Hi, it is me again, Sylwia 2
Sądzę, że wiele z nas ma w swoich zapasach materiały albo już zaczęte prace co do których zabrakło nam zapału lub inwencji. Leżą sobie cichutko aż nagle nadchodzi właściwy moment żeby uszyć z nich coś ciekawego.
I’d like to think that a lot of us keep boxes of unused fabrics or pieces of unfinished projects because of a
lack of enthusiasm or inventiveness. They lie quietly in storage until, suddenly, the right moment comes
to finally sew something interesting out of them.
At the Art Quilts group, I found works created by Julia Heatwole Graber. She created a very interesting
method that I decided to use. I adjusted her method a little bit to match my abilities. As I am using this
method for the first time, I decided to work on a small project, up to a maximum size of 16-17”
I chose two fabrics with contrasting colors; both were hand dyed by Sylwia Ignatowska.
The darker fabric is the background fabric and is also used as the back, and the lighter one is the top
fabric.
I put the grit on my lighting table, glued it on, put the background fabric, the dark one.
Now it’s time to work with the top fabric. I used some scraps that I kept in my ‘save-it-for-later’ box. I
used some double-sided fusible web on it and then cut it into 1” strips, and then 1” squares.
I started arranging 1” squares according to the template I drew up earlier. As you can see the distance between little squares is ¼”
Ironing through baking paper.
I made a sandwich and went to work. For the quilting, I chose multi-colored threads in white and blue
tones.
I quilted the top with waving lines using walking foot, on one way.
Quilting waving lines in the other direction.
This is how the back looks like, and you can also see the thread I used in the bobbin.
This is the butterfly that has been waiting for its time to shine for over 3 years now. I stuck my mother’s
colorful scarf under its wings. I glued it to some double-sided interlining and cut along the edges.
Nothing can be wasted, so I put back the rest of the web back on the paper.
I saved the leftovers of the web by rolling it on to an empty paper towel roll.
The butterfly, stuck to the front, quilted along the edges only.
Finished. My husband stretched the butterfly onto a wooden frame. Size 15”x15”
think that this method is very interesting and is worth working on larger projects with more colors.
Next week Sylwia is back and she is going to give us a tour around her renovated sewing studio. I cannot wait.
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