Stitched & Silks Mahyar Batik Panel Quilt
Stitched & Silks Mahyar Batik Panel Quilt
Stitched & Silks Mahyar Batik Panel Quilt
I love these ladies — wonderful exotic ladies! I have been hand stitching on this batik panel by Mahyar for quite awhile now, using Tulip needles (chenille) and the luscious Eleganza pearl cotton by WonderFil Specialty Threads.
This was my take along travel project, and the girls did a lot of traveling! The majority of my embroidering was simple straight stitches and French knots.
One of the classes I am teaching at Art & Soul Virginia Beach is Create a Batik Panel Art Quilt, and I wanted to share this example with you. FYI, Art & Soul has released its 2018 event dates: Portland, OR – Feb 11-18 (registration is open now), Minneapolis, MN – May 2-9, and back again to Virginia Beach, VA - Oct 1-6, 2018. Plan your creative retreat experience now!
For the longest time I could not figure out how to finish these Mahyar beauties... they were not telling me! Asking the advice of Chris Vinh of StitchesnQuilts, we finally decided they should be “dressed in Silks.” Part of my inspiration came from the crazy quilt table runner I was working on using beautiful silk fabrics I had purchased from Pamela Armas (a.k.a. Gypsy Pamela), the owner of Treasures of the Gypsy.
Pamela sells exotic fabrics, trims, beads, ribbon, and more, imported from India and Europe, via booths at most of the major sewing and quilting shows (she is in Houston each year for Quilt Festival. Treasures of the Gypsy doesn’t have a web site, but does have a Facebook page.
These silk fabrics are very tricky to quilt with — I definitely had trouble with the Dupioni silk unraveling.
Lesson learned! I would recommend that if you are working with these fabrics, stablilize them with a lightweight fusible or interfacing before cutting and sewing them. I will do that next time! (Of course this time did not want to stop my progess, so I just kept going.)
Using Spotlite™ by Wonderfil, a 40 wt metallic thread, I stitched on the Dupioni in a straight line. There is so much hand stitching on the panel, and the fabric is so exotic I felt simplified quilting on the borders was called for.
I plan to bind with the dark Turquoise Silk Dupioni after I have used Mistyfuse to prevent unraveling.
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