{"id":3092,"date":"2016-02-03T15:53:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T23:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2016-02-03T15:53:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T23:53:27","slug":"star-trails-2016-02-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2016\/02\/03\/star-trails-2016-02-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trails – 2016.02.03"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last fall, when I heard that Brenda Gael Smith<\/a> was curating a new textile art exhibition, a matter of time<\/a>, I decided to submit an entry. \u00a0 Although my quilt was not one of the 32 selected<\/a>, I really enjoyed the challenge, and I look forward to seeing the collection.\u00a0 One of the conditions was that we could not publish our quilts prior to the selection process.\u00a0 Now I can show you my entry – ‘Star Trails<\/strong>‘.<\/p>\n

As you probably know, I’m thoroughly entranced with circles and all the various ways I can use them in quilts. So I looked for a way to interpret the concept of time with a circular design, and I stumbled across the concept of star trails<\/a> – an amazing visual phenomena created with time-lapse photography.\u00a0 A Google search revealed a wealth of images<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For this exhibition, all quilts had to be 40cm by 100cm (approximately 16 by 39 inches).\u00a0 Given the vertical format, I decided to position the center of my circular star trails toward one side, and to put a treeline in the foreground, similar to what I did in ‘Bad Moon Rising<\/strong><\/a>‘.\u00a0 I decided on colors ranging from very dark blue to light purple, as if the time-lapse photography session started at dusk.\u00a0 Then I experimented with ways to make the star trails.\u00a0 I zigzag stitched with hologram metallic thread and pale, pastel rayon threads.\u00a0\u00a0 These didn’t look bright enough against the dark sky fabrics, so I tried stitching over thin white cord and ribbon.\u00a0 Then I remembered my white ink pen – I drew the star trails on the sky fabric with white ink, then covered the ink with zigzag stitching.\u00a0 That gave my star trails the brightness I was looking for – and made it easier to stitch in a smooth curve.<\/p>\n

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I drew my full-size design on a piece of freezer paper.\u00a0 I cut the circular sky sections apart, and ironed them to the back of the sky fabrics.\u00a0 I overlapped the seam allowances of the sky fabrics and from the back, straight stitched in the gap between the paper templates.\u00a0 Then from the front, I trimmed each seam allowance very close to stitching.\u00a0 (In the first image below, the sky pieces have been stitched together, but the paper is still pressed to the back causing those unsightly ridges.\u00a0 And I’m making sure the treeline pattern piece will cover the places where I transitioned from a darker sky fabric to a lighter one – tricky, eh?)\u00a0\u00a0 When all the sky pieces were stitched together I removed the freezer paper and zigzag stitched over each seam.\u00a0\u00a0 In some places I used thread that matched the sky fabric, and in other places I used contrasting threads for the star trails.\u00a0 Then I did additional zigzag stitching to create more star trails.\u00a0 This was all done before I layered the quilt, so I wouldn’t have to bury all the thread ends.<\/p>\n

\"Sky<\/a> \u00a0 \"raw<\/a> \u00a0 \"most<\/a><\/p>\n

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Then I layered the quilt.\u00a0 I used black eco-felt instead of batting.\u00a0 I quilted circular lines in each sky section with matching threads, and added some fainter star trails with a triple-stitch.\u00a0 The last step was to fuse the foreground trees and quilt them.\u00a0 I finished the quilt with my favorite facing method.<\/p>\n

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Even though my quilt wasn’t accepted into the exhibition, I had a lot of fun learning about star trails, and figuring out how to interpret them with fabric and thread.\u00a0 And I’m sure I will find a quilt show in the future where I can show my ‘Star Trails<\/strong>‘ art quilt.<\/p>\n

\"TAskeFull\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Thanks for stopping by.\u00a0 Today, I\u2019m linking up with these blogs \u2013 click on the links below, where you\u2019ll find many other creative projects to inspire you.<\/p>\n

\"WIP<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \"Esther\u2019s<\/a> \u00a0 \"Sew<\/a><\/p>\n

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