When I visited Quilting by the Lake Tour Day, I saw a class by
Hollis Chatelain, where she sews denim to a multicolor back fabric, quilts it, and then cuts the lines between pieces revealing the multicolor. I asked her if she had a book or video on it, but said I had to buy the pattern. I hate making an existing art pattern, but I bought it because I love denim, multicolor hand dyes, free motion quilting, and landscapes. I read it a number of times, but still am not real clear. I drew my own pattern from one of my photographs, bought some jeans at Amvets, washed and cut them up, and started. After I drew the pattern, I had to trace it in reverse and number the pieces. Then I had to trace it on freezer paper. I made sure instead of using just one color line, I drew hash lines in multiple colors to make sure I could line up all the pieces. Thanks to a class with
Pat Pauly, I was able to know to do that.
Once the pieces were ironed to freezer paper and cut out, I had to zig zag them together side by side with invisible thread. Then all the pieces had to be zig zagged together. I used my wonderful
Singer 401. The next part was awful. I had to take out the paper which of course was sewn in. In the process, a lot of the seams came apart. I would have to do that differently somehow next time. Then, I layered the denim, the multicolor hand dye, the batting and the backing together. She wrote not to spray baste, but I have no fingernails these days and could not do safety pins. So I spray basted. I thought I need to stabilize the piece, so I sewed straight stitch with invisible thread on top, Bottom Line on the bobbin around every edge at least 1/8" away from the raw zig zag edge to every piece. Now, I started to add the quilting lines and realize that I do not have enough colors, so I had to agonize deciding and place an order for some Isacord. I am waiting for the thread to continue. The pictures are my steps up to where I basted it all together. I will take some other pictures as I resume. By then, I will have calmed down from ripping paper and trying to understand the directions.
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| The Drawing |
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| Reversed drawing with numbers |
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| Pieces cut out and some sewed |
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| Partly assembled |
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| Sections together |
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| Denim together pre-ripping paper |
2 comments:
I love to find blogs that show step by step processes, because I can't afford workshops or can't always get time off work. Thanks for the detailed pictures! Hope you liked your Isacord thread, I love it, so does my machine, and it's cheaper than Aurifil. Do you live in upstate NY? I'm originally from a small town about 40 miles north of Syracuse called Pulaski.
I am in Buffalo, but in Cooperstown for a treadle conference right now. The finished quilt is on my Flickr page. I love to show people how to do something after I figure it out.
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