I thought you might find it interesting to see how I design an art quilt.
I use ridged insulation board covered with white flannel fabric as my design wall. This works great because I can stick the fabric on the wall with a pin and later iron it in place. First I put up a piece of cotton as the base, this is to give the fused fabric something to stick to. I use Wonder Under 805 as my fusible web, I take off the paper before I fuse it to the fabric and use Teflon sheets to protect my iron and ironing surface. I want to make sure I’ve got the web on the edges of the motif that I’m cutting, that prevents fraying.
With my design wall I can move items around and/or leave it up for a few days to see if I like it. This was part of my process for this quilt:
The racers # 1
I made a foam stamp of a bicycle racer and stamped it on a piece of painted fabric. The upper part of the quilt I had already completed with painting and markers. The crowd was some commercial fabric that I was excited to be able to finally use. In this case I used a leftover piece of fabric that had been used to clean up after painting for my base.
Bike Racer stamp
Here’s a close up of the bike racer stamp. This was done with the “fun foam”.
I take pictures as I go along. I seems like I see better through the camera lens.
Bike Race Breck # 2
Bike Race # 3
Bike Race # 4
Bike Race Breck
