Allô and welcome 😊 I hope that you've had a good week. In Ottawa, we had lots of sun, even humidity, but after yesterday's poring rain, fall seems to be here. It looks like the trees changed drastically overnight. 🍁 The cold to freezing night temperatures may have something to do with it. It's all very beautiful.
The pink turtlehead flowers art piece
Last week you saw the beginning of the pink turtlehead flowers art piece. I was able to work on it a little. I like it much better and it's coming along nicely. I'm even looking forward to my next piece using fabric coils. Here's what it looks like now.
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| Pink turtlehead flowers |
Before it got dark outside, I pinned the fabric to the canvas and took some pictures outside. It makes such a difference in the colours. It was also good to see how it's coming along at the edges after being pinned to the canvas. As I had mentioned, I had used a running stitch to very loosely mark the sides. Now I'll be able to use this photo to ensure that the sides are nicely covered.
Here's another photo that I took of the pink turtlehead flowers while on another walk. I guess what I love about this flower is the contrast in the greens of the leaves and flower, and those gorgeous pink petals.
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| Pink turtlehead flowers |
I don't have much more to share, so here is another photo of the art piece.
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| Pink turtlehead flowers - photo taken in the back yard |
Last but not least, Poppy chilling on the couch as I work on the piece.
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| Poppy chilling |
What I learned- Once I unstitched the coils from the top left side, it became obvious that I just needed to add more leaves to the piece.
- I've been making the fabric coils as I watch TV - it's the perfect place to do these, now that it's cooler outside. When I stitch the coils onto the background fabric, I listen to a podcast or an audiobook.
- I haven't had much time to work on this piece but it will be finished for the Out Of The Box (OOTB) Fibre Artist's Fall Fling sale.
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Off The Wall Friday,
Finished (Or Not) Friday,
Patchwork & Quilts,
15 Minutes to Stitch 2025,
Oh Scrap!,
Design Wall Monday Slow Sunday Stitching,
Free Motion Mavericks
Welcome to week 552 of Free Motion Mavericks! Thanks for linking up. Since I missed a few weeks, I've decided to feature projects from the last two weeks that included FMQ, ruler work or walking foot quilting. I'll start with the most recent.
Donnalee finished two lovely
pumpkin placemats. Aren't they cute? We may be seeing a few more of these soon!
Gwyned Trefethen has been busy learning how to use her new Bernina 990. She used it to embroider 3 practice pieces. She then put those pieces together to
make a runner.
Here is one of the
practice blocks that she embroidered and then FMQ. She quilted around the leaves and flowers, then micro quilted in tiny loops.
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Gwyned FMQ around the leaves and flowers
then micro quilted in tiny loops. |
Kat of Scrapbox Quilts finished three lovely Lil bear hug quilts. The quilt tops were donated and she finished and then quilted them.
Gail of Quilting Gail made this
gorgeous quilt using Island Batik fabric line, Splish Splash. Gail "used Silly Moon’s 4″ Beanie to create the orange peel flowers in the neutral squares. Each short and each long strip was quilted differently" with rulers and FMQ. "There are swirls, loops, circles, feathers, flowers, hearts, squares, ribbons and many many more." You'll want to
check out her post for the closeup photos.
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| Gail's quilt using Splish Splash fabric line |
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| Closeup of the FMQ by Gail - as seen from the back |
Melva took one of her first quilts from the cedar chest to place on the guest room bed. It was a cross-stitched wild rose quilt, made with 7 cross-stitched panels. Melva quilted it as a quilt-as-you-go, long before she knew what that was.
It's now your turn! 😊Sorry for the mix up - I managed to put 12 pm as opening instead of 12 am. It's all fixed. Let's party!🎈🎉🥳
The tulip piece is really developing beautifully. That pink with the deep green is really striking.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Kate. I'm really happy with it, finally :-)
DeleteYour pink turtlehead floral piece is progressing nicely. So much fun to watch a piece evolve. Thank you for featuring my FMQ, once again.
ReplyDeleteThanks Gwyned. I hope that you'll see the finished pink turtlehead flower this week. It's really coming along and I'm looking forward to working on something else! Take care.
DeleteYour flowers look great and that's a lovely photo of Poppy :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Janine. There have been so much photo opportunities with Poppy staying with us - although most of the pictures are very similar. She had turkey yesterday for Canadian Thanksgiving....boy was she impressed!
DeleteLOVE your pink turtlehead piece. So fun and interesting. Thanks for sharing with us at Monday Musings.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Brenda. I'm really hoping that it'll be finished soon....I love it but itching to start playing on other projects!
DeleteJ'aime voir ta nouvelle oeuvre grandir, elle est très belle. Bravo !
ReplyDeleteMerci beaucoup Frédérique. J'aime bien la voir grandir aussi :-) Elle est presque finie. Yay!
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