When the challenge was announced, I just loved it!!!
I began quilting with 'up'cycling! That is how it all started for me...
For this challenge, I was planning on making a selvedge background and then thread sketching on top of it!!!
Awesome plan wasn't it?
But I forgot something: how lazy I am!
So the selvedges were sewn together, because that was the easier part, and they sat on my table for about a month!!!
I had a lot of time! - I would tell myself.
Fast forward to 30th July! I am in panic mode! My quilt is not ready! And there's no way I am going to be able to do the thread painting in one day!
So I just decided to be late, again. I proceeded to clean my sewing room. That was when I found the markers I had bought from Bernina India. Thats the ones they use with their paintworks tool!
I knew exactly what I wanted to make!!! I then let my heart do the design and the hand do the drawings!!!
So here's my quilt! Finished in time!!!
I love the quirkiness and the 'fun'ness of the quilt! And I already see myself making many more!!!
I had made a quilt with strips of solids a while back. I had a lot of those leftover strips, between 2-6" wide. I cut up a few to make the super scrappy binding of the quilt!!!
Do you like it??
It's perfect! And finished on time! WooHoo!!!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed making it so much!!!
DeleteI love the colors you have used!
ReplyDeleteThank you Karen!!!
DeleteI'm a selvedge freak, too! Some fabrics have the best titles - so cute! Very nice use of selvedges - very fitting of our challenge!
ReplyDeleteI have many more and now I have a vision of these so many quilts that I can make with them!!! We're having a state convention of architects in my town and I will be displaying my work for them... It will be a great opportunity to make some since a lot of them promote 'green' architecture!
DeleteNow aren't you the clever one.....there's always more than one way to "skin a cat." Turned out perfectly and on time!
ReplyDeleteOn time - thats the important part! I have been late on my latest projects so many times to it helped to have this done on time!
DeleteThis turned out well Shruti. Isn't it good when your original idea doesn't go to plan but the end result is so successful?
ReplyDeleteThat is the usual case with me!!! Out of all the projects I have done here, very few turned out like I wanted them to!
DeleteYes I do. Very clever to draw on the selvages. And so very appropriate for the theme.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Shasta!!!
DeleteGreat use of selvedges Shruti! I don't think the marker (instead of thread painting) takes away from it at all somehow - it works!
ReplyDeleteI do like it, Shurti!! And isn't it great how these challenges tend to lead to other things we want to do in our own lives! Love the use of the markers..once again..I have learned from these challenges and what others are doing!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea Shurti, I've always wanted to make something from the selvages but never remember to keep them. I have a friend that loves cutting fabric for quilts and she often cuts mine so I don't see the selvages.
ReplyDeletePerfect use of a usually discarded bit of the fabric.
ReplyDeleteYou have created a fun, cute little quilt.