Felted Art Quilt

Cara Gulati designs a felted art quilt as part of her seascape challenge quilt.

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Being an art quilt fan, Cara Gulati had a blast with this quilt challenge. She decided she would use the photo to create design lines for a new art block! Here is the scoop:

Materials and Tools:

fabrics
quilting supplies
fusible interfacing
ribbon
template material

Figure A

Steps:

1. Choose a landscape photo, in this instance, the landscape challenge digital photograph.

2. Put a piece of clear plastic on top of the photo and draw straight lines using objects in the photo as a reference guide.

3. Transfer these lines to paper and enlarge the block to desired size.

Figure D

4. Make templates from the enlarged block. Include seam allowances.

5. Choose fun fabrics, cut out blocks and sew together to achieve desired block combinations. Tip: This is a great project for taking advantage of your fabric stash.

Figure E

6. You have a free form art quilt layout that you designed.

Figure F

Prepare two felting fabrics for this art quilt with these new felting techniques.

Back a piece of woven cotton fabric with a lightweight woven fusible interfacing.
Place ribbon or silk roving on top of a sandwich (blend) of cotton fabric and fusible interfacing.
Needle punch or use the felting attachment on your machine (or a machine made just for felting) to pound the ribbon or silk roving into the cotton fabric blend.

Tip: Cara Gulati quilts heavily over the tops of these fabrics to secure the ribbons/silk roving in place as they cannot withstand a lot of handling.