In June, SAQA had a call for submission to the 2024 Philadelphia Museum of Art Contemporary Craft Show. I submitted two pieces and one of them got juried in. The one that was selected is called 'My Way'. You can read about it in detail in this blog here. This is my first submission to the museum show. I'm excited to see how it goes.
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I've been working on a new quilt, named 'Off Kilter' and now it is done. Here are some pictures of the quilt.
Here's a detail picture.
Oh, how I struggled with this one. The beige background fabric is a painter drop cloth. I picked it because of the color and the texture. It goes so well with the denim fabric. Although the drop cloth is 100% cotton, it is very coarse and rough. When I sewed on it the sewing lines don't appear smooth unlike those on Kona or other 100 cotton quilting fabric. I decided to add some hand quilting in there too. That's because when I sewed with a regular blue thread, it didn't show well at all. I hand quilted it in blue pearl cotton thread and it shows much better just the way I like it.
The next project is the alphabet quilt as I mentioned in this post. I want to make a wall hanging quilt. I pulled out some fabric and will start today.
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.
Margo
In addition to the linky parties on the sidebar, I also link up to:
To Do Tuesday hosted by Carol at Quilt Schmilt
Put Your Foot Down at For the Love of Geese (Thursday)
Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty
Peacock Party at Wendy’s Quilts and More (Friday)
Congrats on having your quilt accepted into the museum craft show! Both of your quilts here are stunning! Such great use of drop cloth and denim fabrics, both kind of tough to use in curved piecing!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on being juried into the show! Your piecing and quilting in both quilts are amazing.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on My Way! I love your use of drop cloth in Off Kilter - wow, so creative! Your quilting is just stunning Margo. Hope your summer is going well.
ReplyDeleteHow cool to know your quilt is hanging in a museum! Congratulations. Love your new quilt. I bet that drop cloth was hard to work with but sure worth it for the result. Thanks for sharing on my weekly show and tell, Wednesday Wait Loss.
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I'm so glad you opted to go with some hand quilting with pearl cotton. It adds that extra spark to your quilt.
ReplyDeleteYeah for the submissions, both quilts are beautiful! I love the blue stitches on Off Kilter, and this thin curve on the top. Lovely dense quilting too.
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful quilting! Wow!
ReplyDeleteHi Margo, both of your quilts are gorgeous! I really like the pop of hand stitching on your 'Off Kilter' quilt. Thanks for linking up to Free Motion Mavericks.
ReplyDeleteSuper Huge CONGRATS!!! its a wonderful piece!!!
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