Share Your Quilt & Fiber Art : free motion stitching

Sunday Morning

georgygirl — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 22:34:06 GMT

"Sunday Morning" is fabric art interpretation of the view from my studio, including Fisgard Lighthouse, started in a landscape art quilting class with Susan Teece http://www3.telus.net/dteece/bentpin/ in fall 2010 - finally resurrected, reworked and finished - just have the binding left to do. Created mostly with recycled items – clothing and linens and some “salvaged fabric”.

Tulips

MissMaryMack — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:38:38 GMT

The Words Remain

What Comes Next — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:57:58 GMT

Made in response to a Tools theme in my Tangled Textiles group, I wanted to show how our methods may have changed over the years, e.g., we no longer use quill pens, but the words, remain. Although this time the tool that created the words was my sewing machine.

Thread sketching and quilting in cotton on a linen background, trapunto used on the feather quill

What duck am I

Berg-Rezmer — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:55:56 GMT

Raw edge fused using mysty fuse. I used much of my hand dyed fabric. Highlights and shadow edge I used Seta color fabric paint. Free motion stitching to finish it off. I took the original photo while in Hawaii last March. I have been trying to identify the type of duck but have not had any luck on that.

Checks & Balances: Art Quilt by Caryl Bryer Fallert

bryerpatch — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:38:42 GMT

This quilt is a visual interpretation of a philosophical concept. "Checks and Balances" is a term most of us first heard in our high school civics classes, an idea to which we aspire in government and in the world around us, and often fall short. Perhaps the best way to achieve balance is to look within or possibly create it in our art.

Size:width 93" x height 65" (236cm x 165cm)

Techniques: Machine pieced and quilted

Materials: fabric: 100% cotton / batting: 100% cellulose

Windblown by Maria Elkins

Maria Elkins — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:25:58 GMT

I just finished this quilt last week. You can read the more about it on my website at http://mariaelkins.com/index.php/2011/05/windblown/

Pineapple 2 - In a Series - http://munique.blogspot.com

marit1219 — Thu, 26 May 2011 20:20:28 GMT

You can see a picture of the completed Pineapple 2 to the right. Meanwhile, the completed concept of a pineapple that started with a sketch and developed into a water color piece is now a completed mixed media art work. Before beginning the mixed media piece, I read an article about the fusing and handwork methods used by Laura Wasilowski (http://www.artfabrik.com) of the "Chicago School of Fusing" in Quilting Arts Magazine (2010 December/2011January). Having always wanted to try fusing, I decided to give it a try. I especially liked how she fused the fabric first and then cut out the pieces. She also has developed a way to transfer a pattern to fabric by using the release paper from the fusing. It works wonderfully! After being inspired by the article, I enthusiastically visited her web site and found a plethora of advice ensure success. She has videos and still photos that teach how to embroider and how to bind the quilt using fusing in a variety of ways. She is truly an inspiration!

I used batik and other cotton fabrics; a variety of threads- variegated, quilting and embroidery; some small beads added to bring light to the pineapple surface; seta color paints to stencil the countertop; hand and machine embroidery; and hand and machine quilting. I enjoy it all, so it is fun to put it all together into one piece.

Spring Inspiration

Nancy Comer — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:54:24 GMT

Ragged-edge art quilt with appliqued yellow and purple cosmos and yellow daisies and a separately machine-embroidered dragonfly loosely hand-stitched to the upper-left of the quilt. Free-motion quilted.

Sea Island Fairy

DinahT — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:45:35 GMT

A fairy enjoying the beach on one of the islands in coastal Georgia. That's what I was aiming for, thinking about a friend who lives there.

The fairy and the background were both fabric painted in a combination of fabric paints and markers. Using a combination of applique and painting the scene was set for the fairy. The fairy is dressed for her day at the beach in beads.

Machine quilted, raw-edge applique, thread painted 19 X13.5"

Mirrored Sky

artsiehorse — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:24:31 GMT

Hand dyed fabric, painted with shiva paint sticks, discharged with jaquard paste. Machine stitched and hand embroidered. Mirrors attached with shiny red rayon embroidery floss.

well being

cousette — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:58:01 GMT

this was one of the first creative free motion stitching work that I did. I wanted to express how good I felt living by the seaside .

Poet Quilt

Genette — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:42:09 GMT

This is a quilt that I digitized from pictures of my husband's favorite poets and some of their writings. In the center is my husband. I took his picture from his drivers license. After the initial digitizing, this was quilted using free motion machine embroidery.

A Font for Patrick

DinahT — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:44:46 GMT

This was a challenge piece in several ways. First off I came up with the design for a Challenge from my quilting guild (Pecos Valley Quilters, Roswell, NM) with the theme Holiday/Season and it also works for the Forum Challenge - It's My Nature here :)

It also was a challenge in that I did a lot of Free-Motion quilting on it, at least 80%. I still have a long way to go for the technique, but it did help me a lot.

The Cross it self it made of a piece of light-weight silk that I painted with shaving cream marbling. The rest of the fabrics are commercial fabrics. I thread painted the grasses around the Font.

37" X 27"

Autumn's Glory Days

arlijohn — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:32:01 GMT

A landscape I entered in the local quilt show in the art quilt division and won 1st place. Started the quilt quite a while back but because of prior commitments had to put aside. It hung on my design wall calling my name until I finished it. The photo is not that great. I was fortunate enough to win another 1st and a judge's choice with two other quilts. This piece was rawedge fabric collage and then threadpainted freemotion style. It is heavily quilted and I had so much fun making my favorite season of color.

poconos behind glass

susanblohowiak — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:09:13 GMT

To get an even better look at what's outside without going outside, poke-your-nose (poconos) behind the glass and create a landscape art quilt with batiks.