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Embellished Landscape - In Progress

5/6/2012

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At last I've managed to find time to get the pieces of this "Embellished Landscape" wall hanging sewn together and quilted.  All the pieces have been joined together, and the next stage was to complete the quilting - I decided to use a mixture of straight row quilting, using a walking foot, and free motion quilting using a darning foot.  This was originally started a few weeks ago, when I took a class with Helen Howes. I wouldn't have been brave enough to tackle the spiral shape of the free-motion quilting on the moon appliqué before, but after my week away with Philippa, I'm brave enough to tackle anything!!  I just need to add some gold foil to the moon, but decided to get the quilting finished before I do that as it's going to be a bit tricksy.....

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.....lots of curved rows of quilting with a walking foot. This gives a lovely texture to the wall hanging, and I used some scraps of my favourite cream fabrics for these "fields" and I have used Mettler quilting threads, in various shades of cream and white to blend and contrast with the background fabrics..... .....

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.....the faux chenille was great fun to make, and once it was washed and dried it has really fluffed up - and I'm really pleased with the confetti block. As you can see, I used a gold metallic thread for a few rows of quilting.....

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.....the pleated strip was attached, then it was quilted in the opposite direction to the pleats, again giving some texture to the wall hanging, and I used a curved cross hatch quilting design on the final piece - a block made up with a variety of fabrics that were cut into 2½" squares. 
The 3-D appliquéd leaves will be sewn onto this block once the binding is finished as a final flourish. I really like all the textures on this project - it makes you want to touch it and stroke it...

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..... all the pieces are finally pieced together and quilted and the binding is on - I always hand sew the binding to the reverse  - I like finishing it off by hand. This time I machine-stitched a label directly onto the back of the wall hanging, rather than sew it into a corner - oh and I've embellished the confetti block with a few cream beads too. Only a few finishing touches left - adding the gold foil to the moon applique and the 3-D leaves and then it will be finally completed. More pictures as soon as the leaves are made!

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Mara link
8/6/2012 04:41:28 am

This looks amazing Nicola. Really beautiful. We'll have to meet up sometime so I can see it for real.

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