Monday, November 30, 2009

Masked Fabric Art Quilt


Hi, Lucy Edson here with my first video tutorial for Shimmerz!

Shimmerz Spritz is perfect for masking on fabric as you can see on this video I made. It added an amazing sheen and color to my masked mini quilt. Take a look at how I started this project:





I added a little more misting to this after I finished the video - the dress form is Chickadee Spritz the shadow masking, Ruby Spritz and then I added a little 4 Leaf Clover on the right side and Mango Madness over the left edge of the Ruby to add a little more color.

To make my sample into a mini quilt: I layered the masked fabric with cotton batting and a cotton backing, creating a quilt sandwich and with light yellow embroidery thread, free motion quiltied the outline of the dress form first and filled the background with a random pattern. After completing the quilting I straightened the edges and zig-zag stitched them to stop any fraying.


Then, hand stitched some paper doilys onto the sides and layered a few embellishments.

The top has some gold Hambly rub-ons applied after the quilting - I love the look of rub-ons on fabric.



I have some other samples from creating my video and I'll share those with you as I complete them.
Thanks and I hope you enjoy another way to play with your Shimmerz Spritz! To see all of the DT videos together in one place visit the Ed Team Vlog.

Lucy

5 comments:

Carmen said...

Beautiful piece of art. I have never used the Shimmerz, but love sparkly projects!!

TanishaRenee said...

How clever Lucy! I love the way you offset the mask and great point about layering the colors!!

Lori Renn said...

Lucy, that is outstanding! Awesome job. I am so proud of you and in awe of your talent!

Anonymous said...

This is amazing!Love that technique and I love your project Lucy!!
Thanks so much for sharing!

Stac said...

Lucy this is wonderful on so many levels!!!! You really hit it outta the park. Outstanding!!