"Three Wishes," 9.75" x 34", made for Project Quilting Season 4, Challenge 5: Print Publications, Mar. 2013
Quick recap of the challenge:
"Print Publications"
1. Chose a print publication and open to page 28. Your inspiration must come from this page.
I must admit
that this wasn’t the first magazine page I looked at. The first one was an ad for
the National Geographic Channel’s special “Killing Lincoln” which was 90% black
with very little images and text. The second one was only text, it was the
legalese that went with a prescription drug ad. Last week I gave away over a
hundred “American Craft” and “Fiber Arts” magazines going back to 1998…if only
I’d known what this week’s challenge was going to be!
Then I
remembered there were about two dozen or so pages that I’d removed from the magazines
before I gave them away. I pulled out those pages and sure enough there was a
page 28 on the back of an article that I was interested in. Page 28 had an article
about wallpaper that isn’t what it seems. The example has flowers with tiny
white bombs falling in front of them. This article was from the Nov./Dec. 2005
issue of Fiber Arts.
My first
thought was to make a fabric mosaic with three parts: a blue square, an orange
square, and a red square. I usually put my fabric mosaics in a frame but I
didn’t have any that were the right size so I thought I’d piece them on a light
colored background. I started looking through my massive fabric stash only to
find I’d recently used up all my light neutral fabrics and I didn’t really want
to use a white background.
I pulled out
a box that had non-quilting cottons and found a home décor fabric that was the
right shade and decided that I liked the back of the fabric even better because
it had great texture. Also from that box I chose three bright, shiny purple and
pink woven fabrics which look different depending on the angle that you look at them. At this point I abandoned my original plan to use the colors from page
28. I also took out some deep velvet that has blues, greens and purples in it,
and a dark brownish purple wrinkly taffeta.
I sandwiched
the home décor fabric and the back fabric with some wool batting and quilted
some wavy horizontal lines with two different colors of purple thread then I
quilted around the outside of the quilt a few times to finish the edges. The
top and bottom edges are frayed and fringy.
I sewed the
dark brownish purple across the middle leaving the extra width hanging over
each side. I put some extra batting behind the shiny purple squares, appliquéd them to the background, and quilted them with a
square spiral. Then I appliquéd the three velvet squares on top of the shiny
ones. The two photos above show the different colors in the velvet.
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As always, you can click on any photo to see it larger.
To see other entries for this challenge, visit the
Print Publications page.
Jennifer Chiaverini's recent book "The Giving Quilt," which I reviewed here, will be released in paperback this week on April 2. To celebrate this release, I am giving away two copies of her book PLUS two sets of three of the Elm Creek Quilts pins pictured above ("Sonoma Rose", "The Giving Quilt," and "The Wedding Quilt.")
