New Quilt Art (and it's for sale!)

Finally finished this wall art landscape quilt! I started it about 3 or 4 years ago in a class at the AQC on painting fabrics with Beth and Trevor Reid, not that I finished up doing any painting in the class, but I did start designing and fusing the landscape and quilting the sky. Typical of me to work on something quite different from the rest of the class.

 

  'Solcea' 71x85cm (28x33.5")  $375   click pics to enlarge.

Hand dyed and commercial cotton fabrics, satin, fusible web, metallic foil, Shiva oil paint sticks, decorative and metallic quilting. Satin grass stitch edging.

The moon is the one I featured in the foiling tutorial on this blog.

I've made up a new page (you'll see it up in the RHS under the 'Pages' heading) called artwork for sale and have made PayPal buttons for each of the pieces I've included so far. More will be added soon!

Would love to find a good home for this piece, there is a hanging tube sewn into the back for easy display and a signed label has been stitched in as well.

Postage is free, as with all artworks on the for sale page. (Mostly because then I don't have to work out how much it would be for different countries!)

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Tutorial - Foiling Fabric

I needed to create a moon for an art quilt I'm currently working on. I wanted something that really glimmered and shone but still had some texture. After toying a few different ideas (lumiere paint, tyvek, lutrador, angelina layers, textiva, glass organza, rainbow shimmer chiffon etc etc) I decided to use some silver glitter white cotton layered with some jones tones foil.

The foil is washable and can be put down in a few ways. I used heat and bond fusible web to get a flat even coverage.

Here's how:

1. You will need: Non stick baking paper, backing fabric, jones tones foil (from spotlight or speciality art / craft / textile stores), fusible web, scissors and an iron.

2. Layer your backing fabric (right side up), and fusible web (paper side up) between baking paper. Iron to fuse the web to the fabric. Use the dry setting on your iron.

I used a heavier weight fusible web as I didn't want any areas without foil. A lighter weight like misty fuse or vliesofix will only have the foil adhere to the lines of web. This can give a nice effect but wasn't what I wanted for this.

 

3. When cool peel off the backing paper. This will have given the fabric a very shiny laminated type effect that can be useful in itself. However we're going to use this to adhere the foil to.

4. Place the foil, shiny side up on top of the web covered fabric. Still work between baking paper to protect the iron and quickly press to glue to the web. Be careful not to iron for very long as you will change the foils texture and lessen its iridescence.

5. When cool peel off the shiny cellophane top layer from the foil. The foil itself should have stuck firmly to the web. If it hasn't you may need a little more heat from the iron.

6. Trace the design you wish to cut from your newly foiled cloth onto it's back. I used a water soluble marker in case it showed through on the edges, but a light line with a grey lead should work fine too.

7. Ta Dah! One moon. I attached mine to the quilt with Vliesofix before stitching. I kept heat on for longer then i should have when ironing this directly to the foil and you can see the change in texture. Since the irridescence is still intact and I was aiming to add texture with stitching anyway I decided it actually worked well for what I wanted. You can see how it differs from the original foiling as I have placed a piece of that to the left of the moon.  I've used a holographic silver thread for the freemotion quilting.

You can also foil by layering it on top of bonding powder for a glittery effect or rubbing it over dry glue like Jones Tones Plexi glue for a 3D raised effect. Share