February 19 ~ Quilt of the Day
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Twinkle Quilt |
Malka adds, “I machine pieced and quilted it. All the circles were created using a shibori technique called itajime. I cut fabric (some commercial, some my own hand dyes) into squares and then clamped a plexiglass circle to both the front and back of the square. I basically made a sandwich with the fabric in between two plexi circles. I then discharged (bleached) the fabric. The plexi keeps the bleach from seeping into the circle area. Sometimes, after discharging, I overdyed the squares into another color. Once I had enough squares, I started piecing them together. My idea/inspiration comes from how much I love commercial fabric, but I want to find a way to incorporate my love for dyeing and surface design. I think that totally drives my work.” If you are not yet familiar with Malka’s beautiful quilting, please make a point to visit her a stitch in dye blog. Malka’s work is amazing.
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67 Responses to “February 19 ~ Quilt of the Day”
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Love the colors and circles!
Lovely blog, and beautiful quilts!
That is fascinating! The quilt is beautiful and I never would have guessed at the technique used to achieve it. Going to be thinking all week about how to do something like this with the kids, maybe with overdying instead of discharging, but either way I think they would really enjoy the process. Thanks for another great post!
i LOVE this quilt!! i’m already trying to figure out how i might get a similar effect without the discharging…
Oh my goodness, this is stunning! Thank you for making me aware of her work and her blog.
I just love this quilt and I’m so fascinated by the technique. I agree with Kate that it would be a good experiment with kids (older than mine though). My favorite part is the circle in the top right that looks like it is slipping into the next square
What a fascinating way to make a lovely design. Something that would be fun to experiment with!
This is really cool! I love the circles and all the different fabrics!
This is really great. I love the combination of the commercial fabrics with the hand-dyed fabrics.
wow. This is amazing!! I love circle quilts, and I love that this is dyed(undyed)! Very cool!
Thanks so much for sharing this with us! Malka’s interests are very much like mine. I think I’ll really enjoy her blog!
This quilt is as beautiful as her pillows! Love it!
This quilt is amazing!! What an unusual technique!
Wow! I’ve never seen anything like it!
What an interesting process -it is wonderful to read of how people are thinking out of the box – or “off of the bolt” to come up with something so unique.
Love the circles. I have such a hard time with them and they always end up crinkly so that i’ve given up on anything with circles.
So so beautiful!! What a creative way to see all of the fabrics we’re used to in a new light! Wonderful.
This is awesome. I checked out her blog and her work is beautiful. Wish I had some of that talent!
Your quilt is beautiful and your blog is great. Now i want to try to do some hand dyed fabric. Thanks
I LOVE IT!
What a cool technique! Thanks so much for sharing this. Love the idea of over-dying after bleaching. It really looks awesome.
Anna
What a great idea.
What a great idea! Can’t wait to break out the bleach.
This quilt is so darling! It has so much color and movement!
andreaelizabeth
Gorgeous!
Oh my gosh, that method is amazing! I love the result. What a neat way to combine commercial and home-dyed textiles.
Great blog! I really like the pillows she’s created.
Very creative and beautiful
You do beautiful work with your fabrics – love your blog!
Love the discharged circles. I’m enjoying this month of quilts. Thanks.
okay, that’s just amazing!
The circles are so cool!
Love the circles and colors! I’m a huge polka dot fan, so this really appeals to me…it makes me happy to look at it! And the technique she used to make it is so cool…I would have never thought of that.
I happened to catch a quilting show on HGTV this morning that also focused on circles, using a freezer paper technique. May want to check it out, as they also showed what happened if you moved the circle over pieced fabric, or used multiple circles.
Wow–I thought all those circles were stitched when I first saw the quilt. What a great idea. Beautiful quilt!
I’ve never heard of this technique before–thanks for sharing it here! Did Malka make the plexiglass circles and clamps, or are they available to buy somewhere? PS Malka’s blog is one of my favorites.
Wow! Thanks everyone!
I love polka dots!
Lovely quilt! Thanks for including how the circles were cut. I’m new to quilting and circles and curves are a bit scary right now.
I love this quilt and featured it and Malka on my blog, too. http://wholeclothdesigns.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/coolest-quilter-on-etsy-a-stitch-in-dye/
I’ve never heard of this technique and it is so interesting. It does sound like a LOT of work though it is a magnificent quilt!
So cute!
Oh, yay! I love Malka’s work. So inspiring.
wow. what a wonderful and creative lady and quilt!
Love the hand-dyed!
I love this quilt. What an original and beautiful way to leave a mark on purchased fabrics. Its a real case of “dialogical quilt making”, where the fabric designer and the quiltmaker are interacting in the space of the fabric.
Wow! What a cool idea. And it turned out so beautiful.
It’s absolutely beautiful!
gorgeous and such an intriguing method.
Love it!!
Well that’s a very unique technique!
Wow, that’s beautiful! I’ve never seen anything like it before…very unique!
This is fab! All the quilty-goodness with a circle twist!
Way cool! Sounds complicated but the results are stunning!
Ooh! those are my favorite colors. What a beautiful quilt!
Love the quilt, great colours!
I love this quilt! It is so unique and gorgeous! What fun to dye your fabric yourself.
I don’t know that I have ever seen a quilt like that.
That dying is amazing! I couldn’t figure out how she had pieced circles in squares.
This reminds me of the summer, going to Baskin Robins after a long, hot day of walking around down town. There are so many different flavors of ice cream and they all look so delicious! It’s hard to pick which flavor. Will it be the plain, but classic and delicious vanilla? Or will it be the colorful cotton candy bubble gum? I say, go crazy and slap them both onto a waffle cone!
Well, basically what I am trying to say is, this quilt has a little bit of everything good, and it uses combinations that might surprise you work well together !
This quilt is delicious! Layers upon layers of polka dots, what could be better? I never would have guessed at how she achieved the look, truly amazing.
I love all the dots!
Oh, these circles and dots – absolutely gorgeous!!!!!
I’ve never heard of that process before. Thanks for sharing.
Wow! Thank you for sharing this quilt … I love that the technique is so different … and inspiring.
So cool!
I love polka dots and so polka dots within polka dots is totally fun and mesmerizing!!!