Red Chair Re-do
03-06-2014, 08:01 AM
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Red Chair Re-do
Some time ago, I posted a picture of a chair I recovered and that I had added a small quilted cover to it because I didn’t like the way the chair looked. http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...e-t109187.html Well, I needed the chair in a different room and the reds did not go so well with the new room. I didn’t want to recover the chair so I made a new quilt for it. Even tho the photos make it look reddish, it’s actually a dark brownish maroon.
It’s all FMQ ..no piecing (I was in a hurry and taking a break from another couch project). I had 2 sewing machines in for repair and was using my ‘backup’ machine. I do most of my FMQ on my little Juki mechanical machine and I love it. I did all of this one freehand, except for the crosshatching. I used masking tape to stitch the lines for that.
I love the look of pebbling when it is surrounded by echo quilting (makes me think of pebbles with water swirling around it), but I got bored with making them so I changed in midstream and just started winging the echo quilting. And added a few changes just to finish it off and be done with it.
The arms are separate and done with practice feathers. I am very intimidated by feathers and just decided to work at them. They didn’t look great so I added some filler to confuse the eye into not noticing!
As long as no one looks at the back of these 3 pieces, I will take credit for them...all bets are off if you look at the back! I used up all of my partially filled bobbins and paid no attention to what the back was looking like. Anyway, here it is.....
It’s all FMQ ..no piecing (I was in a hurry and taking a break from another couch project). I had 2 sewing machines in for repair and was using my ‘backup’ machine. I do most of my FMQ on my little Juki mechanical machine and I love it. I did all of this one freehand, except for the crosshatching. I used masking tape to stitch the lines for that.
I love the look of pebbling when it is surrounded by echo quilting (makes me think of pebbles with water swirling around it), but I got bored with making them so I changed in midstream and just started winging the echo quilting. And added a few changes just to finish it off and be done with it.
The arms are separate and done with practice feathers. I am very intimidated by feathers and just decided to work at them. They didn’t look great so I added some filler to confuse the eye into not noticing!
As long as no one looks at the back of these 3 pieces, I will take credit for them...all bets are off if you look at the back! I used up all of my partially filled bobbins and paid no attention to what the back was looking like. Anyway, here it is.....
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