I have several hand stitching projects in various stages of production but something in me was yearning to sit at the machine last weekend.
So, I drew out some designs, shopped (a little!) and then got to construction…
The spare room has been asking for some wall art since I moved things around in the summer. Here above the bed, and hiding where a shelf used to be, is Windows1.
Here’s a close up of the matchstick quilting lines one eighth of an inch apart in an off-white shade of 50wt Aurifil thread…
That’s a lot of stitches to cover a 27″ x 54″ quilt!!
The opposite wall has a white area for projecting movies from a projector on the now non-existent shelf… (seemed like a good to James at the age of 19?). I made another quilt for that space, Windows2. It’s around 30″ by 29″.
I had a fat quarter of the Cloud 9 fabric from the Bark and Branch collection for the “windows” and pulled from my Marcia Derse fabrics for the mustard.
The quilting on this one is a grey tone on tone thread from Aurifil that I think really added an extra dimension to the open areas with some more dense straight line stitches.
The first visitors are due this evening. I hope they appreciate my new art work!
Back to the hexagons now…
Nice work! If I ever need to get away, I’ll come stay in your guest room!