wip wednesday: workshop fun!
So, here’s my latest WIP, from Marguerette Tate’s workshop last week. We started out at the very beginning making a background to decorate. Here’s mine, ready for quilting:
Marguerette has the best technique for creating art quilt backgrounds. You start out with strips and end up with two quilt tops ready for embellishing. We worked on just one in the class and saved the other for another day.
Here’s my background all quilted with the beginnings of the dimensional flower embellishments. Can you believe I finished all this before the workshop was through?
I wanted to do my own thing so I quilted one of my skull appliques to the background. I fused two layers of Kona white together to try to mask the strong background behind the white. That worked pretty well, you can barely see the background through it and it will be strong enough to support the embellishments without sagging. I decided against cutting out the background from behind it, although I might experiment with that in future quilts.
When I got home that night I added some beading and Swarovski hot-fix crystals because I had to show it off at the guild meeting the next day. It’s all in a day’s work.
Stay tuned for more beading and embellishments to come.
Wow, that's so cool. The background is so lovely, and the skull so rough; a wonderful combination!
Im impressed by the work you did during one day. Looks like a great workshop.
What fun colors. It's perfect for Dia de los Muertos!
This is a fun piece, love the smiling skelly!
That is awesome. The perfect background for your funky skull for sure!
Quilting the background before the embellishment is a great idea. I've done it a couple of times and been pleased with the results. This piece of yours is going to be fun.
Could you have put a thin piece of batting under the skull to cover the background?
Veronica,
That's a good idea I haven't tried yet. The dimensional effect would probably look great! Someday I should do an experiment and test all the different ways of hiding a dark background behind a light applique.