Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Create unique fabric for an art quilt with Pine Cone stencils

For this project I used all 5 stencils in my new Pine Cone Stencil series for StencilGirl Products.

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First, stencil the images onto a piece of cloth. I used 200 thread count cotton, that had been coffee dyed. 
I added batting to the back of the cloth, then, on the back, used a stenciled tracing paper to machine stitch the outline of the pine cone.
Free motion stitching, semi-carefully following the stencil lines.

Here's the back of the quilt, with the paper still on it.
Turn the quilt over and see your outline of the pine cone.

I cut up the stenciled and quilted fabric to reassemble it.

It needed a focal point, so I enlarged the stencil image, added a piece of tulle to the FRONT and stitched the outline on the back of the quilt.

Then, I cut away the tulle, around the pine cone image, to create a lavender pine cone as a focal point on the quilt.

Pine Cone Confetti by Jane LaFazio (measures 17  x 15.5 inches)
I designed these stencils for StencilGirl Products. This quilt uses all the stencils in my Pine Cone Stencil series.  You can find all my stencils here.

3 comments:

  1. Wow,what a fun idea, thanks for showing the process. There's a lot of things to do with that stencil.

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  2. Thanks you for sharing so many wonderful ways of using your stencils, Jane.
    Inspiration abounds!

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  3. thank you for all the pine cone inspiration. your stencils arrived in the post today and I can't wait to start a similar project like this! Thank you so much for all the wonderful ideas!

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