Pure Country Quilts - Prince Charming
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PRINCE CHARMING, 32”32” This all started with the toad! My friend, Mary Jones, in Texas believes if you kiss enough toads, you will get Mel Gibson! I made the toad and she felt he needed an environment. Working from a sketch that I had drawn, I put together a garden environment for the toad and his friends, the hummingbirds and the bees. These were all free motion embroidered and appliquéd to the quilt. The Thimbleberries blossoms, the Mountain Columbine flowers, the rocks, stream, and log were fusible web appliquéd, and the vines were done by making bias strips and stitching them down by machine to create texture. The leaves on the vine were made 3 dimensional using fusible web and florist wire stitched into the leaves, making them positionable. Under one of the center leaves, there is an ‘intruder’ in the garden….my kitty, Brindle, who is surveying the scene in front of her with great curiosity. I machine quilted this, stitching in more leaves and foliage into the background and stitching in detail on all elements that needed texture. |
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