As I was working on designing and constructing Low Pressure, I took some time to make a custom painted back for the quilt. The back is not normally displayed, but I enjoying making them unique, and like looking at it as I spend many hours quilting the work. I followed my usual procedure of swirling textile paint on cotton sateen, misting it with the hose, then letting it dry on my cracked driveway. There is wet, above, and finished, below.
I added leaf vein details to the prints with stitching, then worked to the edges of the blocks with echo quilting, repeating and merging the shapes of the leaves.
The connecting strips for the blocks were all pieced out of silks, many of them with plaids or floral designs. I felt that the prints were low key enough that they would be balanced by some intricacy in the sashing. I quilted the sashing with swirling designs representing turbulence.
Up next, the reveal.
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2 comments:
Sue, this looks awesome and I appreciate seeing how you quilted around the leaves and merged those lines. Can't wait to see the whole.
Barbara Wise
Thanks Babara!
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