Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Cameo quilting

Hi, I know it's been a long time.  I am eager to share a new project that I made last weekend.   I will share how I made it so you too can make a cameo quilt.




I took a photo of the cameo and changed it to black and white in Photoshop.  Then I printed it out onto 4 sheets of paper using Posterazor App.  Taped the papers together to make a large pic.


 Now I used tracing paper to outline the lines that I wanted to quilt on.


 Here is the tracing paper without the picture behind it.  I see I missed a little bit of her head scarf - no biggie, I filled it in.



 Now I have a piece of creamy radiance fabric on top of the tracing paper which is on my lightbox.  I then lightly traced the lines onto the radiance with a pink prismacolor pencil.




I backed the fabric with two layers of wool batting and a piece of purple silk for the backing.  I then quilted all the lines with a pink Glide thread.  




I enhanced some of the creases with cherry pink tsukineko ink and a fantastik applicator




 She's about 15 inches tall and 10 inches wide.



 Here's the back with the purple silk and no paint.

This was a fun project and was just a test sample for a larger piece that I hope to share soon.  Thanks for dropping by, Karen

3 comments:

  1. Quite a lovely finish! Ave you ever tried using silk for the top fabric, I would think it would look lovely. Thank you for your linkup with TGIFF.

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  2. This is amazing!!!! I love this idea and can't wait to try making one. Hmm, actually 2. Maybe matching pillow cases for a bride & groom?

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