A Fine Line

machine quilting special of Stephanie Pettengell's 3D cube

I got to know Stephanie at our Machine Quilting Retreat final January. It was a corking grouping of girls. We all had a wonderful time, laughed a lot too learned hence much from each other. People from the grouping accept been keeping upward amongst each other e'er since. Stephanie rang a few months agone looking for around threads that would exhibit upward against black. She went for Kimono Silk inward the end. I was thrilled to acquire to run across the completed projects at the Festival of Quilts final week! 

Stephanie too Martha at the Festival of Quilts 2013

Stephanie belongs to a Textile grouping called New Horizons too they were invited to exhibit inward their real ain gallery at this years Festival of Quilts.

Stephanie amongst her cube inward front end of her Profiles quilt

The combination of the fine business too the brilliant gilded color of the silk was hence effective inward this project. The New Horizon grouping members created cubes to give 3D involvement to the gallery for visitors. Stephanie created half-dozen dissimilar circular designs free-motion quilting intricate feathers sitting at the sewing machine.The Kimono Silk threads were simply perfect!

exquisite quilting - 1 human face upward of Stephanie's cube

However, I intend that Stephanie's Profile wall hanging generated the nigh interest! I'll permit Stephanie say y'all the storey inward her ain words:

"As a fellow member of The New Horizons Textile Group, amongst the topic of ‘Now We Are Twenty’ I designed the wallhanging ‘Profiles’ for our gallery at the Festival of Quilts 2013. My pattern was based on the fact that nosotros oftentimes accept to write a ‘profile’ of ourselves when nosotros exhibit our work. Looking farther into the visible profile of a soul I wondered how each of us came to intend of a topic for our adjacent exhibiting run too how our brains developed our ideas. I wanted the finished slice to brand people expect to a greater extent than than once,  as I honey quilts where y'all expect 1 time too and hence expect 1 time again too detect to a greater extent than to see. To create this, equally good equally quilting the discharged visible ‘heads’ I also quilted ‘heads’ inward the background amid the whirling feathers. Hopefully this invites viewers to footstep inward to run across to a greater extent than of the pattern equally the background is textural at offset but the to a greater extent than y'all expect the to a greater extent than special y'all tin see. To laissez passer on this y'all bespeak a fine thread amongst a fine needle, I used dark kimono silk thread amongst a pocket-size needle to stitch on the dark fabric."

This was such a fascinating piece. The stitching was amazing! When I took a closer expect to admire the quilting I started to notice the other heads quilted inward relief. Wow! This quilt drew me inward too got me thinking!

quilting special of Stephanie Pettengell's Profiles

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