Sewing and Beyond with Mary Anne Ciccotelli

Falls Surprises (Completed in the Spring)

I completed Fall Surpries last week. Here the wallhanging is drying after being blocked.

The textile medium really does work – see the spot that I missed and the color penciles washed out when I was washing the quilt?

Here is a picture of the completed quilt.

Little closer view – the leaves really do show up much better the closer you get.

Origianlly the “Surprise” was going to be when you turned the quilt over and saw the leaves on the back – but this quilt had its own surprise in mind.

When I quilted the border I just went around the leaves that were in the batik.

I really like the red leaf especially with the stuff that I couched on the outer edge.

Here is the back of the quilt.

Close-up.

The back leaves didn’t turn out quite like I had planned because the contrast between the thread and the backing fabric was not there. I therefore had to color the leaves in with crayons.

Kind of a fun piece though. It will be fun to have hanging in my studio during the Fall.

I had to add more leaves to the label because I had put a completition date of Nov. 2008 – well I didn’t quite make it. So, I put some more leaves on to cover up the inaccurate information and added the correct date on one of the new leaves.

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2 Responses to “Falls Surprises (Completed in the Spring)”

1. Randy and Susan Landon says:

   May 19, 2009 at 12:28 am

   You and ‘George’ are doing great things

2. Debbie says:

   May 16, 2009 at 11:44 pm

   I just love those colors, Mary Anne. And, your machine quilting is fantastic, as usual.