Miniature top done! I had a jolly time playing with all the red silks in this piece. Started out by making a fan. It was nice, but it just didn't look right along side the 'made fabric' neutral background.
Then I tried cutting up the fan and making 3" squares for the center. That was fun! But the neutral 'made fabric' took away from the main event...
So I abandoned the 'made neutrals' and went with the remaining solid silk pieces....all except for those corner blocks. I had run out of reds by then, so they are totally random, too.
Now comes the quilting question.... I wish I could FMQ some little Amish feathers in the solid triangles, but I know my limitations. Any volunteers???
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Gorgeous :)
luv it-you made good design decisions and I love the final product!
You are a mini speed stitcher. Love it...
Beautiful!
No help here on the quilting question. Faving the same doubts, queries for mine: what's both appropriate and feasible at such a small scale?
Glad you abandoned the neutrals as a background ... love the choices you made! How about embroidering those feathers?
Margaret, you mind-reader! I was just thinking the same thing after I saw V's blog about Aurifil this morning.
if you still want some feathers machine stitched, I'll do it. send the flimsy to me.
Just beautiful! Love your choices!
This is wonderful! How were the silks to work with? A friend of mine just bought a little bundle to play with and she was going to use a fusible stabilizer before cutting.
love the Silks!!! glorious!!
Jane, these decorator silks were so easy to work on. They were firm and needed no stabilizer.
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