by Sandra | September 24th, 2009
So yesterday I was playing with an idea I had been mulling over for about a week or so for a dimensional chocolate on my quilt’s label. After several attempts, I think I am close to my idea. I had to remake the chocolate several times because of the bulk created on the back of the chocolate from all of the gathering. I did not want distortion to appear on the front of the quilt from a bulky chocolate attached to the label on the back so I needed to reduce this bulk.
I didn’t completely succeed, but I got pretty close, and I am satisfied to call this label done. In the future, I would fussy cut the chocolate’s fabric better since the white frosting ended up covering up the lovely golden contrasting swirls and left, for the most part, only the darker “chocolate” part visible. I didn’t take that little tidbit into account when I was fussy cutting. Whoops.
For a label, this is major for me to put this amount of effort into it. By the time I am done with a quilt, I am so over it and taking the time to make a pretty label just doesn’t interest me. I sheepishly admit I slap any old thing on there just to get my vital quilt info (name and address) on the quilt. I really loved this quilt even when I was finished with it, so I took the time to make a nice label.
Wasn’t I a good girl? LOL
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That’s looks good enough to eat !!!!!
Great idea ! I still don’t know how you come up with these ideas , never mind make them happen so wonderfully .
Now I have a chocolate craving ! and no chocolate in the house !
Ditto, Boop.
All I can say is YUM!!!!!!!!! It really does look good enough to eat! What a clever idea.
I have to say, these are fun and the size of a quarter or a smidge larger. My imagination never shuts off, even when I go to bed! I just go with the flow of my brain and try to keep up.
Food is so much fun to applique and detail out. I have a small lemon teacake I designed that did not make it on the tea quilt that I might just make up as a small little quilt. Right now I am on a ‘food’ roll. no pun intended.
Hmmmm, should we also make some chocolates at Asilomar for fun Marion?
Sandra, does your book have a title yet?
I have one ques. Will it melt when you wash it ? LOL !
sorry I couldn’t control myself ; )
Frances,
Just a working title I gave them three years ago when I signed the contract. I will ask to change it since the huge influx of crafting materials into quilting in the last three years will lead to the wrong “first impression”.
The original working title was “The Beauty is in the Details: embellishment technique for applique. It is the word “embellishment” now that is tricky and could be interpreted incorrectly.
I think I will submit my updated idea of “Beyond the Basics Applique” to the editor. Although I don’t want everyone to think the book is for advanced appliquers only. It is not, I break down the steps of needleturn and then move on to how to take it to the next level with the detail techniques.
The tea quilt I have been working on is the main pattern in the book and I am structuring it so that by creating the elements and their details, it should leave you with the ability to apply the techniques learned to your projects of choice. In other words, take your quilts beyond the basic applique you see today and wow your friends and family.
You won’t necessarily have to make the quilt in order to understand this either. I am a visual person so pictures should tell the story and teach.
You all accomplished Extraordinary results in the Quilters Escape workshop so you know it is absolutely do-able with a few added bits and the right direction riiiiiight?????
What do you think would be an appealing title, anyone?
ROFLOL ………..
Boop please, please give me a ‘spew’ warning! Fortunately I turned my head in time after taking a sip of coffee!!!
Fortunately it won’t melt when I wash it.
You have NO idea how much I needed that laugh today! Thank you
Going back to a very early blog of yours (“The Value of Detail Work” posted February 3rd) the is a photograph of a beautifully appliqued wooden door in a stone arch doorway— what quilt is that from? Can you show us a picture of that quilt (or will it be in The Book
) It looks amazing; I would love to see the whole piece.
oops, I meant:
…THERE is a photograph…
It is from a quilt I started six years ago and have worked on and off (mostly off). It is not finished, a UFO of sorts. It will not be in the book. I haven’t decided whether to scrap it, do it over, or finish it eventually.
I wish I could share it and the full tea quilt now, but unfortunately the design would be ripped off in a heartbeat and I would see my design or parts of it in a national quilt show or a pattern before I could benefit from my own hard work. Sad commentary isn’t it?
Please finish that quilt! What appeared in your blog is amazing, just so beautifully worked. I can only imagine that the quilt would be yet another masterpiece… (I’m quite serious). I DO hope to see the completed quilt someday. How many UFOs do you have? Did you simply lose your inspiration for that quilt?
The design was really complicated, which is why originally it was put on the shelf until my skill could catch up.
Since there are approx. 1,000 leaves in a 45″ sq. area, I couldn’t quite bring myself to drop it and so it has sat on the shelf for 4 of the six years.
The problem I have now is the fabrics are looking dated–what to do. I don’t want to do all of those leaves all over again! Then I have all of those new quilt ideas bursting to get out into fabric. Sigh, never enough time huh?
The garden doors in real life though are awesome if I do say so myself. The little handles look so real you want to reach out and open them. There are four of them surrounding a knot garden. That is all I will reveal.
Oh and my mom has also been on me to finish this quilt too.
Details for Tea? The Devil’s in the Details? Detail Oriented Applique? Applique in Detail?
I was wondering why you were being such a tease with your pictures – hadn’t even thought about what you mentioned… that’s pretty sad, isn’t it? Sheesh…
There is a book called “Applique Beyond the Basics …” . How about after the word “basics ” add somehting that identifies you , such as
“Sandra’s Stupendous Stitches ”
“Sandra’s Stitchwitchery”
“Sandra’s Sumptious Stitches”
“SAndra’s Embroidered Elegance”
Thanks for the ideas Michelle and Sara, now you have my brain rolling.
Wow! Chocolate at Asilomar! I’m ready!