Hello from Southern Sweden
09-16-2011, 10:36 AM
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Thanks for the welcomes!
I'm thinking of an overall picture quilt (laid out as a garden) done in Grandmother's garden type groups of hexagons ....
(English paper piecing method)
But I'm also thinking of irregular clumps of hexagons in each pattern or couple of patterns .... regular 'paths' of a beige tartan or similar and a plain 'grass' green with irregular clumps to represent garden beds ... but all in hexagons.
fiddled with so far are a lilac polyester blouse fabrc, which needs a dark green in and amongst the patches to be a lilac bush ... (first time I ever had a 'commissioned' garment, a friend of my Mum's took a favourite blouse that was inexplicably fraying at the shoulder seams and copied it in this lilac (self patterned with flower sprigs) polyester satin - I have the offcuts!)
And a 'Scandinavian blue' lightweight cotton curtain fabric ... when we moved to Denmark and rented a flat I was faced with total white-out of all the walls and little furniture, and 'HAD' to add some colour! I bought a couple of 5m lengths of this blue cotton, again a sprigged pattern rather like bluebells, this time in white on the blue background, and hand-stitched without any machine four curtains for the balcony door and run of windows comprising one wall of the lounge ... I was SO SO proud of myself!
I want something resembling oak leaves or beech woods to go with that.
Helen
I'm thinking of an overall picture quilt (laid out as a garden) done in Grandmother's garden type groups of hexagons ....
(English paper piecing method)
But I'm also thinking of irregular clumps of hexagons in each pattern or couple of patterns .... regular 'paths' of a beige tartan or similar and a plain 'grass' green with irregular clumps to represent garden beds ... but all in hexagons.
fiddled with so far are a lilac polyester blouse fabrc, which needs a dark green in and amongst the patches to be a lilac bush ... (first time I ever had a 'commissioned' garment, a friend of my Mum's took a favourite blouse that was inexplicably fraying at the shoulder seams and copied it in this lilac (self patterned with flower sprigs) polyester satin - I have the offcuts!)
And a 'Scandinavian blue' lightweight cotton curtain fabric ... when we moved to Denmark and rented a flat I was faced with total white-out of all the walls and little furniture, and 'HAD' to add some colour! I bought a couple of 5m lengths of this blue cotton, again a sprigged pattern rather like bluebells, this time in white on the blue background, and hand-stitched without any machine four curtains for the balcony door and run of windows comprising one wall of the lounge ... I was SO SO proud of myself!
I want something resembling oak leaves or beech woods to go with that.
Helen
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