple, Tibetan Poppy, Ponderosa Pine and Red Hot Poker. Because of the walnut ink, they look a little muted but they can be incredibly vibrant.
For the text, I thought of everything that Paula loves. Anyone who knows Paula knows that there wasn't enough space for everything, so I needed to be choosy. But I made sure that some of the essentials were there - woolfelt and her Sizzix particularly!
I hand stitched on the centre panel, but found that there wasn't a lot of space to stitch without covering the writing, which was a shame, because I think it could have done with quilting. As the outside edges were securely machined, the centre piece puffed up a bit and creased.
The outer panels were stencilled with some lime green paint and machine stitched to quilt. I used pelmet vilene to create labels. I used tissuetex to cover the labels and TAP (Transfer Artist Paper) to put the images of the scissors on (using copyright-free images from the internet), and then I managed (after much blood, sweat and tears) to put eyelets in and hand-stitch the labels to the quilt.
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| copyright free images of vintage scissors were used |
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| My label - nade with my wonderful Sizzix Wordplay die |
I think she liked it!!!! It was the mention of woolfelt that clinched it....
I absolutely LOVED it! everything about it, not just the mention of wool felt! But the thing I loved the most is that you made it for ME and it is PERFECT :o)xx
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