Vinyl and Lindt chocolate truffle wrappers. Size 16" x 15". Completed February 13, 2019, for Quilt Lab Experiment: Unconventional Materials
The Quilt Lab group at Gotham Quilts in Manhattan has monthly 'experiments'. Some are more successful than others for me, and I don't always complete a project. This month was inspired by the Project Runway Unconventional Materials challenges. Of course, I picked chocolate wrappers.
A Lindt Chocolates shop opened on 34th Street; I pass by twice a day. The truffles are arranged in bins by color and flavor. I bought a bag of truffles, and did the 'hard work' of eating the chocolates, saving all the colorful wrappers.
I tried various methods of attaching the wrappers to a background. Sewing wrinkled it, Ironing melted it, so I decided to glue the wrappers to vinyl. I wanted to recreate a quilt block called "Candy Twist", so I carefully cut and
folded the wrappers to fit into a gridwork, I could see by placing the
vinyl on my cutting mat.
Since the wrappers aren't covered, they remain shiny, metallic.
I'm completely charmed by this.
Peace.
Pieced bargello-style rainbow wings, machine quilted. Completed February 9, 2019. Size 14" x 16". Made for Project Quilting challenge 10.3. Click on that link to vote for your 10 favorite quilts this week
This week we lost our amazing friend, Janet Mease (center in this photo) She was funny, honest, snarky, foul mouthed, loving, kind, and generous. We met in an online group in February 2013.
Adva and I went to visit her in San Luis Obispo a few times, and made a small quilt for her when she opened her quilt shop. Here is a post about that quilt.
I created this image of her for our FB group.
Janet was colorful, in every meaning of that word. She loved ALL the colors, especially yellow, which she used in her quilts as a neutral. (most people use white/gray/light colors as 'neutral').
I cut thin strips in a full rainbow, sewed them into a strata fabric, added a bright yellow to the top and bottom as my background, then cut that up to create the bargello 'wings' (I'm sorry I don't have process photos, this actually went together very quickly)
On the back, I included a left over strip of Frond Tree of Life panel, which I used on the back of a 'get well' quilt we made for Janet this past summer.
The quilting on this small quilt includes wings, the words 'snowflake sister', which is the hashtag that original FB group uses on other social media, and a row of naughty bits, which I first used on Janet's quilt, and reminds me of her ribald humor.
Godspeed Janet Mease.
I'm going to miss that wild woman.
Peace.
vinyl on my cutting mat. 
