{"id":4077,"date":"2017-07-10T10:16:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T17:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/?p=4077"},"modified":"2017-07-11T07:10:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T14:10:29","slug":"new-art-quilt-background-2017-07-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2017\/07\/10\/new-art-quilt-background-2017-07-10\/","title":{"rendered":"New art quilt – background – 2017.07.10"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m working on the background for a new art quilt, and decided to try some techniques that are new to me.\u00a0 I decided to make the sky and water portions from strips of fabric cut freehand with a rotary cutter – but no ruler, and sewn with raw edges – no fusible web.\u00a0 I just ironed the strips to a piece of batting, overlapping them and stitched along the edges.<\/p>\n

I liked the look, but the fabrics frayed more than I had hoped.\u00a0 If I had used batiks or more tightly woven fabrics, that would have been less of a problem, but I selected the fabrics by color and pattern, not by weave.\u00a0 (I’m particularly pleased with the plaid and flower fabrics for sky, and touchs of purple.)<\/p>\n

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I considered adding more strips, possibly with fusible web to control the fraying.\u00a0 Then I remembered that bias-cut edges don’t fray!\u00a0 So, for the sky portion I cut smaller pieces as ‘clouds’, cutting the fabrics diagonally so the edges were on the bias.\u00a0 I positioned them to cover the worst of the fraying and used a bit of glue to hold them in place.\u00a0 Then I added a lot more wavy horizontal stitching lines.<\/p>\n

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And for the water portion, I added ‘waves’ cut on the bias.<\/p>\n

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I’m much happier now with my background.\u00a0 I also had to remind myself that it’s just the background.\u00a0 When I add the foreground elements, they will cover a lot of the background and draw the attention of the viewer.<\/p>\n

If you check back later this week, I’ll have added the foreground elements to this art quilt.<\/p>\n

Thanks for stopping by.\u00a0 Today, I\u2019m linking up with:<\/p>\n

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I’m working on the background for a new art quilt, and decided to try some techniques that are new to me.\u00a0 I decided to make the sky and water portions from strips of fabric cut freehand with a rotary cutter … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[14,89],"class_list":["post-4077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-quilts","category-on-my-design-wall","tag-art-quilt","tag-bias-edges"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2SZWx-13L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1925,"url":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2014\/04\/02\/on-my-design-wall-2014-04-02\/","url_meta":{"origin":4077,"position":0},"title":"On my design wall – 2014.04.02","author":"TerryAske","date":"April 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Lots of progress on the Skybridge quilt.\u00a0 After three days of fairly intense work, all the units are constructed and ready to be fused to the background.\u00a0 And I'm soooo happy with how it looks! 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