{"id":1938,"date":"2014-04-06T14:37:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T21:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2014-04-06T14:37:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T21:37:12","slug":"weekend-finish-2014-04-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2014\/04\/06\/weekend-finish-2014-04-06\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend finish – 2014.04.06"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Skybridge quilt is finished!\u00a0 It’s 35 x 52 inches.\u00a0 I started working on it just 2 weeks ago<\/a>, so it went together very quickly – although that doesn’t include the time I spent thinking about and designing it.<\/p>\n

\"TerryAske_Swoop\"<\/a>It’s based on a photo I took of the Skybridge<\/a> (part of the Vancouver rapid transit system).\u00a0 I’m so pleased that I could recreate in fabric what was in the photo and in my head.\u00a0 The sense of distance and perspective from this point of view really appealed to me, as well as the contrast of the straight, diagonal and curved lines.\u00a0 But most of all, I love the curve it makes as it swoops down and out over the river.\u00a0 I’m going to title it “Swoop”.<\/p>\n

I fused the various bridge units in place using 1\/4\u2033 or 1\/2\u2033 strips of fusible web around the edges of each unit.\u00a0 Many quilters use glue to hold their applique in place – I find fusible strips on the edges is less messy to work with.\u00a0 However, I realized this wasn’t really going to keep the units in place during the quilting process, as I rolled and tugged and manipulated the quilt.<\/p>\n

So I decided to stitch the outlines of all the bridge components before<\/em> layering the quilt with batting and backing.\u00a0 This meant I didn’t have to bury all those thread ends.\u00a0 It also made it easier to use my walking foot to stitch, thus avoiding problems with skipped \"TerryAske_Swoop_detail\"<\/a>stitches in the areas with many layers of fabric.\u00a0 I stitched the bridge components to the background with black thread, and the towers with dark gray.<\/p>\n

Then I layered the quilt top with batting and backing, and quilted the sky, clouds and distant hills.\u00a0 I added additional details to the bridge with black thread, and stitched around the edges again. The double lines of stitching give the look of a pen-and-ink drawing – a look I’ve become quite captivated with recently (see my cherry blossoms quilt<\/a> and kids on swings<\/a> for examples of this).\u00a0\u00a0 The last step was to stitch the cables.\u00a0 Now it’s ready to be faced.\u00a0 Then I’ll submit it to the IQF Tactile Architecture<\/a> 2014 exhibit.<\/p>\n

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Other news – my donation quilt for the SAQA Benefit Auction<\/a> is online – it’s on page 1b<\/a> on the 6th row.\u00a0 While you\u2019re there, check out all the other awesome quilts.\u00a0 And there will be lots more coming.\u00a0\u00a0 The quilts will be auctioned online in September.<\/p>\n

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Thanks for stopping by.\u00a0 I\u2019m linking up to these blogs, where you can see many other creative projects:<\/p>\n

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The Skybridge quilt is finished!\u00a0 It’s 35 x 52 inches.\u00a0 I started working on it just 2 weeks ago, so it went together very quickly – although that doesn’t include the time I spent thinking about and designing it. 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