I took a one day workshop Monday with Ann Horton on designing quilts with textured embellishments. It is too bad that it was only one day, because there was a lot of information in the class. Thread painting, digitized embroidery and textile applique ....they all sound so intimidating, but like anything else once you try it, it can be fun.
This is a picture of what I accomplished in one day. We drew out our picture first on paper, then free hand cut out our images with a scissors. For the hills and fence posts, I turned the edges under a quarter inch with an iron. Then I sewed it in place using my general foot. Do you see the negative and positive space created by the fence posts?
I changed my general foot to the free motion foot to make this butterfly. We used tear away stabilizer, drew a butterfly on it and then placed a piece of organza on top of the drawing, then hooped it all. I used three different colors on this butterfly yellow, golden and brown. I haven't done it yet, but she said to tear away the stabilizer, cut the organza and place the butterfly on your quilt.
At the top left of the top is a cut out bird from fabric that Suzi let me have. Thank you Suzi. On that last hour of class, Ann was showing us how to stitch the bird. Her sample quilt had grapes and a bird on a branch. She changed about 8 different color threads in her demonstration. Shading, outlining, choosing color to make the bird and grapes just pop out at you. The master at work. She has hours and hours of experience at doing this and made it look so easy. I wish. Another technique she showed us was to stuff the flowers and leaves with a little bit of stuffing and applique it on. Haven't gotten to that part yet.
I am going to try and finish the flowers, finish the butterfly, finish the bird and not worry about how great or not so great it looks. Try the new techniques. Wow I actually made a butterfly.
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