I have started making a crazy quilt block that will depict a sunrise. I looked around for a sunset type of fabric in my stash but I wasn't really happy with any of them. After an unsuccessful painting attempt I decided to go ahead a use the best fabric I could find.
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| First sunrise fabric |
I wasn't really happy and thought that the centre looked a bit heavy and didn't have the delicate, soft look that I was going for.
I was looking through my fabrics for something else and came across and a fabric that was much more suitable, but I had already foundation pieced my block!
I decided to change it and because I didn't want to make a new block, I unpicked the centre stitching and carefully removed the first fabric.
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| Centre fabric removed |
You can just see the fabric that I used as a foundation underneath where I had removed the centre fabric. Then I cut out the new fabric to exactly the size I needed plus a seam allowance.
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| New sunrise fabric |
I did add a little bit of paint to make the sunrise spread a glow a little more. Then I carefully inserted the new fabric and appliqued it in place.
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| New sunrise centre fabric |
No one would know that it wasn't the original fabric, so I was very happy to solve that problem. I think I took the photo above before I had actually done the applique stitching.
Bye for now,
Linda
2 comments:
looks good, will look forward to seeing what you do next
Thanks Judy, it's coming along nicely
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