chocake2's Gallery : Batiks, Home Machine

Sprout's Star

chocake2 — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:12:42 GMT

My children chose the fabrics and designed the quilt for thier new sibling. All I had to do was sew it all together! We had some trouble with the background, since the original plan was to use plain white, but that looked flat. The random pocka-dot print worked much better. I love the stripe-y binding that DD insisted I use! The backin is flannel, so it'll be extra cozy for the baby. I learned long ago to make baby quilts extra big so they can use them as they get older. By the time they start pre-school and want a snuggle blanket, it's all broken in and familure!

Ammonite wallie

chocake2 — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:51:19 GMT

This idea popped into my wee little head and before I had time to really think about it, I started sewing, fallowing it's lead. There were days when it would progress very nicely and then all of a sudden my inspiration was gone. A week or so later, it'd "talk" to me again and I'd go back to stitching, never really knowing where the project was going. The fan coral presented the biggest challenge. It is 3 layers of net (Green, purple and red) layered with angelina fibers and fused. I put blue 'fingers' of tulle behind it, but the effect is so subtle you can hardly see them. *Shug* Live and learn...

Lurin' 'em in

chocake2 — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:59:02 GMT

This is just a funky odd block I made. I added borders and used it for FMQ practice . Va-la! Instant Wallie!

sunshine!!

chocake2 — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:09:01 GMT

I was sorting throug my stash a few years ago and noticed that I seemed to have an abundance of Yellow/Orange/Red and Blue/Purple.I grabbed my rotery cutter and chopped a mountain of squares, big and small, and randomly pieced them together. Then I handed the pile of blocks to the kids and told them to figure out a lay-out. In a weeks time we had a top...but finding a border for it!! That was a nightmare! It sat in the closet waiting to be finished for months before, on a fluke, I saw the perfect batik in the sale bin of my favorite quilt shop! I wasn't even looking with that top in mind when I found it!

Home on the Range

chocake2 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:00:27 GMT

Fantasy in a fansaty

chocake2 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:55:27 GMT

I Used me DD for the model for this. Originally the fairy was nude, but her father had a fit so I had to fashion her a dress. The moon started out the same color as her skin, but the night sky bled something terrible when I painted the moon-glow on it. I liked the effect, so I left it.

fall wallhanging

chocake2 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:46:31 GMT

This is a companian piece to the sunflowers.

Fabri-gami Clock

chocake2 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:43:56 GMT

Justa fun little folded fabric block that I turned into a clock for our livingroom. It makes a quick afternoon project.

Glue-resist art quilt

chocake2 — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:05:01 GMT

Ok, Here it is, in all of it's finished glory! This is the quilt I've been working on in the class I'm teaching at the art studio. The Glue-resist technique results in a rather batik-y look. You might need to copy it and zoom to see the details (I'm so much better with thread then a camera!). I painted over it with some irridesent shimmers. The inner (red) border is scalloped and embellished with seed beads (love the texture that added). It's stitched with metalics and has blingy-thingies glued on here and there to help balance the sparkle factor.

Rainbow Prairie

chocake2 — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:01:01 GMT

A fun experiment with two color Prairie Points.

Byron's Life

chocake2 — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:58:14 GMT

My brother comishioned me to make this for our Uncle who was suffering from Parkenson's desease. He had been a Heuy pilot during hte Vietnam war. His great pleasure in life was fly fishing, so I combined his interests into this lap quilt. I mailed it to my aunt, only to learn that he died 2 days after recieving it. I regret that I didn't sew faster.I don't know if he ever even saw it... but his family displayed it on the pulpit during his funeral and my cousins all swear that when they think of their father, the image I made is what they feel. I guess I didn't fail completely if it brings them comfort.

Edit: I had originally typed "He died 2 days before his death".... now how anyone could manage that is beyond me! That's what I get for trying to write while the kids are jabbering at me. LOL Oh well..it's fixed now. *Blush*

The Politician

chocake2 — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:49:31 GMT

He stands so proudly in all his brightly colored glory, Loudly proclaiming he greatness from high on his manure pile...

Rastafarian Fun

chocake2 — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:02:33 GMT

This is a sofa throw I made on commision. My friend traded me a firewooding truck in exchange for a quilt...not a bad deal, eh! He had seen a silly screan saver I had up featuring this amphibianand liked it so much that he asked me to design the quilt around it. Talk about a challenge! I made the little peace symbols out of white organza and quilted it with leaves. It's backed with fleece.

Sunflowers in the Sun

chocake2 — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:29:48 GMT

I made this wallhanging last summer. It's now on display in an art gallery near here. Someday maybe somebody will buy it.... :S

Bee-utiful Flowers

chocake2 — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:23:50 GMT

This is "Bee-utiful Flowers. I'm ashamed this took me so long... It started out to be a wall-hanging, but I decided to make it into a pillow cover instead.

I printed words on cloth to make the center of the flowers. They read "Forgiving" "Couragious" "Generous" "Productive" and "Cheerful." I quilted the words " Peaceful" "Creative" "Content" and "...'Lieve" into the borders and the word "Just..." in the sky.

I had originally planned to make beads to embellish it with, but, Gosh, that was gonna take an awful lot of time, not to mention glass... so then I thought i'd just embroider it. THEN I saw the cute buttons in the store, and. being the lazy cuss that I am, I took the easiest way out! LOL If you were to copy my design, you'd probably come up with a jillion other ways to add bees to your flowers!

While I was sitting in the sunshine, stitching the last of the buttons on, a friendly little huney bee can buzzing by and landed not far from my feet. I wonder what the little guy was doing out this time of the year? It's getting pretty chilly for bugs...