While my husband and the shopkeeper were loading said pot onto the back of the pickup, I wandered to the rear of the shop and spotted a concrete cast Menorah that spoke to us, and it also came home to grace the front wall of our garden shed for a number of years.
While we haven't gotten around (yet) to hanging it here, I got it out of the garage this morning so we could take a new photo.
Back in 2012 during the year-long FMQ Challenge hosted by SewCalGal I had the idea of trying to create a quilted version of this piece. Although I can't recall now how I did it, I managed to sketch a slightly smaller edition of the design and began attempting to freemotion quilt it, and tried a bit of threadpainting. At some point it was tossed aside, then in 2014 we moved cross country and in early 2015 moved again to our current home. After coming home from last weekend's auction and starting a little hoe-out of the sewing room, it was rediscovered in a back corner of the closet along with five or six other unfinished practice pieces. I just couldn't toss it back in the closet and decided to finish it, and here is my September mini (the first completed mini of the year).
It could probably use more quilting in the menorah background, but done is also feeling very good! I added the radiating lines on Monday, squared it up and found some batik binding that I hoped would compliment the golden light background quilting on the piece. The finished quilt is about 11-1/2 inches square.
So fun to have this one finished at last!
12 comments:
It’s lovely, Pat. I think it’s perfect just the way it is.
WOW! Aren't you getting fancy! Congrats on the mini finish! This must be the start of your personal quilting time. If so you are off to a great start.
You did an amazing job on this one. The detail is perfect.
Very creative! It looks lovely and it's a fabulous finish.
An excellent interpretation of that piece! And I think the choice of binding is very effective.
Wow. I like the concrete version and you have done a fabulous job of reproducing it in fabric.
It was genius to add the golden batik binding! It really does pulls the background out. Can I ask how you created the color of the background originally? Is that all from thread painting?
Love the story that goes with this. It is really beautiful. You created a lot of dimension and texture with the quilting, and I love it! That on line class taught us a lot didn't it?
Well aren't you the clever one? The stone menorah is beautiful, and your adaptation of it is even beautiful-er! I think that linear background quilting sets it off perfectly. No more quilting needed. I think you can be very proud that you turned this UFO into a finish. Found during a "hoe-out" of your sewing room. .. ha, ha. I love that. I guess now that I've been in this house going on seven years, I'm probably overdue for another "hoe-out." Ha. I can be a gardener INSIDE my house! It's sure as shootin' that I'm not a gardener on the outside! :-)
Very beautiful! Great quilting job. I participated in that same challenge and am so glad for the things I learned, although sometimes I don't take the time that I should while quilting because I just want to get it done.
Both pieces are exquisite...your interpretation of the stone menorah is wonderful and your quilting is perfect. Beautiful!
Oh my gosh your piece is simply fabulous...love love love it and I do love the pot and manora as well.
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