BULK PACK! Leaves, leaf, fall, autumn, appliques. This packet consists of 100 tiny leaves (not quite 2 inches long), in gorgeous spring/summer greens. They are precision die cut from premium quality 100% quilt cotton prints, and TEMPORARILY fused to make sewing much easier! Iron in place with a dry iron, and machine outline stitch with your favourite method. Perfect for tree wall hangings, similar to second photo, cottage decor, or jackets, sweatshirts, quilts, placemats, table runners, tote bags, etc. Great for beginner applique! Wonderful timesaver! Third photo was sent to me by a happy customer! NOTE: These applique leaves are also available in assorted autumn/fall colours on my other listings! I also have jumbo leaves available in greens! To ensure consistent quality, all of my products are created by me in a smoke free, pet free home. Thank you for visiting. Here is a link to my shop, where you may find something else that interests you! https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/JustMeToo?ref=seller-platform-mcnav
Pieced by Pat Collins. Quilted by Jessica's Quilting Studio
3 Hour Workshop Project I've been working on a project I'm submitting to the Wisconsin Quilt Expo next fall (2015) for one of their "Hands On" workshops. This is a class I regularly teach at guild meetings, but since fabrics change so much every year or so I have to make the same sort of quilt again. In this blog, I'll show you some of the steps I took making it. Background fabric The first thing I did was to choose a background fabric. This is a fat quarter of a variegated fabric which will work great for suggesting atmosphere and a forest floor. I knew I wanted to use the golden leaves I blogged about last time, and their color really kicked with this blue/green background. Plus, one of my favorite fall scenes is when just a tree or two has turned while everything else is green. I love that color combination! Background foliage I choose 3 background foliage prints. How NOT to arrange tree trunks Am I building a forest or a jail scene? Lol, don't arrange your tree trunks like jail bars. In my previous blog I showed you how I use dye markers to highlight and shade tree trunks. Since this class is mainly for students to learn how to use these tools and to build up their confidence, most of this scene is tree trunks. (When I teach this class, I bring all of the markers so students only have to buy the fabric kit.) A better arrangement of tree trunks Usually when you make a forest scene, you cut out a bunch of 'messy' cut background foliage before you add your tree trunks. These messy patches are glued down in a random fashion to suggest background leaves and shrubs. Since the important part of this quilt is the tree trunks, I added them first. Messy cut shapes I use the right and the wrong side of fabrics when I cut out these shapes. Notice the shapes - they are not round oval blobs. This is the hardest part of making these landscapes if you ask me. (And I think most of the students in my landscaping classes agree!) Finished arrangement Once everything is glued down (I use a simple glue stick), it is time to stitch the applique patches in place. I use a monofilament thread - using the light/clear with the birch trees and the dark colored nylon for the elm trees. At least I think they are elm. :) Once things are stitched down, I take the quilt top to my cutting board and square up the corners and edges. Then I sew on border fabrics, baste and quilt. Borders added, quilting done. When I finished the quilt, I didn't like the top so much. Those gold leaves weren't quite right with all the greens in the fabrics. Sooo... I added MORE leaves. *Cue Music* It's my party and I can add if I want to. 3 Hour Workshop - Finished (Click for a bigger image if you'd like.) As always, questions and comments are welcome! (And I head back to my happy place where I figure out what I want to do next!)
Quilt exhibit at Manawatu Quilt Conference in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Jan 2015.
Last year I started making what I refer to as my “Tree” quilts. They have a touch of realism to them which seems to attract buyers. In addition to the sunset quilts, these are my best sellers of a particular design. Since every quilt is unique and I don’t use patterns, I continue to experiment Read the full article...
I have mixed emotions about summer being over. Not that I did anything fun or special this summer, but would like if the season stayed a little longer. Then you have days where a big baggy sweater, leggings and comfy couch sounds wonderful. Well I think I should explain what happened during my absence. I had these lofty idea of creating and posting everyday...that sort of happened except for the posting. There are MANY unfinished projects that I did work on. I have decided to work on finishing some of them up and share. This is an art quilt that Sue at A Stitch of Country has wanted me to explore. It is from the book Radiant Landscapes:Transform Tiled Colors & Textures in Quilts by Gloria Loughmam. Here is the class sample. Sue and I have decided to offer this as a class at her shop. I must share all shading is done with Copic markers...so look closely to the trees and leaves. I will show you a few tricks, I would love to have you at the class, but if you are unable to attend please share if you have read this book and tried some of Gloria quilts. Happy Tuesday, now back to sewing! Judy
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Leaf Flakes by Sharon Nemirov (Yes, these are fabric leaves)
Colors flow and fade like the seasons in this unbe-leaf-able design from Susan Geddes. If you love scrap quilts and playing with color, this is the pattern for you!
