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Sun, Jul 30, 06 at 23:15
| I made this for DH, years ago, and now we have it on our living room wall. Traced the pictures from a coloring book. I quilted each square as I went along, and my only regret about this quilt is that I used some special Japanese "dyeing crayons" for the colors, so they didn't stand up as well as textile paints. After this quilt, I made two duplicates of it, using textile paints, one for my mother and one for my aunt, but I quilted those by machine to save time.
The birds are stuffed a bit extra, and I quilted all around the pictures, the lines being about 1/4" apart. I had plenty of time that summer, being on a visit to my aunt and mother, because we sat around and talked and watched TV almost all the time. |
Image link: Quilt of American birds (42 k)
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| Fabulous quilts. It must look stunning on the wall. I agree the paints hold up much better than the crayons. I have also used dyes instead of paints and they held up very well also. beverly |
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- Posted by glassquilt (My Page) on Mon, Jul 31, 06 at 7:03
| Beautiful birds. I'd have trouble drawing one or two and you did a whole flock three times. |
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| What beautiful birds. I am amazed at how life like they look. If I tried that it would look like some little kid tried their hand at coloring. Lucy |
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- Posted by jennifer_in_va (My Page) on Mon, Jul 31, 06 at 8:05
| You are definitely an artist!! I could never and would never attempt anything like that!! It's beautiful! |
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| A spectacular quilt! You are certainly a talented artist as well as quilter. Thanks for sharing! |
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- Posted by biwako_of_abi (My Page) on Mon, Jul 31, 06 at 10:49
| Thanks for the nice words, everyone. They are the more welcome because I have been looking through the pictures in the Gallery and seeing what great quilt makers there are on this forum. Your quilts are inspiring, and I am looking forward to viewing all the ones in the Gallery, bit by bit. What a treat! The coloring book really deserves the praise for artistry. I only wish I could draw birds well. Cats and dogs are more my thing (doing leather tooling). |
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- Posted by laurainsdca (My Page) on Mon, Jul 31, 06 at 10:50
| Holy Cow! (Or maybe I should say "Big Bird!") You traces/drew all those? WOW. Gorgeous. I looked at the picture before reading yor post and just assumed they were panels. Lovely. |
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- Posted by teresa_nc7 (My Page) on Tue, Aug 1, 06 at 7:13
| Your quilts are just beautiful! I'm just awestruck. Thanks for sharing. Teresa |
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- Posted by biwako_of_abi (My Page) on Sat, Aug 5, 06 at 1:30
| Laura in SD: Yes, to be specific, I traced them and transferred them using regular carbon paper. Then I outlined them with permanent market. |
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