Wednesday, January 3, 2018

A new piece...........

 I have created my first colorwash piece of 2018.  Why did I make it rectangular?  When I was getting ready to finish the Old Italian block small quilt I decided I was going to piece the batting.  While going through the boxes of batting pieces I found one that was the kind of batting I like for my wallhangings (Warm and Natural) and it was a small rectangle.  I decided to do a colorwash that would fit on it.  This piece is 22" x 31.5".  Warm and Natural has scrim (polypropolene sheet) that the cotton is punched through and it doesn't stretch so it hangs nice and flat against a wall.  For larger quilts I prefer Hobbs 80/20 which is softer and a little puffier.  It is needle punched and treated with a soft resin to provide stability to the fibers.

13 comments:

PaisleyBird said...

A gorgeous start to the New Year!

Roxanne said...

That is the first time I’ve heard of leftover batting inspiring a quilt! Love it!

Linda Swanekamp said...

Too funny, the batting inspiring a quilt. I love the clear, saturated colors. It glows so well.

Debbie said...

Beautiful! You inspire me!

Linda said...

Beautiful! I love the glowing centre.

Lesley Gilbert said...

Lovely colorwash and thanks for explaining about the batting. I've only made a few small quilts and used basic wadding/batting which is cheaper here. I googled to see what you meant about the scrim; makes more sense now :)

Connie Kresin Campbell said...

Beautiful Wanda! Somewhere I have a bundles of colorwash squares I bought from you a couple years ago.....I need to get brave and make one!

Julie Bagamary said...

Beautiful!

Anonymous said...

The individual fabrics are so beautiful - and combined so much more!

ceci

JJM said...

No matter what the shape is ~ you design a gorgeous color wash.

JJM

Needled Mom said...

You always do such an amazing job on these. It was interesting to read why you select the batting for the wallhangings.

Radka said...

I love it!
xx

Julie H said...

Just beautiful!