Happy Saturday, all! For those coming from the
Blogger's Quilt Festival with Amy's Creative Side, welcome! In addition to my
Seeing The Forest quilt, I decided to share
Snow Crab Nebula in the Art Quilt category. Gulp! For those who have seen this before, bear with me -- there are some new photos! :)
This project began with my
first snow dyeing experiment earlier this year. Yellow, ringed with red and then purple snow dyes turned this:
Into this:
This looked like one of those NASA images from space to me so I decided to see what I could do to accentuate it with some free motion quilting.
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Snow Crab Nebula - Front |
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Quilting Detail |
For the quilting, I did swirls, pebbles, wishbones, loop-d-loops, stars/satellites, and ribbons. I put the information I learned from
Angela Walter's Free Motion Quilting Negative Space class on Craftsy to good use in mixing up the swirls and pebbles and moving from one type of motif to another.
I used a variety of Aurifil colours in the yellow, orange, red and purple families (#2277, 5009, 1103, 2581, 1240, 1243, 2140 to be specific) in the front and black thread in the back. I just love the sheen of the Aurifil thread against the colours of the fabric.
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Quilting Detail |
My husband suggested I call it Snow Crab Nebula since it was created with snow dyeing. Works for me!
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Snow Crab Nebula - Quilting Detail |
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Snow Crab Nebula - Quilting Detail |
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Snow Crab Nebula - Quilting Detail |
To play with the theme, I used some solar system fabric for the back.
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Snow Crab Nebula - Back |
Final stats:
Quilt name: Snow Crab Nebula
Measurements: 19" by 21"
Special techniques: Snow dyeing, free motion quilting, non-mitred facing
Machine quilted: Free motion quilted by me!
Entering this in the
Art Quilt category for the Blogger's Quilt Festival.
Here are my entries into past Blogger's Quilt Festivals:
Thanks for stopping by! For lots more inspiration, check out the other entries in the
Blogger's Quilt Festival at Amy's Creative Side -- it's always a fabulous show. Thank you, Amy, for putting all of this together!