| Hurray, it's my turn for the Wake Me Up to Kona Bloghop. I have had sew much fun making these projects. Participating in this Kona bloghop was the perfect opportunity to practice my free motion quilting, make some practical useful items and try my hand at some new techniques. As always, a big shout out of thanks to our marvelous cheerleaders, Madame Samm at Sew We Quilt and Carol at Just Let Me Quilt. Amanda Murphy and her beautiful book Color Essentials, Sunrise and Sunset bundles from Robert Kaufman and lovely threads from Aurifil are our wonderful sponsors. Here are the other bloggers on my day. I can't wait to see what everyone creates with these wonderful fabrics.
January 20
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| This pillow sure brightens up my living room couch on a wintry January day! Machine appliqued figure skate (my favorite Winter Olympic sport) from a Fig Trees Pattern. Lori Kennedy at The Inbox Jaunt inspired small snowflakes and I FMQed the larger snowflakes after practicing her pine boughs. |
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| For my Christmas table I made these placemats. I loved using Kona white for my Gail Pan embroidery pattern and the red to practice my FMQ. Inspiration for the quilted Christmas feathers came from Amy at Amys Freemotion Quilting. The word quilting from Leslie at MarveLes Art Studio. |
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| I thought that the Kona could be more than just a palette for my FMQ practice. I made a nice collage of vintage seahorse prints from the internet and a turtle print we had. Then I ironed an 8x11 sheet of interfacing to the Kona and ran it through my printer, transferring the collage onto the KONA light blue. I made my own fabric! I added the turtle applique, some Kona sashing and some FMQ. |
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| Here's the collage in the tote I made. |
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| For the back of the tote I tried out my new Derwent watercolor pencils. First I applied the Kona seahorse applique. Next I embroidered the seahorse on the left. Next I quilted the water bubbles, kelp and threadwork on the applique. Lastly I added the color with dry pencils and applied a thin coat of Folkart textile medium to set the colors. |
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| I tried my hand at a practice whole cloth and added color to my FMQ. The KONA white definitely makes a wonderful canvas for quilting and painting. Inspiration for this technique is from a Deborah Louie whole cloth quilt. I hope you enjoyed my adventures using KONA solids. I have loved seeing all the wonderful projects made by sew many talented quilters. |
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| Happy beautiful winter morning from our lake in NH! |
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| This is a shout out to Madame Samm for her wonderful button pin tutorial. |
