Quilt designer Sharon Wasteney is aware of tips on how to put lovely materials—each pre-loved and new—to good use. She collects classic ties and linens and overdyes them as impressed to go well with her distinctive quilt design visions.
We invited Sharon to provide you a behind-the-scenes take a look at her quilt design course of. Yow will discover full directions for her Blooming wall quilt design within the Love of Quilting March/April and Could/June 2024 double concern, or as an immediate digital sample obtain. Learn on for Sharon’s insights.
Making of My Blossoms Quilt
I really like designing with nature in thoughts. This challenge started as a seek for designs that will make use of the material out there in a necktie, together with my hand-dyed classic linens as background, protecting a nature theme in thoughts.
Inspiration
I take advantage of Electrical Quilt 8 for a lot of of my design inspirations, and I recognized the block proven as a risk, however it wanted to be simplified. The primary picture reveals my inspiration block from the EQ8 Library. I made a number of drafts earlier than I settled on the ultimate block.
Association and Coloration Decisions
Subsequent, I designed a quilt structure utilizing considered one of my simplified blocks.
My assortment of neckties and dyed classic linen napkins resulted on this association. Then got here the name for submissions for Love of Quilting, and it appeared like a viable concept to make this quilt in brilliant spring colours and leafy greens.
After taking part in with variations in EQ8, submitting my design, and receiving acceptance for utilizing my assortment of batiks and hand-dyed cloth, together with the material I overdyed to get the inexperienced I needed, the quilt was made.
One of many enjoyable methods was to make use of ornamental threads for the machine appliqué, together with variegated, metallic, and contrasting threads.
Auditioning the Last Structure
My design wall will not be giant sufficient for previewing, so I used the ground to finalize the structure earlier than including the sashing.
The Ending Contact: Quilting!
The ultimate contact to my Blooming quilt design is the attractive customized quilting by Heather Dodd of Quiltology.
In your enjoyment: the necktie quilt prepared for a whole lot of cloth yo-yos (it’s not going to be completed for some time).
My Workspace
My mode of operation for quilting tasks is to have no less than 5 lively tasks going and a plethora of others ready within the background. Listed below are pictures of what was instantly on my stitching desk and on the design wall after sending off my Blooming quilt for Love of Quilting March/April and Could/June 2024.
And right here is me at my machine with one other challenge to be completed on design wall within the background.
And lastly, did I say how a lot I really like threads?
Study extra about Sharon Wasteney and her designs at somethingstitched.com.
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