Bloom.
Maker.
A play on words of the fabric collections used in my April assignment--Adventurous Applique--for Island Batik Ambassadors. Blushing Blooms has a gorgeous range of colors in the red-pink-purple ending with orange range. I also used them in Happy Soul last month. Maker is a cool graphic fabric collection from Art Gallery Fabrics--this one is from my personal stash and not supplied by Island Batik. But I so wanted to use it here as the colors were perfect and I wanted to show that mixing contemporary print fabrics with gorgeous batiks can bring about an amazing finished product!!
I started out by sewing 2 1/2" squares together for the petal shapes. I know you are going to ask--Terri--why did you cut apart fabric and sew that same fabric back together??? Well, I didn't want the background to look like just a big plain piece of fabric.
Can you see the slight variations of color in the 2" squares on the right. This happens because the weave of the fabric is turned in different directions when those same colored squares were sewn back together. I know it is just slightly different--and it might not be super noticeable--but it gives just the right amount of color change and visible texture with the seams to give the project life.
Who doesn't love a closeup!!!
Petals all ready to go!!
If you were paying close attention, You would have noticed that I had the table runner all loaded up on my longarm--ready to quilt--but the petals were nowhere to be seen. That is because I wanted to try a new technique--aka too much in a hurry to put fusible web on petals before cutting them out!!!
Elmer's glue stick to the rescue. After gluing the petals in place, I planned the quilting path to include appliqueing them down while quilting. By doing this I never had to break thread--which is a long arm quilter's dream.
The circles were added as my intersections were a bit too messy for my liking--but a happy addition to the finished product!!
The new growth of spring blooms are starting to appear here in NW Iowa, so I couldn't resist some photographs of them with Bloom Maker.
I'm going to make everything around me beautiful, that will be my life!!!
5 comments:
Really pretty.
What a happy looking quilt - just beautiful! ~smile~
Roseanne
So adorable
What a clever way to create this quilt. So many things to love--your pieced background (I agree, it's worth it), the lovely use of petals, and the clever way you quilted the piece and the applique at the same time. Thank you so much for linking up!
You have created a beautiful bloom maker. The steps which you have shared in the pictures are showing you are an expert bloom maker and you made it very neatly. I also want to learn this art work, kindly do refer me some good academy. Thanks
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