This quilt is made with silk charmeuse fused to cotton. The blue background is all silk as are all the flower heads and bud heads. (I love saying bud heads, living with all those boys all these years has given me a silly sense of humor.) I love working with the silk and it certainly gives the quilt a beautiful lustre and shine that cotton just can't.
Quilting on the silk is really a dream too. Once the fabric is quilted it has a delicate loft to it's appearance, giving it a very elegant look which just makes me happy. 
Certainly the colors and subject of this quilt make me happy too in this dreariest of winter months.
Certainly the colors and subject of this quilt make me happy too in this dreariest of winter months. 
4 comments:
Happy New Year, Freida, from New Zealand. I have been lurking on your blog since the symposium in Dunedin. I was not in your class but my friend was. Next time I hope!
This piece of work is superb. Lovely quilting, sympathetic to the design.
Freida,
I agree, quiulting on silk is scrumpscious. I also hand dye fabric and love dyeing silk. It always comes out so gorgeous. I just learned hiw to use my silk in my quiltsa and now that I ahve I put some silk in almost all my quilts. Thank you for your blog and sharing. Your such an inspiration.
Great! I love this quilting, so gorgeous!
Beautiful and a much needed dash of spring to go with the 8" of snow that fell last night!
Living in a house full of testosterone certainly does color one's sense of the sublime as well as silly.
teri
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