Boy.... have I been delinquent. You saw my last post was from something that happened in May and I just posted about in on July 19th! So I will be in catch up mode for the next week or so. :-)
Here is the finished piece of Robert and me, in 'Can you see me?'. I thought I had blogged about making it here, but it appears I never did!!! I started the piece as part of a Craftsy class by Lola Jenkins, called Thread Art, using a picture of my son taken while on a family vacation last summer. I made the piece at the end of 2012 and still can't believe I didn't blog about it, as I love my reflection in his eye glasses. (Facebook friends have seen it, so sorry if you are seeing this twice.)
You know how you have an idea of how to do something, but when it works out, you are like WOW, I like that! :-). This is a whole cloth quilt, with one exception. The eye glasses are appliqued on top of his face. They were made by enlarging the original picture and printing just the glasses on fabric, then appliqueing them down. His profile, the hair, mustache and beard are all done via thread painting on the top only. I then colored everything else in using Inktense pencils. I had the top completed and quilted everything except his face back in the December/January time frame, because I couldn't get the courage to do so. I was afraid of messing him up.. I finally got the inspiration and courage to quilt the face, then decided to make it 'not square'. I looked at quite a few other portrait quilts online and I must say, studying them, really helped!
Anyway, here are some pics, I thought I would share..
I really love the quilting in the nose and chin area.
The face is quilted using YLI Silk thread that I had brought a few years ago when a local shop was closing. So happy I had it on hand, as it worked perfectly for such dense quilting. Lucky for me I have another 30 or so spools of it in various muted pastel colors!
I think I will do more portraits to get more practice on how to truly represent the faces natural contour. :-)
Here is the finished piece of Robert and me, in 'Can you see me?'. I thought I had blogged about making it here, but it appears I never did!!! I started the piece as part of a Craftsy class by Lola Jenkins, called Thread Art, using a picture of my son taken while on a family vacation last summer. I made the piece at the end of 2012 and still can't believe I didn't blog about it, as I love my reflection in his eye glasses. (Facebook friends have seen it, so sorry if you are seeing this twice.)
You know how you have an idea of how to do something, but when it works out, you are like WOW, I like that! :-). This is a whole cloth quilt, with one exception. The eye glasses are appliqued on top of his face. They were made by enlarging the original picture and printing just the glasses on fabric, then appliqueing them down. His profile, the hair, mustache and beard are all done via thread painting on the top only. I then colored everything else in using Inktense pencils. I had the top completed and quilted everything except his face back in the December/January time frame, because I couldn't get the courage to do so. I was afraid of messing him up.. I finally got the inspiration and courage to quilt the face, then decided to make it 'not square'. I looked at quite a few other portrait quilts online and I must say, studying them, really helped!
Anyway, here are some pics, I thought I would share..
The face is quilted using YLI Silk thread that I had brought a few years ago when a local shop was closing. So happy I had it on hand, as it worked perfectly for such dense quilting. Lucky for me I have another 30 or so spools of it in various muted pastel colors!
I think I will do more portraits to get more practice on how to truly represent the faces natural contour. :-)
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