After getting started on two big leaf quilts, things went pretty smoothly. (The photos in this post show the left quilt.) Having previously drawn the design on a large piece of muslin, I auditioned which green to use where. Can you believe I had to buy MORE fabric? Very unexpected. Here’s the final arrangement of […]
I finished piecing together Tessellated Leaves this morning. I really love how it came together! Photographing this large quilt is a bit of a challenge. At 104ʺ wide by 116ʺ long, I wasn’t su…
The raffle quilt for the Assiniboine Circle Quilter's quilt show is off my design wall and at the longarmer's to be quilted. Thousands of...
Tokyo Quilt Show 2009 - January 24th at Tokyo Dome City. Photos by Tempusmaster - Robots Dreams (www.robots-dreams.com)
Click on the image for sizes, prices, and availability. Samples of quilts previously sold are also included. If you are interested in purchasing a quilt, please visit my ETSY website: www.etsy.com/shop/artquiltsbysharon . Please contact me [email protected] if you are interested in a custom quilt. I can make custom quilts similar to many of these designs in the colors and sizes you prefer. Newest Read the full article...
“Not so grey Autumn” by Bozena Wojtaszek. Love! Bozena made this art quilt for a client, so it has a happy home. You gotta visit her Etsy shop Bozena Wojtaszek: Textile Art for your Hom…
Every autumn I feel a strong urge to make a seasonal quilt because I love the gorgeous colour. So, this year's autumn project is taking shape on my design wall: Falling... ... and falling... ... and falling... ... and falling... ... and falling... ... and falling... ... and falling... ...and ready to put the blocks together now! It took me about two weeks to piece the blocks, with a little break as I ran out of teals by the end of road and had to replenish supplies. The blocks are machine curve piecing, the same technique as I showed in these tutorials: one and two, but here each block is different, just hand-drawn in actual size on a piece of paper tablecloth as you can see in the photos. The whole top is going to be about 1 by 1.5 meters. As usual the questions remains how to quilt it, but I hope it won't take too long. Have a beautiful autumn wherever you are! Linking up to Off the Wall Friday at Creation by Nina-Marie Can I get a Whoop Whoop? at Confessions of a Fabric Addict
A quilt story I really want to tell.
The blocks are real; the quilt is virtual. Blogged here. Read about the blocks here.
The end of the quarter is fast approaching, so it's time to finish the projects on my Q3 to do list and get ready to link them up with Adrianne from On The Windy Side next week. One of the things on my Q3 to do list was this mini tree quilt. I finished it a few weeks ago and it's hanging in my family room now (which is also my sewing room). I bought the pattern and shot cottons from Jenny Hunter of Plume Art when she came to speak at our guild a few months ago. Jenny bought her original version along to show us, amongst many other beautiful quilts she has made. Jenny Hunter's mini tree quilt It was the first time I'd made anything like this, and I really enjoyed the process. There's both applique and reverse applique in this quilt. I machine quilted it with green Aurifil thread. The finished quilt is 30" x 15". I'm quite happy with how it's turned out, especially as it was my first attempt at an art quilt. I'll be posting another finish tomorrow - that means all four things on my Q3 list got finished. Time to start thinking about Q4 now.
This is a discountinued, Square by Design panel Leaves Tree. Measures approximately 25" x 25". Designs are embroidered into the heavy beige linen. Grab these while they last. See other designs in multiple listings. Also, shown is a coordinating backing fabric. That is a great match to this product.
The Tree of Life Wall hanging design comes in four different sizes - 4x4, 5x5, 6x6 and 7x7 hoops. This is a machine embroidery design and all sizes are included in your purchase. There 5 different blocks in this design (Trunk, Branch, End Branch, Tree Top and Leaves blocks) as well as flipped/mirrored variations of each. The blocks are sewn in the hoop and then joined and backed with your sewing machine. Instructions are provided to create your own wall hanging of any size. There are no final dimensions included for this wall hanging design as it is intended for you to make your hanger as you would like it. Please keep in mind that our hanger is a sample layout/size only. Full photo instructions and directions are included with your purchase. It is our intention to offer you the best service always and for our designs to be the highest quality. Designs are provided in 9 different embroidery formats. The formats included are: DST, EXP*, HUS, JEF, PEC, PES, VIP, VP3 and XXX. *BMP and INF files are also provided, these are recommended to be used with the EXP files for Bernina machines. SVG files are included for cutting machines. Please note the SVG format can be converted to FCM within the Brother Scan n Cut software if required. Sweet Pea Machine Embroidery Designs Cutting Files Disclaimer - click here Instruction are included in English. We test and review each of our designs to ensure the highest quality. Depending on what hoop, fabric and stabiliser combination you are using, results may differ. View more
First…. The winner of our great Halloween/Row House runner kit is: Lynn D in NC! Congrats! We will be emailing you to get your snail mail address so we can send it out to...
It's voting time for this week's Fall's Glory quilt contest. Grab yourself a cup of coffee and a pencil to make note of your faves. You can vote for THREE favourites this weekend.
Made with scraps!
