I made this quilt as a gift for someone who wanted to gift it to a friend who had recently lost her beloved mother to cancer…
I began with a coloured image, simplified it by removing the background and cropping it to focus on the faces, converting it to black and white and playing around with the contrast till I had an image that held your attention. I then posterised it on Pinetools, a free website, where you can do several great things with your pics online!
Here are some of the steps of the collage and quilting process…
I used the freezer paper method for the collage. I printed one copy of the posterised image full size on regular paper and glued it together. This is the guide. Since there were two figures, I worked on them one at a time.
I printed another copy of the image on freezer paper and cut out pieces from it, use them as templates to build the collage on muslin.
You can see that I have skipped the really tiny curves on the templates. I was working only with glue, no fusible, so this was the way to go. If you have your fabric prepped with two-way fusible, you can cut out much finer detail on your templates.
The figures are assembled and time to start on the quilting. I chose a dark background so that focus stayed on the mother-daughter duo.
And an earring for the daughter too!
Though the background quilting was a simple meander, I shaded it out from the figures, changing threads from black, through blues to white.
Here is the back!
And here is the final quilt!
Hope you enjoyed looking at the process as much as at the final product!
To my quilter friends, Happy Quilting!
Share this:
