Once upon
a time, in a small kingdom far away, a self-professed art quilt blogger wrote
about a terrific new book she had purchased, titled “Appliqué Art,” by Stewart
Merrett. This book was a visual
feast, with beautiful projects created from sumptuous velvets, silks, and moiré
fabrics. The little blogger
promised herself that she would one day tackle one of these enticing projects,
and, finally, after a LONG, LONG time, she did.
She
gathered together a collection of decorator fabrics . . .
and,
using instructions from the beautiful book, she designed a letter “E” to place
behind the lovely floral pattern.
She used a satin stitch and 40-weight Sulky rayon thread to appliqué the
pieces to the velvet background. The piece was then outline-quilted with
30-weight rayon . . .
"Love Letters: Amaryllis" ©2011 Diane Evans
and
brought it to her local A.C. Moore shop to have them place it in a gilded
frame.
Her
husband (a prince of a man) was so pleased with the little wall quilt that he hung it in a place of
honor in the castle, which pleased the blogger very much, since it had taken
her SO LONG to finish the piece that she was certain it would languish in her
pile of QuIPs (“Quilts In Progress”).
The moral
of this tale? You can finish
anything you set out to do if you have enough determination and a 65%-off
coupon from your local frame shop.
Diane
12 comments:
It's lovely; I'm so glad you finished it and it was hung in a wonderful place!
:-) Funny what motivates us. This piece is beautiful. You should be pleased!!! I love Amaryllis and you did it justice!
Clever story line to go with your lovely quilt.
The power of a coupon, and a little inspiration. Just beautiful, my dear!
The quilt is lovely and you chose the perfect frame!
What a wonderful tale to go along with such a beautiful piece.
Better hang onto that prince :-)
Today at our ARTAA meeting, I was lucky enough to see Diane and "Amaryllis". The pictures are great, but with the lush fabrics, it's really yummy up close.
This is the best blog entry I've read in a long time. What fun. And what a beautiful love letter.
Beautiful quilt, beautiful story!
Such a lovely piece of work Diane and what a fun post. I hope you and the prince live happily ever after.
I like the way you have written your story and used the art work to illustrate it. Great post!
best from Tunisia,
nadia
It's beautiful, so sorry I missed it. Lovely!
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