Jane Ede's Exhibit

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Real Quilt in Fabric

Timeless

 

closeups of quilt

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Name: Jan Ede
From: Pender Island, BC, Canada
Created in: EQ3 & Corel Draw 5
Quilt: Timeless
Finished Size: 74 x 98
Created: summer 98
Jan writes: Made for Thimbleberries challenge, but technical difficulties prevented its completion in time. Muslin fabric is tea dyed to get graduated tones. The rose centers are digitized and then embroidered on my Husqy #1+ embroidery/sewing machine. The crazy quilt type stitches on the fans (which were paper pieced) are combinations from those on my machine and all applique is done by machine.

The design was developed in EQ3. Corel Draw 5 was used to draft the arcs for grandmother's Fan blocks so they could be paper pieced onto, the paper worked great as a stabilizer for all the fancy stitches, too. I used Corel to draw these arcs as they needed to be printed out onto legal size paper, else I would have had to tape sheets together, and there were 28 of them. Corel draw is great in that I can use the contour function to add my seam allowances as needed. I use it a lot when I finalize my quilt plans, to print out sheets of all the different blocks needed, which is the feature lacking in quilting software itself, right now anyway.

The challenge in this quilt came when, after I had come up with a design in EQ3 that I liked, found that the half yard cuts of fabric I had collected would only yield me 3 blocks at most and not four. So then I found I needed to piece the background blocks, this gave me the great diagonals, and added some dimension behind the old fashioned appliques. It was great to be able to play with colors in EQ3, thanks to Barb Vlacks irregular grid idea, with my original design.

e-mail: ede@gulfislands.com