This quilt: NEBULA

This quilt is now a pattern for purchase from  2SewTextiles.

Here is where to buy it: 2Sew Textlies Etsy shop

2Sew Textiles on Craftsy

Here is how it was in the making: starting with the centre diamonds: Actually, This was a practise piece, and I dispensed with those red bobbles in the end, didn’t like them!

Over/under almost celtic applique diamond design for Nebula

Nebula diamond detail

Nebula diamond stitching

Centre panel completed, ready for addition of borders

Accurate 1/4″ seams are essential for well fitting pieced borders

Piecing layout for sections of the border

Ascertaining layout of each element or unit

Units being laid out to determine the best method of piecing

On the wall, getting a feel for assembling the units

Gradually coming together

Pinning the quilt layers

The quilt pinned and ready to begin the quilting process

Quilting – my cat always found the newest quilt to lie on….

Detail showing the quilting

Attaching a hanging sleeve

Pin with some slack to create space for the dowel

Slip stitching the hanging sleeve (rod pocket)

Rod in the sleeve.

November 24, 2015November 24, 2015 by Sue Duffy Designs Categories: applique, Patchwork, Piecing, QuiltingTags: applique, applique quilts, bed quilt, composition, diamond quilt, Nebula, patchwork, pieced quilts, quilt, quilt patterns, quilting, red white and black, star quilts Leave a comment

NEBULA again!!

This quilt is now a downloadable PDF pattern available from 2Sew Textiles website,   or our  Etsy shop, or on Craftsy.

Here are some more colour variations which might help with your own colour choices. Alternatively, download the free colouring in pattern from Craftsy to trial colourways.

The slide show below shows some images of the colouring-in process – colour one quarter of the design and then use a pair of hinged mirrors to see the end result!

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You might also like the colours illustrated on this blog here: nebula revisited

 

 

November 23, 2015November 24, 2015 by Sue Duffy Designs Categories: applique, Patchwork, Piecing, Quilting, quiltsTags: applique, bed quilt, Nebula quilt, patchwork, piecing, quilting 3 Comments

Threads of Survival

 “Threads of Survival” is a tetratych in fabric, made as part of the Reddy Arts Textile Group’s exhibition “Nature’s Threads”held at Pine Rivers Art Gallery, Strathpine, Queensland, in April and May 2015. This is the culmination of all the work and progress photos shown in previous posts of the construction of the tree. It was also shown at Aspire Gallery, Paddington, Qld in September 2015

I have used mainly cotton, and utilised raw edge applique, dye, thread sketching and quilting.

Threads of Survival 190cm H x 140cm W

Adult Whistling Kite

Juvenile Whistling Kite 1

Juvenile Whistling Kite 2

I wrote this poem to accompany the work:

“THREADS OF SURVIVAL”

Tangled threads. Roots, twined together.

These life-giving fibres, stitched to the cliff…

Holding, but barely.

How long?

Dying limbs reaching. Sticks, interwoven.

This nest, of wood-woven threads…

Holding, but barely.

How long?

Ribbons of rain; and leaves, sunlight-threaded.

This tree surviving, is fledglings’ safe haven…

Holding, but barely.

How long?

November 22, 2015 by Sue Duffy Designs Categories: Art, Art Quilts, Home decor, Quilting, Textile art, thread sketchingTags: applique, Art Quilts, birds, pictorial work, quilting, Reddy Arts Textile Group, textile art, wall hanging, wall quilt 1 Comment

Nebula Revisited

The pattern is out!

Playing around on the computer in my quilt design software and thought I would experiment a bit with the colour choices…

Autumn Nebula: in time for the northern hemisphere fall – or maybe that’s nearly over! So just in case, here is a promise of the snowy winter wonderland to come!!

ICE NEBULA

For some more colour choices see my post Nebula again

November 1, 2015November 23, 2015 by Sue Duffy Designs Categories: applique, Home decor, My Quilts, Patchwork, Piecing, Quilting, quiltsTags: applique, Autumn patchwork, botanical dyeing, composition, design, patchwork, quilting, Quilts, WInter patchwork 1 Comment