Tuesday 26 June 2012

A day at the beach II

Over the past two years I was lucky enough to have had a few commissions and I was doubly lucky that all of them were great and interesting commissions.

The most interesting one so far is the one I am working on at the moment. About 2 months ago or so I got an e-mail from a gentlemen who lives in the Mediterranean asking me if I could make him a quilt like 'A day at the beach' but a litter larger. He also asked if I would be happy to include some vintage fabric he would sent me, amongst them a few old Paul Smith shirts. Of course I was happy to include other fabrics. So the vintage shirts arrived one day and I was astounded how incredibly soft they were (well I guess one should expect that from a Paul Smith shirt) and then a few weeks later more fabric arrived amongst them those beautiful embroidered pieces and the appliqued boats.





So of I went and pulled out the remainder of my 'Going Coastal' fabric and started to work this week on piecing a quilt top and quilt back. 


I framed the ships in red and navy to make make sure they stand out in the overall design. The shirts were cut into squares and the embroidery pieces cut to size and scattered amongst the other squares.


I am so pleased how it turned out and how wonderful the vintage fabric works together with the modern fabric. And now I am off to the most joyous task of quilting. 





9 comments:

  1. It looks wonderful! Great job.

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  2. Gorgeous actually!! I think he will be very pleased!!

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  3. It's gorgeous. I love how the vintage fabrics blend so seamlessly with the modern ones. Well done!

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  4. Beautiful. I'm hoarding old shirts to make a quilt but hadn't thought to mix them with modern fabric.

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  5. Ooh, wonderful! the vintage and shirting fabrics make the whole thing really unique. I have a stack of Adam's old shirts and charity shop finds saving up to turn into a shirting quilt one day.

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  6. Wonderful quilt,just too darn cute with the boat and all:)

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  7. What a great quilt - I love the additions to the regular quilting fabric xxx

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  8. Wow this looks amazing! The vintage and the new fabric really bends so well!

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  9. This is lovely and beautifully made. I love the sage greens and soft blues, they compliment the brighter colours very well.

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