Patchouli Moon Studio: flower stencil quilt

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Stamp On It Blog Hop

Madame Samm of Sew We Quilt came up with this blog hop about creating a postage stamp depicting things that we like. What would you put on a postage stamp if you were designing one about you? My mind was racing with all kinds of ideas and I could have made several different stamps showing the things I like, but of course there is never enough time to do them all. I did manage to create 2 things though. So here they are~

I love flowers so I used a flower stencil and Shiva Paintstiks to create this Postage Stamp Quilt.

I hand embroidered the lettering on this small quilt. The button and rickrack represents the cancellation mark. I chose 13 cents because I was born on the 13th day (of November) and this is 2013.

I added some hand embroidery and a few buttons as well as a little hand quilting.

The border and binding fabric is one of the fat quarter fabrics I won from the Shake Your Pom-Pom Blog Hop. The stamp perforation was a scrapbook plastic template that I traced and cut.

I also love paisley. This piece is made using mostly wool or wool blend felt. The black background was from an old wool suit, the green border was from an old wool garment and the paisley motif bases are wool felt I hand dyed. The tops of each paisley is a different material. I added lots of sequins for some bling too.

Again I used a button and rickrack to represent the cancellation mark. I chose 8 cents because I like the number 8.

I had this pin with the American flag so I used the pin to represent the country where I live.

The large rickrack all around represents the stamp perforations. I added some sequins to the rickrack.

I like the moon and it's part of my blog name too. I also like stars, so I sewed this netting fabric to the paisley felt.

I added a satin fabric on this paisley. I added a lot of sequins and wool circles and embroidery to the piece.

To this paisley I stitched on a piece of star punchinella (also called sequin waste)

This was a happy accident. I was stitching down this sequin when afterward I felt it was actually 2 sequins that were stuck together. So I pulled the top sequin up like a flower.