{"id":6476,"date":"2020-08-16T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/?p=6476"},"modified":"2020-08-16T17:45:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T00:45:44","slug":"colours-of-summer-journal-quilt-2020-08-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2020\/08\/16\/colours-of-summer-journal-quilt-2020-08-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Colours of Summer – journal quilt – 2020.08.16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week, I started working on my quilt for the annual art exchange of the Fibre Art Network<\/a>.  You can see my inspiration photos and initial fabric selection in last week’s post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I said last week, I decided to just pin the background fabrics in place rather than fusing them down (my usual technique). Then I straight-line quilted them to the green felt base. I was pleased that when I was finished quilting, I only found 2 pieces on the floor that had fallen off! I just placed them on top of the other pieces and added a few more quilting lines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I started playing with the flower fabrics. I decided to cut the squares smaller and scatter them around (photo 2). I felt I needed more colour variety, so I added orange (photo 3). Then I added purple (photo 4). As I was adding colours, I was also rearranging the other pieces – this part can be a little addictive, and I had to force myself to stop before I totally covered the background!.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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the evolution of my fabric selections for wildflowers<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At that point, I applied a tiny bit of fusible web in the center of each flower piece. This was sufficient to keep them in place while I quilted around the edge of each square. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I fused fabric to the back of the felt base to give the piece more body (and coincidentally cover my messy tread ends on the back). I finished the edges by zigzag stitching with green thread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is my finished piece. I think I have successfully captured the essence of the wildflowers that were my inspiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘Colours of Summer’ by Terry Aske<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Thanks for stopping by. Today, I\u2019m linking up with\nthese blogs \u2013 click on the links below, where you\u2019ll find many other\ncreative and inspirational projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n