April 2010
Finally, the new project.
I was looking for some ideas for a bedspread. There were some concepts, but I never accomplished any. On the other day I found online some Japanese Quilters Magazine and I found a bedspread that I just foul in love. I did not quite manage to make it like on the photo, but the final result was gratified.
Below there is quarter of a design.
Of course, the pattern was design in Corel (I love this program) and then printed on multiple paper sheets and then joined into one big piece. Next, I put on it a double-sided fusible web and drew a pattern. The whole quilt was supposed to be 240x240cm
It’s a beast.
When the pattern was drawn on the fusible web, it was necessary to find a fabric. And again, that was a problem to find the right one, so I decided to dye it by myself. This time I bought a dye that worked in high temperature. The intensity of the color depended on the time it was boiled in and its type.
Excellent. But I needed to achieve an ombre effect. If I put into the boiling dye the whole piece of fabric, I will get the solid tint. What to do?
I figured out.
I divided the fabric onto four portions and began to dye, following one rule: shorter the bath-lighter the color, longer the bath- more intense color.
Of course, the part with lighter colors I kept over the dish. A then I repeated the process with the part of the fabric that was supposed to be dyed in darker shade. And I repeated that four times, following the directions.
It was terribly tiring but the effect was cool.
After dyeing, I glued double sided fusible web into the fabric and cut out the pattern. (four times)
Then I glued on the pre-prepared white cotton background fabric.
I sewed together all four elements. Those who quilt on ordinary sewing machines know the pain. I planned much different quilting pattern abut there was no chance to do it on small sewing machine. Unless someone likes hand sewing.
I was quilting from the center to the edges.
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