Last week I saw this blog post from Linda's landscapes about ghost quilting and loved the idea. She saw the idea in a AQS magazine that was written by Martha Ginn. The reason I am titling this post zombie ghost quilting is because I didn't do it the way the others did. I got carried away using my inktense pencils and there is no ghost but a colored in version. The next one I will try to refrain from playing with pencils and make it more ghosty but here is what I did.
First I cut a 6" square from a vintage decorator fabric that I had in my stash.
Fused it to a white background and penciled in where the square was cut off and then some. I then free motion quilted over the pencil using a brown thread.
After doing an overall meandering with white thread I probablly should have stopped right there, maybe adding a hint of color here or there but I had the urge to play so colored with my inktense pencils.
This is what it looks like dry
And this is wet. I used aloe gel to wet it for more control, trying to "color in the lines"
Amazing how the pencils come to life. Now I used a bright green felt for a batting so that's what you see coming thru when it's wet.
But as you can see it goes away when it dries.
Here is the finished and bound piece - I'm liking it.
Now the way I did this I suppose some would say, well why don't you just cut a bigger piece of the fabric, quilt and bind that and be done with it but where would the fun be in that? Plus I like this so much better - more interest - don't you think?
What would you call this - non - ghost quilting ?
I am linking up to Nina's Off the Wall and the Rainbow challenge who's color is yellow this month.
Oh, BTW - go to the quiltshow.com starting today thru the week end they are letting anyone watch the videos for free and there are some really good ones. You just have to create an account to log in hut it's completely free!
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