The Finished Silk Quilts

I am ready to share the quilts I made from the dupioni silk.  Each of the wallhangings I created were made from 96 HSTs, sewn from 6 fat quarters.  After experimenting with different layouts, I chose the layout that I felt looked the best with each particular colorway. 

This is the flamingo colorway in a zig zag pattern:

This is the jewelbox colorway in a barn raising pattern:

And this is the Rusty Nail colorway in a Straight Furrow layout:

I really love them all.

I also varied the quilting for all of the quilts.

 The quilting was done with a walking foot, 1/4" on either side of the seams for the rusty nail quilt.

 This was quilted with a free motion foot with these stylized kinda leaves.

And finally the Zig Zag quilt was done with a walking foot mimcing the zig zag pattern.



If you missed my tips for sewing with dupioni, you can find them here: Taming Dupioni Silk 

I have some exciting news concerning these projects that I'll make in the next few days.

New Silk HST

Three is the magic number.  This is my 3rd final colorway of silk HSTs. 

 This colorway reminds me of flamingos.

My next step in this project is to choose my favorite layout of the 3 different colorways.  I have named them Flamingo, Jewelbox and Rusty Nail. 

 I will share the outcome once they are pieced and quilted. 

 See if your favorites match mine.

Design Wall - Gotta Have It

 All of the layouts in this post and the previous post were done on my design wall. If you think they look wonky, it's because they are not sewn together, just placed on my design wall.  A design wall or something resembling it, is such a big help when you are creating your own quilts.  I have quite a large one that spans the length of an entire wall of my studio.  But yours doesn't need to be that large.  I covered three 4'x8' sheets of insulation with light grey felt.  People also use flannel or polar fleece.  Some people also use white or black.  The advantage of using these types of fabric is that cotton or in this case silk, sticks to it.  I also use the sides of mine as a bulletin board/filing cabinet! I pin important papers, design inspiration and pattern templates.  If I filed papers away, I would never find them again.  When I am working on a large project, or run out of space, I do a clean-up.  It looks like I need one soon.

Here's a photo: 

And here's another colorway with silk HSTs.  Keep in mind that I have taken 96 HSTs and just rearranged them.