Conversation Heart Finished

[anne_d]

Well, it's done.

Previous posts showing the progress of the project:

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

And the finished heart:



The whole thing, from the top of the hanger to the bottom of the tassel, is about 18" tall, with about 11½" of that being the fabric heart panel.

Materials include: Assorted cotton fabrics, cotton batting, trims, fibers, embroidery thread, charms, beads, vintage sew-ons and rhinestones, a button with a dragonfly on, a butterfly applique and some vintage-style flowers, and 12-gauge florists' wire for the hanger. I'm rather pleased with the placement of the applique and the way it continues the line of the purple seam binding (and those are French knots in turquoise craft thread, by the way; I'm not half bad with those).

Little details:

The horizontal charm on the moon & star fabric says "Believe", and the vertical charm says "Anything is Possible..." (to which my mind replies "Even a tree", but never mind). Oddly enough, I put the same vertical charm on my other Tammy Gilley class project, the Quilted Totem Banner. Perhaps I really need reminding sometimes. The "Amor" is printed on muslin with our elderly inkjet printer; there's specially stabilized paper-backed muslin for that. It also works for rubberstamping with fabric inks, and you can write on it with fabric pens and Sharpies and so on. Great stuff.

Frida has Czech glass flowers and leaves beaded over her headdress, and a hand-charm earring. It's the wrong way around from her real ones, but I was working with what I have, and I liked the look of the spiral. Also there's a winged heart charm on one of the milagro hearts on the (your) left panel.

The yo-yo (lower right panel) is made from the backing fabric, and has purple beads around the edge and the glass button with dragonfly on top. I used a nifty Clover yo-yo maker, which is much easier than the old technique of cardboard circles.

I had a hell of a time with the tassel; I spent an entire frustrating evening reworking it. Until it hit me (duh) that the tassel didn't need to be spectacular, the heart already was.

So that's it. I may try another conversation heart in a while. I'd like to get better at machine quilting, and it's a nice small canvas on which to practice.

Comments

[yorick28.livejournal.com]

Really lovely, Anne.

[anne_d]

Thanks!