What if I made fabric from these.
Silks brought by a friend from China.
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A silk dress from a charity shop in Edinburgh, a wonderful textured fabric of many colours from a fabric shop in Switzerland and a dark transparent chiffon.
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And what if I made fabric by laying out pieces with raw edges.
I cut a five and a half inch square of medium weight interfacing and applied the fabrics to it.
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And did some free machine sewing to stitch them together then trimmed the square to five inches. It didn't look very good at this stage and I nearly gave up.
10 comments:
what a great idea and a beautiful block! I love the subtle, rich shimmer of the non-cotton fabrics.
Linda
Wow, that is going to be stunning!
I love this whole concept! I've been playing around with mixing a variety of fabrics too. The pinwheel block is so dramatic done this way. Excellent!
Wow! The shine adds a whole new dimension!
Lovely! It's like crazy quilting meets patchwork - cool!
Love where your PLAY took you! that's a great challenge too!
Fabulous!!! And very elegant. You go girl!
Pretty! Slippery and tricky too...well done you!
Beautiful! I love the shine of the fabrics!
Wow ... you are brave! Love the raw edges & fancy stitches and the shine ...
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