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Quilting: Lady
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Lady

Lady

Lady (back)
Lady

Instructions

This was a water color painting done by my girl friend back in the 60s while she was in college. Loved it and then with her permission translated it to fiber art.

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Category: Quilting

Type of item: Home Decor

For: Home

Style: Classic


Materials

Dupioni silk fused to Polyester, stitched with Kimono silk for the design, Superior brand Bottom Line for the quilting and for contrasting back Superior brand trilobal polyester. Bamboo linen for binding. The jewelry appliqus were thread painted in a hoop. The filler quilting is "pointy Paisley" from Leah Day's 365 quilting project.

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Surfside6 on craftsy.com
Jan 20, 2013    Flag as inappropriate
Love it. Just fabulous
patches021183159 on craftsy.com
Jan 20, 2013    Flag as inappropriate
This is one of the most striking quilted items I have seen! Fantastic job!
Foxienana on craftsy.com
Jan 24, 2013   Flag as inappropriate
geeee thankx....love working with silk, think i'll try even more
patz in suffolk on craftsy.com
Jan 19, 2013    Flag as inappropriate
Absolutely astonishing - I can't imagine how you did it! Beautiful!