Showing posts with label All in the Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label All in the Family. Show all posts

Monday, March 8, 2021

Landscape quilt finished

Wallhanging finished and hung up

I have finished all the sewing on my second landscape quilt wall-hanging. I can see lots of things that need improving, such as using fusible web when applying large pieces of fabric. The bird house and the window would have been better if I had done that, less rippling would have occurred. But I figure it is all a learning curve and I am content to leave this one as is. Things that I see could be improved will be incorporated into my next and subsequent efforts. I already have another one in mind. It is interesting that the part I found the hardest, the leaves, has turned out to be my favourite aspect of this. Perhaps it is the colour, but I just love the leaf section.
The project is still mounted on the styrofoam board that I used to work on it. This also serves for blocking my knits. Such a useful piece of styrofoam. I will hang this wall hanging on a wall, once I figure out where to put it. It is called "All in the Family" because that is what the original artist called his painting.

New Landscape Quilt

The other landscape quilt isn't panning out, I just can't get into it so I thought put it away for another day. So I started o...