Wednesday 11 May 2011

I'm never sewing in a straight line again!

I've been working on projects from Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's It's Sew Easy class again. I loved making these projects so much that my title is what I said to my other half as I was sewing away with a big smile on my face. Free-motion sewing is so much fun!

These are quilted ATCs which included birds from Digital Collage Sheets, which I transferred onto the fabric by printing them onto an inkjet transparency and using a gel medium. It's such a great technique. I stamped on my favourite feather stamp and them painted on the branches and blossoms before going crazy with the quilting!


I was so pleased with how the design how turned out that I didn't want to cover it up with text and so I printed my text onto vellum and then sewed each word on and finished the blossoms with some beads.
I've got a Dylon fabric pen which is almost the same colour as the sky blue and so I've written the bible verses where the text comes from onto each ATC, but it's quite subtle in the background.


Here's another play with free-motion sewing on a scrapbook page. - Love this!



10 comments:

  1. your ATCs are great - I love the text over the image. And glad you're enjoying free-motion stitching - it's good fun as long as you remember to breathe while you're doing it!! For a long time I held my breath while quilting ;-)

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  2. Wow! Your projects are *gorgeous*!! Love it all!

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  3. Fabulous projects, love the sewn ATC's...I need to get a sewing machine so I can make LO's like that :)
    Jenny x

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  4. Go for it Jenny! Sewing machines are ace. Mine was my 18th birthday present - quite a while ago now!!

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  5. I love the ATC's. Sewing on pages is one of my favorite techniques.

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  6. Gorgeous projects there Emy.
    C
    xx

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  7. ooo I'm loving these alot - fantastic. :)

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  8. These are so beautiful and inventive and I love those daisies on the LO as well.

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  9. WOW, love these, the colours are so pretty, and the choice of verses is wonderful.

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  10. I'm just working through Julie's class now and your projects are so inspiring. Gorgeous work!

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