Thursday, June 14, 2007

Inspiration from Australia

Stephanie wrote: Thought I'd share another quilt. It was made by Dee from my group who was inspired by our sewing day that was featured in the magazine. Her picture is on the blog from that day.

She has an autistic nephew called Lyndon who turned 21 last week. Lyndon loves red, and all things fish. Dee was full of enthusiasm after our Heartstring sewing day and decided to make Lyndon a Heartstring quilt. She used red centres, and all of the strings are inspired by the sea. Fish, dolphins, coral, swirls, water, shells, you get the picture.

Then she fussy cut fish from printed fabrics and appliqued them on with sparkly thread. Quilted waves, swirling current and bubbles in the fishy border. It is gorgeous, the picture really doesn't show how good it looks in real life.

You can see a picture of Dee working on HeartStrings blocks in this previous blog post - scroll down the page to the last photo.

1 comment:

Helen in the UK said...

Another super string quilt. Love the applique fish :)