This post is going to describe the finishing steps for this Bonsai piece. After adding the foliage, I squared up
the inner orange part of the quilt and then added a flange made from cream
silk fabric to the bottom and left borders. After the flange was on, I made a border from the brown table top
fabric and added it to all four sides. I like uneven borders so if it looks like one side of
the border is larger than the other, it is!
Once the borders were attached I did another round of squaring up,
and then sandwiched the top, batting and back. I machine quilted this piece with my HQ Sweet
Sixteen. I tried to follow the pattern on the background fabric that was left
by the tin tile impression. Where I couldn't see the impression I just made up
a pattern to fill in the space. I used pretty tight stitching on the
background. Here is a close up of part of the background.
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| background quilting |
For the pot quilting I stitched a curving pattern
reminiscent of ammonites. It is a pattern I use quite often. In this case it
gave the pot the appearance of a ceramic vase, which is what I was going for. Here
is a close up.
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| pot quilting |
I also did machine quilting around the appliqué pieces, in
the foliage and on the border. The border design was just a fan shape
variation and straight lines.
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| border quilting |
After the machine quilting was done I finished the edges
with a facing,
I named this quilt “Furui Bonsai No Ki”, which means “Old
Bonsai” in Japanese. The Haiku I wrote for the label reads:
"Furui Bonsai No Ki
Old Man of Nature
Silent Garden Observer
Shaped to Perfection"
And with that I will call it a day. After all, it is always
a good day when you finish a quilt!
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