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Thursday, 19 October 2023

What's In a Quilt - The Green Man - Part 12: Netting

The Green Men you find in old churches are often lurking in dark places. To make that blurry, cobwebby, soft and muted effect for my next Green Man block I used a special technique - layering it with a sheer fabric.

This technique is also used for the famous Happy Village quilts taught by Karen Eckmeier where raw edge scraps of fabric are used to build a village scene. These pieces are lightly glued in place to the foundation fabric. After a sheet of tulle has been placed on top, the whole scene is then quilted down.

Here you can see a city I made with that technique.

I also saw a fantastic portrait of a cat at one of the quilt shows in Tokyo Dome. From a distance, the fur really looked real and very 'touchable'. The effect was produced by tulle.


Below is a detail.



I used not tulle but a fine polyester on top of a painted Green Man.


This is another whole cloth quilt, not a single patch was used! I had to use strong colour paint so the netting would not take too many of the features away.

To be continued ...


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6 comments:

  1. Pamela20 October 2023 at 08:15

    Interesting technique. I will have to try it.

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  2. Rachel20 October 2023 at 20:38

    That cat is stunning, isn't it! And I do like your cobwebbed Green Man!

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  3. https://linsartyblobs.blogspot.com21 October 2023 at 03:56

    I thought the cat was an edited photo when I first saw it. I like your green man.

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  4. Angela22 October 2023 at 22:37

    I love the idea of a painted whole cloth quilt. I do find stitching through paint to be a bit tough though.

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  5. Toki26 October 2023 at 13:52

    I feel that the paint is very effective.

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  6. Carolyn Foley9 November 2023 at 13:34

    Painting cloth goes back some way, pre C15th. It is good to see it being used again. (Like that Green Man.)

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