Hoffman 2017

Hoffman Challenge 2017

2017 Hoffman Challenge entry: "A Fist Full of Flowers"

Concepts and Creation: This Quilt was inspired my childhood in Wyoming where "Old West" photographs and paintings run abound. Along with the petite Woman in the quilt, you will notice the two magpies. Traditionally in these styles of images, you would see doves or even crows, but these "fancy crows" as I like to call them frequent my house daily and were the initial inspiration for this quilt. Using the mastery fabric in charcoal and Blooms gave the quilt the perspective of being colourized.

Construction: This quilt used Raw Edge Applique for the main figure and inner border which consisted of Homan Fabrics: Mastery (Charcol & Bloom), 313- Payne's Gray) 92- Slate, Hoffman Digital prints:328-Mulberry,307- Snow, 78-Pewter, 302- Stone, and 55 Charcol) plus a few random fabric from my quilting stash. Free Motion Quilting (Free Hand) for outer border and scroll work was done on my Babylock Jazz. Bead Work featured around the inner border, trellis work and dress took countless hours to string and place on the quilt. Lastly, the Fabric Dying (The use of Fabric safe coloured pencils and a fabric safe media setter)

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The Full and Final Image of my 2017 Hoffman Challenge Entry, "A Fist Full of Flowers"	This images shows the fabric dyes in both the woman and the scroll work.	There are a lot of subtle details in this quilt including thousands of Seed Beads.
	This qult has freshwater pearls in it.	This years Hoffman challenge had so many delightful details including insects which I carefully made sure to leave in the bouquet, as if the woman had just come from a garden.
The flowers in the border	I wanted the swirls to look like old Victorian wallpaper.	Adding scroll work to the quilt. Also notice the subtle details in the dress to make the material look silky.
This quilt has a lot of scroll work designs which were created freehand.		Living in Montana, I was inspired to put magpies into my black in white quilt rather than the traditional white doves or black crows.
this quilt utilized Bias Tape quilting	I wanted this quilt to be primarily monochromatic but with splashes of color. Here your see the Hoffman digital batik "mulberry"	Auditioning fabrics for Quilt. Challenge Fabric is not Present yet.
This is sort of Victorian/Steampunk.	Hoffman Challenge 2017 Mastery Prints and coordinates

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Hoffman Challenge 2017

The Full and Final Image of my 2017 Hoffman Challenge Entry, "A Fist Full of Flowers"

This images shows the fabric dyes in both the woman and the scroll work.

There are a lot of subtle details in this quilt including thousands of Seed Beads.

This qult has freshwater pearls in it.

This years Hoffman challenge had so many delightful details including insects which I carefully made sure to leave in the bouquet, as if the woman had just come from a garden.

The flowers in the border

I wanted the swirls to look like old Victorian wallpaper.

Adding scroll work to the quilt. Also notice the subtle details in the dress to make the material look silky.

This quilt has a lot of scroll work designs which were created freehand.

Living in Montana, I was inspired to put magpies into my black in white quilt rather than the traditional white doves or black crows.

this quilt utilized Bias Tape quilting

I wanted this quilt to be primarily monochromatic but with splashes of color. Here your see the Hoffman digital batik "mulberry"

Auditioning fabrics for Quilt. Challenge Fabric is not Present yet.

This is sort of Victorian/Steampunk.

Hoffman Challenge 2017 Mastery Prints and coordinates