Choo-choo

Today I have my very own "TA-DA" moment. Here is my art quilt I've been working on and I LOVE it! I have really enjoyed taking part in Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's class "It's Sew Easy" and I used the techniques from one of her projects to create this art quilt. I painted the train onto some calico with acrylics and then went crazy with free-motion stitching over the top.

I've been planning to make a pieced train quilt for my little boy's room for a while, in fact I drew out a pattern last summer. At the rate I was going though he was going to be 18 before it actually made it up on his wall! I love this technique of combining sewing and painting as it means I have achieved a finished piece in only a couple of weeks instead of a couple of years.

Can you see the words in the steam?

I switched thread to create the swirly white clouds.