Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Starting off 2013 I wanted to continue
doing some challenge pieces. I also
wanted to continue having a goal of
making 50 pieces of art by the end of the year since I found the process to be
so valuable in expanding my skills and creativity.
My next challenge piece was for the
Quilting Arts ‘Map it Out’ reader challenge.
I decided to create a piece that looks like a crazy quilt by starting
with a picture of a map which I found on a piece of scrapbook paper. I opened it in Photoshop Elements and using
the paint bucket tool, I filled in the spaces between the roads with different
patterns. Once I completed my design, I
saved it as a jpg file and uploaded it to Spoonflower , a website where you can order your own fabric designs. It can take up to a couple of
weeks to get custom fabric printed and shipped, so when using an online service
for this purpose, you have to allow that time into your project. Once I received the fabric, I stitched it to
batting and added hand embroidery stitches and beads as is often done with
crazy quilts. I named my piece ‘Crazy
Map’, and it appeared in the June/July issue of the magazine.
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