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14 ½ X 16 |
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I frequently make a wallhanging called Cat in the Garden. The pieced border is constructed from 1" squares left over from other sewing projects. |
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Cat in the Garden |
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When I started accumulating Rust-Tex scraps I thought it would be a funny play on words and meanings to add a companion piece to my repertoire called Dog in the Junkyard. When I found this copper-enameled cat at a garage sale, I knew the piecing I had begun for the dog wallhanging would be used for a cat one instead. |
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Stormy Skies fabric |
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It took various parts of five fat eighths of Rust-Tex Stormy Skies fabric to create the correct flow in the border of this wallhanging. The cat is glued on. The green and gray leaves are ironed on, before quilting, using a lightweight t-shirt transfer paper |
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I like that the t-shirt transfer is translucent. This allows the subtle variations of the rust dyed fabric to show through. |
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Deatil of the leaf beads and the gray cable |
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The gray cable in the border is a commercially produced fabric which was cut into very narrow bias strips and machine zig-zagged in place with clear nylon. The orange leaves are plastic beads. |
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