3 Hour Workshop Project I've been working on a project I'm submitting to the Wisconsin Quilt Expo next fall (2015) for one of their "Hand...
What are you going to do with that crayon? Ellie cat has been helping me finish up a second project for my 3 Hour Class/Workshop. (I like to give my students at least 2 choices of kits in my classes.) This time I'll show you how I draw saplings in the background AND how I remove the ones I don't like. The start, choosing fabrics and cutting out tree trunks I don't want as many tree trunks in this project as I had in the last. Why? Because I want some room on the bottom to draw in some saplings. I start this project the same as last week's blog post. I'm using another variegated print for my background and I messy cut some random shrubby shapes. Light green foliage for the top of the landscape Messy cutting is the trickiest thing for most quilters - at least in my experience. Below are some messy cut shapes to help you see how to cut them. They need to be deeply cut, perhaps you can think about them as elongated puzzle pieces, but they should not have evenly spaced knobs and holes. Some can have straight edges, these get placed by tree trunks or at the edge of your landscape. Always look to see if you can use the wrong side of your fabrics. Sometimes this side is better than the right side! Messy Cuts Shading with black fabric marker Once I had my basic design in place I got out my black marker and made long sweeping streaks up both of the brown tree trunks. The brown trunk on the right is the WRONG side of the fabric of the trunk on the left. Both got streaks. If you look at the 2nd picture of this blog, you can see the difference between the untouched tree trunks and the "touched". Lol. OH, in case you want more info on shading, check out my blog from 2 weeks ago. It is labeled with Landscape Tips in you want to search by label. Adding white highlighting streaks The second thing I did to these trunks is to use a white highlighting marker (found in the scrap booking section of your favorite craft/hobby store) to add streaks and texture to the tree trunks. I kept the streaks mostly halfway and on the right side of the tree trunks. If a streak to too bright, just go over it with a dark brown or black marker to blend it in a bit. Do leave some of the 'streakiness' though - it looks more like bark. Shading birch tree trunks, the one on the far left is done. To give the birch tree trunks dimension, I used a silver metallic Sharpie marker. I used the marker in a horizontal motion, going back and forth from the edge in a random width up the tree trunk. When you shade and highlight things in your landscape, you need to decide where the sun is shinning. For some reason it is easier for me to highlight and shade the left side of tree trunks, so my sun is shining down from the right. This has to be consistent throughout your landscape. Drawing on distant saplings with a crayon By this point in my lanscape, I have glued down all my tree trunks and my 'shrubbery' and small leafy prints. I start by using a simple crayon and drawing some saplings in the open areas. I use a 'shaky' hand motion to try to capture the twists and knobs of real shrubby branches. In this project, I started drawing with a deep green crayon to blend with the background tones. Oops! I don't like this one! I just drew a branch the SAME branch in the same area of my trees. YUCK. Sooooo, time to get out my clear 'glass' packing tape! (This is the really sticky kind of tape used in sealing up boxes for shipping. It is REALLY sticky stuff.) Lift off the offending branch The wrong branch is virtually gone! Closeup of some of the hand drawn saplings. Once I'm happy with my drawn out saplings, I LIGHTLY go on the left side (remember where your sun is shinning in) and underneath my drawings with an extra fine point black Sharpie. This gives the drawn saplings a bit of dimension and presence. Press your quilt with a medium/hot iron to 'set' the color from the crayon into the fabric and make it permanent. Adding the bright leaves The last thing to get added once everything else is done is the larger leaf foliage. Fussy cut around the edges of the leaves, glue them on and viola, you are done designing. At this point you need to stitch down your appliques - especially the tree trunks. Use monofilament thread and stitch maybe 1/8 inch or 3-4 threads in from all the sides. These types of raw edge landscapes fray like mad. If you stitch right along side of the very edge, those threads will fray off and then your appliques won't get stitched down and you'll have to go over them again. This is a pain and can lead to an untidy quilt back when you quilt the thing. Um... I hate to say this, but I don't always stitch down the all the foliage. I just catch the edges as part of the quilting process. You MUST stitch down the tree trunks though! Once everything is stitched, press with steam and square up the quilt top, making sure your corners are at perfect right angles and that your sides are the same. Add borders if desired. Baste, bind and quilt. (I usually just stipple the background in a variegated thread.) All Done! Oh, I decided that the distant green saplings weren't enough to fill in that space so I just drew in some more using a brown crayon. When you quilt, just outline stitch around your saplings to make them pop out a bit. (Or don't in case you want them to be more subtle.) Well, that is it for my 3 Hour Workshop projects. Now I have to make 2 samples for my Watercolor Landscapes Made Easy Class and 2 more for my Forest Scenes Workshop AND I have a book coming out in December so I should make some strip pieced and strip fused class samples. YIKES! Comments and questions are welcome. OH, if anyone knows much about one of those accuquilt cutters and cutting a LOT of same size squares, would you give me a holler? I'm thinking about buying one... Thanks!
