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Reaching for words

26 June 2021

I’m going to add posts about some of my older quilts and a few crafty tutorials from the past on this website. Instead of simply copying posts from my old blog, I’ll update them so they may reach a new audience.

I used to hand-dye fabric and embellish it with stamping and other methods of pattern-making. This small quilt (27cm x 35cm), Reaching for words, is intensively hand stitched.

Part of the stitching fun was choosing the threads. I particularly like variegated threads for work like this because they result in subtle colour variations and don’t give that ‘flat’ look a single colour can.

Here is a detail shot of a portion of the quilt so you can see what I mean.

This was a fun quilt to design and make. I do enjoy creating small quilts because they are easy to handle and I can do more work on them than I would a large quilt. Hand stitching rules in my world!

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Comments

  1. Pauline Mitchell says

    26 June 2021 at 7:20 pm

    Beautiful work!

    • Salley says

      26 June 2021 at 10:55 pm

      Love all that stitching – like little rice grains!great texture Erica. Tactile.

      • Erica says

        28 June 2021 at 3:43 pm

        Thanks Salley. It takes ages but it’s my favourite filler.

    • Erica says

      28 June 2021 at 3:44 pm

      Thanks Pauline. Lovely of you to leave a comment.

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