New photos of completed wall hanging

Jan 21, 2010 10 Replies

I have actually finished something - thank you Kate for the Yahoo group which helps kick me in the right direction!



It is a wall hanging 23.5" x 21.5" with a felted centre based on galaxy M81. I mounted it onto a navy/black hand dyes and then added a piped border and a pieced border before quilting. The outer border quilting was inspired by a design by Mary Covey

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Then I added decorative threads, beading and even some glow in the dark thread in the centre.



This one even needed a name so as I started it the year Arthur C Clarke died it has become "....the space that yawns between the stars...."



Photos are at:

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Lizzy


Wow, Lizzy, that's amazingly gorgeous. And I t hink you chose the perfect name.

Sunny

The more I thought about the above border, the more I realise that the above attribution is incorrect (although I have volume 2 and like and use it). I actually used a style from "Mindful Meandering" by Laura Lee Fritz,

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Lizzy

I love that Lizzy. very inspired. I know it would really nice on my wall! Right colours.lol

Wow, Lizzy! Great work! Roberta in D

Thank you all for the kind comments. It is now hanging in my front room where I can admire it every day - and DH does too. At some point I might move it elsewhere in the house, but for the moment it has a home (nice try though Estelle).

I did faintly consider entering it the UK Festival of Quilts, but it is the wrong size - too big for a miniature and too small for any other category.

Lizzy

Great job. I especially liked the spiral quilting -- an echo of sprial galaxies.

Susan K see my quilts: members.cox.net/kratersge

You still have time to enter it for Quilts UK in Malvern. What size is it? Grosvenor have a different categorisation for miniature; and there is only an upper limit on 'small wallhanging'. You can get the rules from the Grosvenor Publications website:

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. In message , Lizzy Taylor writes

Patti, I know you're British and all that, but are you sure categorisation is a word? =) Polly

"Patti" You still have time to enter it for Quilts UK in Malvern. What size is

Fairly sure, yes! I would have said totally sure until you asked! However, my spell checker did not object. I'll try it again now: categorisation - no, no red line >gPatti, I know you're British and all that, but are you sure

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