I went and looked at my favorite blog for facing information by Brenda Gael Smith:
http://serendipitypatchwork.com.au/blog/2009/01/13/my-favourite-quilt-facing-finish/
and decided it was a tie between doing a pillowcase finish and a grass stitch satin stitch around the edges in a matching thread to the fabric underneath it. (Grass stitch is an uneven zig zag like a heart monitor line or grass profile on one side and flat on the other so you can use it to sew around the edge of quilts like a normal zig zag satin stitch).
So I cut a facing and picked out threads and finished off the shiva sticked gingko leaves.
So not very productive though I did get a refresher in the different type of finishings available and what they all look like.
Here's a pic of the shiva sticked part of the quilt. I'm not sure if I'll exhibit this one yet so can't show the whole thing.
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BINGO......the leaves look BRILLIANT!!! Well done!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Lynda, was your comment that made me brave enough to give them a try. Using Shiva on top of an otherwise finished quilt top is a bit scary! I must have cleaned the stencil about 8 times I was so worried paint would get on the quilt. Turned out it wasn't as hard as I thought - paint somehow stayed in the right place as did the stencil. :)
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful! Love your quilting too, Neroli. Well done!!!
ReplyDeleteDoesn't that look fantastic. Can't wait to see the whole thing.
ReplyDeleteThat's a lovely quilt Neroli. If it was my quilt I wouldn't bind it would either buttonhole stitch or a row of plain stitching.
ReplyDeleteThanks Fran! Lindi had the idea of doing the grass satin stitch on another bit of the purple fabric and holding in top to see if it looked ok. So simple but I hadn't thought of it at all :)
ReplyDeleteWill try that as soon as i've finished some painting I'm trying with shiva sticks and citrus turps on fabric. Hasn't started well as the palette I chose to use mustn't have been suitable foil oils (i guess i've only used it with water soluble oil paint before) and I've melted the top of it with turps! it's not more sticky white mess then expensive palette :(
Looking brilliant! The gingko leaves are perfect!
ReplyDeleteWow! Your quilting is brilliant!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jandi! The sky has quilting from my second day ever doing freemotion - my mum booked me in for 4 days of classes that I expected to dislike given my only sewing experience had featured lots of unpicking and 4 letter words :) (i'm still not good at functional sewing). The ground I only did on Thursday so it doesn't have the same problems, but when I look at the sky now (i started this about 3 years ago) I just see everywhere my thread got caught up and tried to strangle the machine - so it's really nice to hear you like it.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly doesn't follow any of those 'can't cross over a previously quilted line' rules.... but then again I don't bother trying not to do that now either, I just go with what I think will suit.
Wow this is brilliant! Your art is great and love the t-shirts! you're a talented young lady missy!
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