WIP: Tree Quilt
My instructor, who likes things to be the colors that they are, suggested that perhaps suns aren't orange. They are yellow.
So I've got the sun appliqued down, and am now embroidering over it in the color that the sun is. (Which, really, while we're on the subject is actually white, which I know because I've looked at it. It is white, and there is a blue shadow along the left and top side, and a red shadow along the bottom and right side.)
In my awesome embroidery stitch dictionary, I found "Burden Stitch," which changes the look of the 'beam to a much stronger yellow.
The bottom thread is rayon, which I tend to try to avoid because it's generally gotten from trees in non-sustainable ways. But it was on sale, and that either makes logical sense or I'm totally rationalizing. It's very shiny, and I like how it looks. If blogger will let me upload this picture, you will see that this first attempt is not so great - the long stitches are too far apart, and because of the properties of the rayon (it's kind of stiff), they curve. Which means, if I choose to do all of this embroidery on the beams, that I will need to do each long stitch individually, and that is a LOT of knots.
But, I didn't get into quilting so that I could get things done quickly. If I'm going to pride myself on insane patience in the face of tedium, I can't back down from a challenge like that.
Okay. Blogger's rejecting the photo. So... none of this makes any sense to you because you can't see it. I'm going to go eat a bagel.
So I've got the sun appliqued down, and am now embroidering over it in the color that the sun is. (Which, really, while we're on the subject is actually white, which I know because I've looked at it. It is white, and there is a blue shadow along the left and top side, and a red shadow along the bottom and right side.)
In my awesome embroidery stitch dictionary, I found "Burden Stitch," which changes the look of the 'beam to a much stronger yellow.
The bottom thread is rayon, which I tend to try to avoid because it's generally gotten from trees in non-sustainable ways. But it was on sale, and that either makes logical sense or I'm totally rationalizing. It's very shiny, and I like how it looks. If blogger will let me upload this picture, you will see that this first attempt is not so great - the long stitches are too far apart, and because of the properties of the rayon (it's kind of stiff), they curve. Which means, if I choose to do all of this embroidery on the beams, that I will need to do each long stitch individually, and that is a LOT of knots.
But, I didn't get into quilting so that I could get things done quickly. If I'm going to pride myself on insane patience in the face of tedium, I can't back down from a challenge like that.
Okay. Blogger's rejecting the photo. So... none of this makes any sense to you because you can't see it. I'm going to go eat a bagel.
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