Completed Miniature Quilt

Well, finally I have totally completed the miniature quilt for my C&G diploma including paperwork. It's taken a while with lots of understanding from my wonderful tutor, but here it is complete with hanging system and a few pages from my sketch book.

I rarely work in miniature and probably won't again (never say never though!) The extra good news is that I have also passed onto my next module which is all full of things I enjoy such as various different types of applique, tessellation, embellishments and mixed media. I will share progress with you.

Miniature Quilt

As promised images of my miniature quilt. This week seems to have flown by, most evenings spent making a Norman castle with DS for history homework. I have been impressed though as he has done most of it. Our secret method was "No more nails", fantastic for big boys junk modelling. Any way, here is a close up of the bottom left,
And the bottom right

And the whole piece. It measures 5" x 7", made from tissue paper, lutradur, plastic, organza and a tiny amount of angelina fibre. The binding was the plastic net shower curtain stuff (I'm sure it has a technical name though)

My tutor is pleased, just hope DS history teacher likes the castle tomorrow as well!!

snow dyeing results

Here just for sweetiepie are the late photos of my snow dyeing. It seems to have taken me a week to get these on as life has a nasty habit of all too often getting in the way. I used procion cold water dyes, turquoise and magenta. The colours are not great, I had plans to photograph them outside but it has rained all day here.

I had some black and red left over and this was the result of that snow dyeing -

I have also been working on this, my miniature quilt made from tissue paper, lutradur and plastic (with a small amount of plastic)
It has a lot of hand stitching which doesn't show up on the photo. Just at the point of putting on the binding (plastic shower wash thing- do you know what I mean?) it had a major accident. I had green painted tissue paper under the white, all subtle when small child came and picked it up with wet hands. After consulting with my tutor I bravely put more water onto the tissue. This then meant the bottom plastic circle was not dominate enough, it receded too much. You can't see how much stitch went into this, the image below is slightly better. My aim for tonight is to get this plastic binding sewn on. If I manage this I will post photos tomorrow.