Butterfly Quilt (in progress)
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 11:12AM Here is my latest work-in-progress. I think I'll call it Ghosts of Past Travelers.
In my last blog, Mary Ann had mentioned using a baking rack for sun printing. So, I took the metal rack that I (previously) used for cooling cookies and placed wet PFD fabric on top of it. I pushed the fabric down in some of the spaces,sprayed with dye from a spray bottle and placed out in the sun for about 2 hours. I like the soft, ethereal look it produced. However, I am going to have to buy a new cooling rack and some baking sheets - once they are used with dye/paint I don't think they should ever be used for food again!
I traced the outline of my butterfly (or is it a moth?) with water-based resist and then painted and silk screened over the top of the resist. The silk screen is by Ginny Eckley. I'm in my "all me, all the time" phase where I want all the design elements to be of my making but Ginny's silk screen was just too perfect for this project to not use it. It looks like fragments of butterfly wings - hence the name.
art quilt, fabric design, resist, sun printing
Reader Comments (7)
It's lovely. Some trapunto behind the bufferfly would really showcase it....then some EKG quilting around it (can you tell I've been watching the Patsy Thompson classes on TQS?) :)
Very pretty...seems like your quilting should show movement.
Visual layers upon layers..Love it, love it, love it! The name is absolutely descriptive perfection. I am excited to see more. Karen B
Darn cool! Love the title.
I am so loving this! Love butterflies!
This is beautiful. I love to play with things like this. There just aren't enough hours in the day.
Love this new project! I look forward to seeing it develop. The waterfall jacket too. I want to try it now!