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Patchwork & Quilting ... Welcome to the Darkside / Picture Quilts
« on: March 20, 2023, 23:46:04 PM »
In 2015 my Auntie Joy made an art quilt for me of one of the stained glass windows at Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. She worked from photos I sent her of the glass and stonework.
Although Auntie Joy is still with us, she's getting quite frail and has macular degeneration so has lost most of her vision.
I had planned to ask her how she made the quilt today, but she fell asleep and it didn't seem the right time. Maybe we will get that chat one day.
However in the mean time I thought I might be able to learn a bit more on how these types of quilts are made as its very different to the tiled quilts.
1. How do you take a photograph (or design) and enlarge it enough to make pattern pieces for the fabrics?
2. The stained glass panels are made with the stained glass applique method, I can see the strips sewn on. I have descriptions in books that show me how to do that.
3. how might the stone work have been done? Looking closely it seems that they are borders which have been sewn round the stained glass applique panels.
4. Up at the top things get a bit complicated and perhaps several techniques were used there.
Auntie Joy was also a painter, so clearly had the artistic eye, that gene didn't make it to me though! I just got the sewing bug.
Any thoughts would be very much appreciated.
Although Auntie Joy is still with us, she's getting quite frail and has macular degeneration so has lost most of her vision.
I had planned to ask her how she made the quilt today, but she fell asleep and it didn't seem the right time. Maybe we will get that chat one day.
However in the mean time I thought I might be able to learn a bit more on how these types of quilts are made as its very different to the tiled quilts.
1. How do you take a photograph (or design) and enlarge it enough to make pattern pieces for the fabrics?
2. The stained glass panels are made with the stained glass applique method, I can see the strips sewn on. I have descriptions in books that show me how to do that.
3. how might the stone work have been done? Looking closely it seems that they are borders which have been sewn round the stained glass applique panels.
4. Up at the top things get a bit complicated and perhaps several techniques were used there.
Auntie Joy was also a painter, so clearly had the artistic eye, that gene didn't make it to me though! I just got the sewing bug.
Any thoughts would be very much appreciated.