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Topic: Little Red Boat in the Big Black Sea (FO #2! Plus 2 bonus quilts!)  (Read 6394 times)
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« on: February 21, 2008 03:34:11 PM »

Hey, I got another quilt done!  Hooray!  Again, it's another small wallhanging, about 21" x 27".  I'm calling it Little Red Boat in the Big Black Sea, for reasons that will soon become apparent.  Smiley



The fabric is all cotton that I dyed.  I finished the top in late spring of 2005, and was one of, if not the last, quilting things I did before The Great Hiatus.  It was the first time I did anything in this style before (most of my stuff before this was largely geometric using bright, bright colors, typically orange and blue).  Anyway, if I get back to piecing together quilts, this is more along the lines of things I'd like to do.

Here's a detail shot, and one of the back:





The back is kind of messy, and there's a fold in some of the backing fabric where my basting went wrong, but I tacked it down and I think it's okay now.  Besides, it's a wallhanging, so no big deal.

The swirls in the sky are stitched using 4 different colors of thread, including a metallic silver (which really sucked to use, so there's only a few swirls of it).  After it was quilted and bound, I went ahead and added the beads in the centers of the swirls to make the stars.  Sewing on the beads was kind of a pain to do, too.  Tongue

I learned a lot doing this quilt, which is cool.  Specifically, I'm not too crazy about how tripped out the sky looks.  In retrospect, I would have used black and dark gray thread instead of the lighter grays and metallic I used.  However, I didn't have any dark gray on hand, and I'm trying to use up the supplies I have before buying new ones.  I actually dyed the same gradation of grays in silk, with the thought of maybe replicating this quilt in silk at some point.

Since I've finished 2 wallhangings, and have limited space in which to hang things in my house, I've moved some stuff around.  So I took a few pictures of some of the older quilts I completed that I had hanging up.  The first is a paper-pieced version of the county courthouse where I live.  Commercial fabrics, but the pattern is my own.  Smiley



I made that in February (I think) of 2003.  The other one was made in March or April, I think, of 2005.  This one is pretty typical of a lot of the stuff I did, using the hand-dyes and going heavily on basic geometry, except it uses machine embroidery (the butterflies) and some yarn embellishment, which was kind of a new thing for me.



You'll notice the blue and orange theme.  I think for about 2 straight years, everything I did featured bright blue and orange together.  It was madness! 
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« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2008 03:47:35 PM »

Wow, those are beautiful. I really like the first one.
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« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2008 03:52:56 PM »

That first one is stunning. I've always been put off quilting by the cutesy/quaint aura that surrounds it, but that's really... modern.
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« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2008 04:06:24 PM »

Gorgeous, and truly inspiring (and not just because I'm a sucker for anything with a sky or water theme, and here you've got them both).  You do exceptional work.
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« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2008 04:42:42 PM »

oh man, i love all your creations

lufah! lufah!!!  Cool
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« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2008 05:25:59 PM »

I absolutely love the first one! So gorgeous! Cheesy
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« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2008 05:43:29 PM »

so beautiful!
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« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2008 06:42:53 PM »

Oh my gosh...I love the Little Red Boat in the Big Black Sea entirely.  You should really submit it to something prestigious, Art Quilts or a prominent quilt show.  Absolutely breathtaking.
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« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2008 07:37:26 PM »

OH the boat! and the SEA! i LOVES it!
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« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2008 07:47:45 PM »

Oh my this is stunning!
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