Project Quilting 8.4

This week's Project Quilting Challenge is Brighter The Better. With this being Valentine's week I decided to use that is my theme and used a hot pink fabric to try out a technique from Geta Grama that I've been wanting to try. I didn't have time to do fancy quilting like Geta does, but it was fun to make and I'll be using her technique again. This project is 11" square.

Project Quilting 8.3

The theme for Challenge 8.3 is Tune in to Texture. We were to get our inspiration from the texture around us. I had plenty of ideas, but not a lot of time this week. I ended up merging two textural inspiration pieces into one project. The first was a sandcarved flower that I created back in January of 2000. The glass is sandcarved from the back in layers to create dimension. It is set in an LED lit base, which helps to show off the texture. This is still my favorite sandcarved piece.

I created a snack mat that is approx. 10x7. I'll probably never bring myself to put a snack on it though. The flower was done with fusible applique, and the quilting was done on my Voyager-17, to look like the frost on everything here this time of year.

 

It's hard to tell in the picture, but all of the fabrics are hand dyed, and have a textured look to them also.