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"Wolly Afro II" by Unicia Buster 2014
Textile art, Hand and machine stitched 100% cotton, SOLD
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| "Wolly Afro" by Unicia Buster 2011 Textile art, Hand and machine stitched 100% cotton, SOLD |
This is "Woolly Afro II" from start to finish:
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| I looked for my models (from the internet of course). |
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| Another fabulous Google find. |
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| This model was from real life - my good friend Shanaye willingly posed for me :). |
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| I selected my color palette. |
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| I made the pattern and cut it out of the fabric. |
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| Pinned to background fabric to prepare for hand applique. |
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| Stitched the face prematurely but I couldn't wait to see how it would look. |
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| Let the stitching begin! |
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| Trying out the circles for hair. Didn't particularly care for the colors chosen so I auditioned other colors and also made the hair fuller (below). |
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| Much better hair. |
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| Cut out all the hair for the lamb. |
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| A lot of stitching to do. |
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| You can see my handy-work close-up. |
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| Still a long ways to go but progress is made. |
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| It's coming along, thankfully. |
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| Lot was done. Border is on, sheep was added on. I added painted details to faces with fabric paint and a few abstract flowers. All of the applique is done and the quilt sandwich was put together using free-motion quilting on the sewing machine. |
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| Close-up of lamb. |
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| Detail of some of the free-motion quilting on background. |
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| Some pictures taken in direct sunlight. You can see the free-motion quilting better. The binding is on at this point. |
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| Detail of quilting. |
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| Detail of quilting. |
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| Detail of quilting. |
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| Detail of quilting. |
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| I thought I was done until I showed it to my mom and a friend. They offered some suggestions to make the sheep look better, especially the pointed hump she got going on. |
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| I fixed the hump and added detail to her face. |
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| Added my signature to lady's arm and a bit more stitches to the wool on the lamb. |
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| "Woolly Afro II" by Unicia Buster Finally, all finished. Started in July 2013. Finished in January 2014. This was a really fun project and I plan to do more. None of my quilts before this used free-motion quilting (a technique I learned at a workshop back in November). I also learned how to properly bind a quilt using YouTube. This one is definitely far better than "Woolly Afro" which I did January 2011. Expecting even greater things in the year ahead. |
