My Dream House
I still feel like I am trying to crawl out of a hole, but I am slowly
getting back to quilting more. I am only a month late with this quilt.
I have done this for the FFFC group. Last month's challenge was to
depict your home or dream home, or other architecture, along with
showing perspective in a quilt. The idea is to have a piece done in a
week. I really only worked on this less than a week, but it took a long
time to get in the frame of mind needed to actually do it.
I then cut out pieces for the house and roof, using the pattern I made.
I decided to give it the look of an English cottage, and it also ended
up a single story house instead of 2 stories as in the photo. The
windows were made using slivers of "roof" fabric with a shimery organza
for the glass. I used colored pencils for the shading of the shingles,
and colored behind the windows with green and blue to give the feel of
the sky or bushes reflecting on the "glass".
Here is the basic house. I placed the pencil drawing of the house under backing paper from Wonder Under, then fused the pieces to the backing paper for the general shape of the house. I could then peel it off the backing paper as a unit for fusing onto the batting.
Here is the house fused over the sky on the batting. I then began putting in bushes, trees, and a few flowers. I was trying to give the feel of standing at the end of the long walk, looking toward the house, with flowers blocking the view of the walk in some places. I cut flowers from fabrics that had flowers printed on them, and shapes from other fabrics. On the right is my favorite kind of scissors for cutting the tiny, fussy pieces. They are Fiskars brand, with straight handles and a spring, and are very sharp right up to the point. No cramped hands, or dents in fingers from regular scissors.
The next photo shows the skeletons of the trees after I added more branches, thread painting with variegated thread. I also quilted the siding and roof detail with clear thread. You can also see the flowers that were not fused, yet, next to the quilt, along with some of the "swiss cheesed" fabrics I cut flowers out of.
Here is a detail shot, showing the front of the house. I would love to live in a cute looking house, totally surrounded by flower beds. I do have a lot of flower beds, now, but in my dreams, they are even better, with no weeds.
Now that we had our first killing frost last night, I guess it will be back to gardening with fabric until spring comes again.
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