My Life Adventure

Week 3
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January 24, 2008

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MY CREATIVE JOURNEY - Week 4 - part 3

By Kelly

This turned out to be a great week to practice my "Show and Tell". I have finished quite a few projects.

The one I finished last night is for a challenge group I belong to. The challenge was to do a WINTER themed quilt. I had the background for a good while and a slight concept of where I wanted it to go. Only when I actually started working on it did it decide what it REALLY wanted to be. The title therefore changed several times and ended up at ------

"NO TWO ALIKE"

It is a 20"X20" quilt. The background fabric is a hand-dyed gradation of Cerulean Blue. I like to tear the fabric so there are frayed edges. The quilting is in swirls like the winter wind - just like the cording down the middle and the pattern of the binding fabric (which is also the backing fabric). The mesh is indicative of the snow fencing all over the place up here in Minnesota during the winters (although the real stuff is bright orange!). There was a good bit of glittery stuff that came off when I undid the mesh. So, in keeping with my word of the year - SERENDIPITY - I just left it on the quilt, ironed on some MistyFuse and some Angelina all over the background. Then I started adding snowflakes. And on this quilt - there ARE no two alike!!! It was great fun doing all those different snowflakes. Some are stamped, some ARE stamps - real postage ones, some are stencils, sequins, 3D stickers, etc. The largest ones are even suspended on filament and dangle.

So, here it is in all its winter glory -- "No Two Alike"

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