Here's a sneaky peek of how I'm using some of it. It's a random patched panel with top and bottom borders which I am hand stitching/quilting each patch with running stitches using cotton perle.
How long is it going to take?
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Seen From Above - City to Sea
Another creation finished in the Seen From Above series I am currently working on.
Every now and then I love to return to pieced block patchwork, in particular log cabin. In these blocks I have incorporated OS maps in the strips. It just happened I had some old maps which have been replaced with newer versions and these maps included London and Mid Sussex to the coast.
The colours were chosen to reflect the landscape depicted in the maps. Red for the city as there were so many red roads on the pieces I had selected as well as the red buses that can be found on the roads. Green for the central block as it covers an area of Mid Sussex that is predominantly countryside. And of course blue for the coastal area and the sea, All the fabrics in the blocks were hand dyed and the green one was a piece I had overprinted with a Thermofax screen a few year ago for another project.
I quilted in the ditch on the blocks as I was worried about tearing the paper with too much stitching and then added some further lines of stitching inbetween the blocks and on the borders.
Every now and then I love to return to pieced block patchwork, in particular log cabin. In these blocks I have incorporated OS maps in the strips. It just happened I had some old maps which have been replaced with newer versions and these maps included London and Mid Sussex to the coast.
The colours were chosen to reflect the landscape depicted in the maps. Red for the city as there were so many red roads on the pieces I had selected as well as the red buses that can be found on the roads. Green for the central block as it covers an area of Mid Sussex that is predominantly countryside. And of course blue for the coastal area and the sea, All the fabrics in the blocks were hand dyed and the green one was a piece I had overprinted with a Thermofax screen a few year ago for another project.
I quilted in the ditch on the blocks as I was worried about tearing the paper with too much stitching and then added some further lines of stitching inbetween the blocks and on the borders.
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