The Kelpie Quilt is a different sort of design for me. Sometime ago my hanai* sister, Carra, had used this design for a hobby site of ours and I was quite taken with this design. I decided about 5-6 years ago I was going to make this design into a quilt. I just had to learn how to quilt and figure out how to put the whole thing together into a cohesive design. Sometimes things have to gel for a while before I complete them. As it was during the gelling period I got in on a fabu sale on designer sheets in a rainbow of colours, which I had specifically picked out for this and the matching project. When I finally did start this project I chose not to use regular quilting cotton, I went with my marbled sheet material - a big no no or so I am told. Whatever, it was there and I used it.
When I first started this quilt I did the kelpie centre piece. I did it my way...that is I duct taped the print out to my living room window and then proceeded to duct tape the fabric and start tracing with my handy dandy - untested Crayola Washable Markers. After I was finished with this process I had to leave things for a while because I didn't know what I wanted to do to finish the quilt...so I let the middle section sit for a year and a half...then when I got ready to work it again, I ironed it to make it flat - GASP!
At this point I went for broke and used black, brown and green on the rest of the quilt units, what the hell I figured. If you have not guessed, I am a quilter who likes to bend, break and generally cause mishap and mayhem with the rules.
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| Design stitched into Moss Green panels |
Overall the design came together perfectly and quilting was fast and fun and I was able to finish the whole quilt in about a month's time. It was bound in denim - which the quilt's new owner chose for the binding, at first I wasn't sure, but it really brought the whole quilt together nicely. Note: denim is interesting to work with...
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The backing fabric was done in the marbled turquoise and shows the full design of stitching.
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| Click for detail of Back and stitching. |
| As you can see from the images, all the Crayola Washable Marker ink came out, even after sitting for a year, and being ironed...I washed it on hot and let it soak overnight. I couldn't be more pleased. For the Win, Crayola! For the WIN! I am currently designing the companion piece: The Phoenix. Peach Out Apricots! Morg *Hanai loosely means: to be adopted in Hawai'ian. |
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