Guitar wall hanging
This is Tilkunviilaaja's entry to the Bloggers' Quilt Festival hosted by Amy's Creative Side. My readers have already seen this wall hanging in November 2012.
Full name: "Pasin Versoul Henry Gold Leaf Custom"
Finished size: ~ 130cm x 170cm
Quilted by: Soile Kivinen from Töölön Tilkkupaja
I created this quilt for Husband, who plays the guitar and loves the Versoul guitars that are custom made by Finnish Kari Nieminen. In other words, I made him a guitar.
(This photo was taken before the quilt was mounted on the wall, and I prefer this picture because it shows pretty much the whole of the quilt and nothing else.)
The quilt is based on a photo that I found on Kari Nieminen's Versoul website. So that I would not infringe on his copyright, I requested and got the permission to use the photo for this purpose.
Soile Kivinen from Töölön Tilkkupaja longarm quilted this using a specially purchased quilting motif with a musical notes and keys pattern.
I developed this technique myself. I first pixelated the photo into as many pixels as I had calculated I could manage, when each pixel equalled a 5cm x 5cm (approximately 2" x 2") fabric square.
I printed out the picture. Then I looked at the colours in the picture and pulled out fabrics that seemed to be the right colours. This was an easy picture: black for the background and a variety of browns ranging from very light to very dark. As my piecing progressed, I discovered a need for a few squares of rather light blue fabric.
This is an example of my cutting zone – the floor.
Then, I drew a pencil line around an area on the printout of 3x3 pixel squares. I looked at that 3x3 square only and picked fabric squares that together created a similar square. Then I sewed these fabric squares into a nine-patch block.
I numbered the 3x3 pixel square on the printout, wrote the number on a small piece of paper and attached the paper on the nine-patch. These were two of the nine-patch blocks that I sewed.
Since I numbered each block, I did not have to worry about keeping them in a certain order. This was important, by the way, because I had to keep this a secret from Husband.
Simple! In theory, at least. This was very much like colour by numbers. Only I had no numbers, I made them up as I went along.
When I had all or pretty much all the blocks done, I sewed the nine-patches together into rows, in the numbered order.
When the rows were done, I put them on the floor in the correct order to check if they would look like a guitar. They did!
I was so relieved. I'd sewn 90+ nine-patches so I was glad that they worked the way I'd figured they would!
Because the background of the guitar was black, I used black strips instead of small squares sewn together, to make up the rest of the picture.
The edges of the picture straightened:
The picture also got a frame:
And the finishing touch from professional longarm quilting.
What a feat it was to sew all of this in thesewing room bedroom without Husband noticing what I was doing. But I managed, and he was really surprised when I handed this wall hanging to him on his birthday!
Thank you Amy for organising the Bloggers' Quilt Festival again this year!
Full name: "Pasin Versoul Henry Gold Leaf Custom"
Finished size: ~ 130cm x 170cm
Quilted by: Soile Kivinen from Töölön Tilkkupaja
I created this quilt for Husband, who plays the guitar and loves the Versoul guitars that are custom made by Finnish Kari Nieminen. In other words, I made him a guitar.
(This photo was taken before the quilt was mounted on the wall, and I prefer this picture because it shows pretty much the whole of the quilt and nothing else.)
The quilt is based on a photo that I found on Kari Nieminen's Versoul website. So that I would not infringe on his copyright, I requested and got the permission to use the photo for this purpose.
Soile Kivinen from Töölön Tilkkupaja longarm quilted this using a specially purchased quilting motif with a musical notes and keys pattern.
I developed this technique myself. I first pixelated the photo into as many pixels as I had calculated I could manage, when each pixel equalled a 5cm x 5cm (approximately 2" x 2") fabric square.
This is an example of my cutting zone – the floor.
Then, I drew a pencil line around an area on the printout of 3x3 pixel squares. I looked at that 3x3 square only and picked fabric squares that together created a similar square. Then I sewed these fabric squares into a nine-patch block.
I numbered the 3x3 pixel square on the printout, wrote the number on a small piece of paper and attached the paper on the nine-patch. These were two of the nine-patch blocks that I sewed.
Since I numbered each block, I did not have to worry about keeping them in a certain order. This was important, by the way, because I had to keep this a secret from Husband.
Simple! In theory, at least. This was very much like colour by numbers. Only I had no numbers, I made them up as I went along.
When I had all or pretty much all the blocks done, I sewed the nine-patches together into rows, in the numbered order.
When the rows were done, I put them on the floor in the correct order to check if they would look like a guitar. They did!
I was so relieved. I'd sewn 90+ nine-patches so I was glad that they worked the way I'd figured they would!
Because the background of the guitar was black, I used black strips instead of small squares sewn together, to make up the rest of the picture.
The edges of the picture straightened:
The picture also got a frame:
And the finishing touch from professional longarm quilting.
What a feat it was to sew all of this in the
Thank you Amy for organising the Bloggers' Quilt Festival again this year!
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