has just posted her finished hand-quilted pillow!
I featured the almost-done project in my I Love Green post last Friday. Take a look at her finished work of art:
Gorgeous, right? And I must say her photograph really enhances the "puffiness" and needlework. This pillow caught my eye because of all the green in it, but check out the other pillow she made:
Obviously Keren has some skills, not only with the technical aspects of such a project, but she has an "eye" for matching up colors and prints. Could I do something like this?????? I don't know, but I'm dying to try!!!!
Keren and I started emailing back and forth, and a plan formulated! (insert evil laugh!) She was interested in trying reverse applique (which is pretty much the only kind of applique I do) while I was interested in regular applique and quilting in general. So now we are working on a project together!!!! (insert squeal of delight!)
Keren, a huge fan of retro styles (1950s) sent me some very cool retro patterns to use as inspiration for a common theme and I was very taken with this one:
This is the inspiration for our theme: squares/rectangles with rounded corners with circles. Ya dig? |
We agreed on certain parameters:
Project: Pillow cover, approx 50x50 cm (20 x 20 inches)
Design: squares/rectangles with rounded corners, optional circle in the center.
Color scheme: whatever you like!
Techniques to be used: Quilting, Applique, Reverse Applique (hand stitched and/or machine stitched)
Timeline: The month of September
Voting: Everyone can vote via poll linky-dealio (high tech term!)
Prizes?: Winner(s) receive bragging rights and a super-neato badge of honor!
Voting: Everyone can vote via poll linky-dealio (high tech term!)
Prizes?: Winner(s) receive bragging rights and a super-neato badge of honor!
So here we are in the Retro Pillow Challenge! (insert applauding audience!)
Click here for more info |
Would you like to join in? Please! We'd love to have you! Comment on this post or email us and let us know. We've made a wonderful hostess page with contact information here. Keren has created some great tutorials to help us all with quilting (by hand and machine) and applique and patchwork:
How she made her latest green/blue pillow with the applique squares.
And I'm a slacker and have only done this tute:
Reverse Applique: The Ricochet Method
Update: We've created a Retro Pillow Challenge Headquarters here.
And I'm a slacker and have only done this tute:
Reverse Applique: The Ricochet Method
Update: We've created a Retro Pillow Challenge Headquarters here.
Please join us!
And Keren, of course! |
I don't twitter myself, yet, so I'm definitely slacking in that dept. I have a "tweet this" gadget on my sidebar and that's as far as I've gone. Thanks, Anon., for the good advice.
ReplyDeleteok, now I twitter! or tweet? not sure yet how this works, but I have a "follow" button on my sidebar....
ReplyDeleteAlso would like to officially annoounce my participation in the retro pillow challenge. I have ZERO quilting experience so this should be a great learning experience!
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Got to know about this challenge through Riochet's mail
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