Preparing Supper for Sheila

From an old photo of my Mother peeling potatoes while my next younger sister Sheila watches with her dolly ...

... I tweaked it with a photo filter and printed it on fabric and ...

... and quilted it for a piece of fiber art. Sheila is delighted!

Preparing Supper -- 8"X11"

Linking to Nina Maria's "Off the Wall Friday."

Silo Quilt

I’m excited to be teaching a class on how I make an art quilt from a photo.

 

The sky is acting as my background and I fused the green bushes, pale grass, and road to it in that order. Then I layered the top, batting, and the backing and quilted the sky with fairly straight lines.

After quilting the green bushes with meandering circles and the grass with a straight stitch I am ready to iron my pre-made silo to the background.

Ready for detail on the silo.

Using a fine disappearing chalk marker I drew curved lines for the wire that goes around the silo and then quilted those lines with black thread.

Then I outlined the silo and chute with a triple straight stitch and added dark areas on the chute.

Finally I added the dead vines that had grown up the side, added more grass, and then quilted the road out front.

I thought maybe I could call it ‘done,’ and go ahead and square it up and bind it; but I’m thinking now that I really should add those 2 cedar trees before I call it finished. What do you think? This is a small piece, only 8”X10”.

 

Linking at WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced.
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