The Colin Quilt
Georg
portrait quilt of Colin who died in early January after many health
problems.
Here's the link to the picture of the finished quilt:
http://mtgrammar.powerblogs.com/files/ColinQuilt.jpg
http://mtgrammar.powerblogs.com/files/SassywColinQuilt.jpg
(for size idea, plus Sassy)
What I ended up doing for the eyes was needlepainting them. I drew the
outline on water-soluble stabilizer, hooped it tightly with two layers,
dropped the feed dogs and went at it. I used about 4 or 5 different
threads including a teal metallic at the last. If I were to do it again,
I'd draw it a touch over the size needed, as you can see a band of the
green I used behind and around the edges.
I may play with the thread painting a bit more and try another cat
portrait entirely out of thread in this way, just to get the hair
textures and shading just so.
I think it came out very nicely.
-georg
ha...@dcs.qmul.ac.uk
That is brilliant! Looks very lifelike. Wow!
Hanne in London
KJ
University online classes have produced some wonderful portraits.
I've heard she's a wonderful teacher. You picture is amazing and I'm sure
you'll treasure the memories you've captured in fabric.
Congratulations.
KJ
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Jean B.
Oh! I LOVE it!
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Debi Matlack
Debi
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creation. Good for you. Polly
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Georg
> Did you take the class online or with Marilyn in person? Her Quilt
> University online classes have produced some wonderful portraits.
> I've heard she's a wonderful teacher. You picture is amazing and I'm sure
> you'll treasure the memories you've captured in fabric.
> Congratulations.
> KJ
I took in person with her in the new LQS. It was really great to take it
in person, because I got to watch other people also make their portraits
and the choices they made. One other person was working on their golden
retriever, and that came out really well too. She had a large collection
of "hair" fabrics, which obviously, I did not.
Thanks!
-georg
Louise
picture - I like that.
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Louise in Iowa
nieland4 at mchsi dot com
http://community.webshots.com/user/louiseiniowa
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Maureen Wozniak
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Wonderful job!!!!
Maureen
elspeth
Thanks for the inspiration AND I love the portrait of Colin.
Elizabeth in Spring, Texas
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Neeji
of (people) portraits. It takes me forever to get up my nerve to get
started, but is a blast once I do.
Debra
Debra in VA
See my quilts at
http://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere
Nancy in NS
<theg...@stny.rr.com> wrote:
>I took a portrait class with Marilyn Belford, and decided to do a
>portrait quilt of Colin who died in early January after many health
>problems.
There are *so many* talented people in this group -- this is
just amazing!
Sandy Foster
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My first reaction on seeing this was "Oh, how wonderful!" "Nicely"
doesn't do it justice, georg -- it's magnificent!
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AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education
Boca Jan
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Florida - Land of the Hurricanes
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the eyes. Very nice, thanks so much for sharing.
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Champlain, NY
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Pat in Virginia
Very impressive. I think I understand
the process, but I am a tad confused
about: > the
>> green I used behind
Did you use a piece of green along with
the two layers of w/s stabilizer? OR,
did you piece the green into the design,
then apply the 'eyes' onto that?
PAT, happy dancing to the album "Cats"
Georg
> Georg:
> Very impressive. I think I understand the process, but I am a tad
> confused about: > the
>>> green I used behind
>
> Did you use a piece of green along with the two layers of w/s
> stabilizer? OR, did you piece the green into the design, then apply the
> 'eyes' onto that?
The solid green was used to piece into the rest of the quilt top, so
that was solid fabric, pressed, and set aside.
The needlepainting was done strictly on 2 layers of water soluble
stabilizer which was hooped initially. Then I laid that onto the
finished top and used a marker to delineate the shape of the eyes.
Putting just the hooped stabilizer into the sewing machine (one eye at a
time and feed dogs down), I used about 5 different thread colors to
shape, file, and add shading, with a teal colored bobbin thread. I did a
teal random base of thread, then sky blue on the outside edge, dark
green on the inside edge, yellow blending between the two, and some teal
metallic on top. This was then washed to remove much of the stabilizer,
which left me with patches of thick thread. Once dry, I appliqued them
over the green material, using another deep green thread.
The other interesting oddment is that this originally is not a picture
of Colin. My sweetie had wiped out most of the stored pictures of Colin
off his hard drive. So I went cruising for pictures of cats that looked
like him, and I found this photo:
http://pics.livejournal.com/great_eye/pic/0004hfkx/g9
I wrote the photographer for permission and shared with her pictures of
Colin that I did have, and we agreed they could have been twins- except
Colin has that endearing half moustache and her Kelvin does not. She
also loved how the quilt came out. That was part of why the quilt came
out so well- it's easy when an artist is taking the initial picture.
Anyone who wishes to try the same- I recommend taking so many pictures
of your QIs that they become inured to it.
Thank you everyone for the compliments!!
-georg
nana2b
Georg
> What a lovely tribute to Colin. You did a great job. Linda inTx
>
>
Thank you. :)
-georg