Breaking through Negativity

This week's Project Quilting Challenge was "Hope". 
I titled mine "Breaking Through Negativity"

I always create a personal challenge for myself for the Project Quilting Challenges. For this one, it was to do hand sewing on at least part of my quilt.

I reinforced the fabric for the raw edge applique with light heat and bond.

I cut my bird first. . .

and hand stitched it onto one of the four fabric background pieces.

Next I hand stitched the stones into place on the background pieces.

Next I reinforced the background fabric with lite heat and bond to iron/press it onto another background fabric for a layered look!

I free motion quilted it with my longarm machine, with wavy and wiggle lines and out lining on the bird.

I selected to use a double batting  of 80/20 - cotton/poly on the bottom and a washable wool as the top layer to give it more dimension.

After quilting, I trimmed the quilt, leaving about a 1/2 inch to create a frayed edge.

I carefully trimmed away the 2 layers of batting.

I used the scissors to cut tiny slits in the edge to created the frayed look.

 My quilts measures 15" across by 11".

Check out all the beautiful quilts that were created this week over at Project Quilting! Oh and vote for your favorite quilts!

I am sponsoring Project Quilting again this year, making this my 9th year to giveaway Prizes! Here is the Prize Post that tells about all the prizes you have a possibility to win by creating a quilting in one week!


My Prizes are:

Marcia’s Crafty Sewing & Quilting is donating a “Longarm Quilting Gift Certificate” for $50.00 off the Quilting on a Lap size quilt or larger. (Lap, Twin, Full, Queen, or King) from  Crafty Sewing & Quilting. Check out Marcia’s FAQQS Frequently Asked QUILTING Questions Page on her website.

The Gift Certificate will be good for 6 months. If you win, Marcia will do an estimate based on the size of your quilt top, quilting choices, thread choices, and batting choices and if they would like to purchase backing fabric from her. Winner can send backing fabric and batting with their quilt top, but she does have it available. This way the winner will have a good estimate of the value of the quilting prize.

AND

I give a PRIZE to EVERYONE!


Marcia of Crafty Sewing and Quilting would also like to giveaway a prize of one of her Original PDF Downloadable Patterns to each and every participant for this challenge! 
To make it simple after you enter your quilt in the link up, you should email Marcia —  Marcia@craftysewing.com and tell her that you just linked up and the name of your quilt project. She will then email you instructions on how to select a pattern for your prize and then she will email it to you directly. (values up to $8.00)

Enjoy your day!


Marcia

"The Barn Quilt"

The Barn Quilt is traveling around and is on display through September. It is currently on display at the Old Oak Inn in Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin and then it will be at Timberlanes Coffee House and Gallery in Boscobel, Wisconsin during the month of August. If it gets accepted in the Madison Quilt Expo, it will be in Madison, Wisconsin for that quilt show in September.

I combined three photos to create the "Barn Quilt". It was a custom order. The barn is to represent my customer's family barn. It was from a photo she took. The photo on the left is of a landscape quilt, I had made for a Project Quilting challenge, and the photo in the center of my customer's cupola. Plus they have tons of pine trees!

On display at Old Oak Inn.

Here's how I created it!

My husband took a photo when I was quilting it.

I quilted my name in the corner - Marcia 2017

I flipped it over so you can see the back of "The Barn Quilt".

This is another quilt that I created in a similar way. Here is a link to the post all about the "My First Bloom Quilt" and how I created it.

This is the Barn Quilt from a Project Quilting Challenge and the link to that post: "If I Had a Barn...."

Enjoy your day!

Marcia

Thread Painted Barn Quilt Made From Photos

I took 3 photos and created a very personal quilt for a customer.  She sent me a photo of her favorite barn. I took a photo of the cupola and bike in her yard.  She wanted a farm windmill with morning glories like the quilt I made a couple of years ago.  I combined all 3 photos to make an art quilt for her.

The 3 photos.

  

Click here to the link to the post about the "If I had a Barn Quilt"

I only took a few photos of the construction. Sometimes I forget to take photos.

I first cut out wheels for the bike from fabric. I didn't like them, so I decided it would be best to thread paint them instead. I used sharpie markers to draw and fill in where I would thread paint it.

Next it was ready to quilt/thread paint.

I used a double batting - 80/20 cotton/poly on the bottom and washable wool on the top. It gave it more dimension for the thread painting.

The day I was quilting/thread painting the Barn Quilt, my husband took a photo of me. I needed a photo to display with my art quilts.

I took several photos of the quilting/thread painting up close. On the first one, you can see my name and the year stitched into the black border.

  

This quilt is on display for the month of February at Old Oak Inn in Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin and then it will go to it's new home of my customer.

This is the sign I have on the quilt:

“Barn Quilt”  28” X 26”

SOLD but you can order one from your own barn photos.

This one was designed from 3 photos – of a barn, 

a windmill, and a copula. 

My original quilt design using photos. 

Freestyle Quilting and Thread Painting by Marcia Wachuta

Crafty Sewing and Quilting  www.craftysewing.com

Do you have a favorite photo of a place or a flower or something? (but not a person) 

Would you like it made into a Thread Painted Wall Hanging?

My email is Marcia@craftysewing.com

Here are a few more posts of photos that I turned into quilted wall hangings.

Click here to see my post about my First Bloom Quilt and how I created it.

It was made this quilt from this photo.

The next quilt was made for a quilt challenge and had to be all BLUE!  I based it on Vincent van Gogh's vase of flowers.

Click here to see the post about "Daisies for Grandmama"

Click here to see how I created my "Blue Carolina Lily Quilt" from a drawing.

Here is my drawing for the Blue Lily.

Click here to the link to the post about the "If I had a Barn Quilt"

Enjoy your day!

Marcia