Sounds fascinating it would be good if there was a class on TQS to learn the technique. Your coneflower is very good.

Rita I really like your scrappy quilt

Susan, there is a teeny bit of bleeding, so you just have to stop your liquid medium about 1/8 inch before you reach an edge. It was pretty controllable, even for a newbie like me.

Connie, the coneflower is beautiful. I'm intrigued with the pastels. Did you have any problem with bleeding? Derwent Intense Pencils will work in a similar fashion, but a base of textile medium is needed if bleeding will cause a problem.

Rita, Love the Red/Pink/White. Wow, this color combo is calling my name more and more. The difference in values really adds to just how interesting your quilt is! Well done.

Rita! Rita! Rita! I LOVE it! Wish I lived in Dingle. Those are so much my colours!

Love your quilt Rita. That is one lucky house in dingle!
The coneflower is also very beautiful!
Well done, ladies.

Thanks for the info Connie. I don't think I have seen them before but I will have a look out for them now. Limbania, thank you. I was just using up scraps and more scraps so the glow/sparkle is a coincidence and not a well thought out plan. You are all so kind and encouraging. I love seeing what everybody else is doing - very inspirational.

Renata wrote:
Renata, I'm not sure who the maker of the fabric is (no selvages left) but like you I sure do love it!

Reetzbobeetz wrote:

Rita, the product used for coloring my coneflower was Caran D'ache Neocolor II water-soluble wax pastels. They look and apply just like a crayon, but once you brush on water they magically transform into watercolors. We used a 50/50 mixture of water and textile medium for the brushing stage, then heat set the fabric with an iron after it dried. Just how permanent this process is I'm not sure, so I will use it only for things not likely to be laundered.

Rita you quilt is fantastic! Renata is right, it seems to glow/sparkle.


Connie, your coneflower quilt is precious. Love the border too!

Connie and Rita, love your works.
My quilt is quilted on a Bernina 440QE, the thread used is King Tut in different colors. Same in bobbin.

Fabulous work Connie, Rita & Norma.

Norma do you have a long arm or is it done on a domestic machine? I need lessons a a whole lot practice!

Ditto's with all comments

Connie your cone flower quilt is beautiful! How wonderful to be able to do that. But I must ask you are wax pastels the same as oil pastels? Are they soft or hard? I ask because my father uses soft oil pastels in his work and they blend beautifully so I am wondering if these are the same. Also, do you do anything to them to make them permanent or is that just not a worry with a wall quilt?

Thanks for the kind comments about my quilt everybody. I should probably have done a lot more lines to be more 'modern' but I used cotton batting and I was worried about it becoming stiff as a board.

Nanapie, I used two different variegated pink threads on the top (Wonderfil and Sulky) - and a variegated red (also Wonderfil)in the bobbin because the back of the quilt is red with black spots. I was amazed at how much thread it used. I had thought that 500mtrs of Wonderfil would be enough but I had to find an alternative which was the Sulky because we can't get the Wonderfil here except at the big show in November.

Rita, your quilt is beautiful! One question, what color/type thread did you use for the quilting in the top and bobbin?

Lovely cone flower and I like your border too, Connie. (I also think I have the same fabric as your border... is it perhaps Mandarin Dynasty Style by Hoffman?)