SAQA AUCTION - STORM

Week Three of the SAQA Auction opens today and my quilt STORM is in this batch of quilts. 

I thought I would show you how I made it.

First I painted a fat quarter of fabric with blues and earth colours using Sun Dye Fabric Paint.

Stitched the top to the bottom to create a tube and then cut it into strips.

The strips were moved up and down slightly to create a Bargello style piece.

 Then I placed a tree silhouette cutout on the quilt top

 and sprayed over it with a metallic green/gold paint creating an outline of the tree and softening the background

 I stitched around the tree shape with a 12 weight Aurifil cotton

and accentuated the sky shapes with a thinner weight cotton.

 I quilted the background in a spiral design which really pops with the painted surface

 It still needed some more and as I thought it looked like a windy storm I decided to add text with stamps which further highlighted with Gem Fabric Paint.

I hope you like it and of course fingers crossed that it sells to raise more money for SAQA.