Day at Loon Lake Quilt is Complete!

 

Day at Loon Lake Quilt

 

Complete with the label in the lower right corner.  This style of label is easily readable by flipping up the corner.

 

 

On the label, I made note of the wool batting -- in case anyone int he future thinks they want to wash it. 

I have to say that I was really impressed with this Quilter's Dream Wool Batt.  I am looking forward to working with it again - on a bed quilt.

 

The pattern is by Nancy Davis Murty for Bee Creative Studios. 

This quilt has been at least 15 years in the making, so the pattern will be hard to find.

Here's a close-up of each block (for the record):

 

Quilting from the back side.

Other posts about this quilt:

Quilting Deep Water on the Loon Lake Quilt (2022)

Quilting the Elements: Air and Water (2022)

Next Steps on The Loon Lake Quilt (2022)

A Few Small Repairs on the Loon Lake Quilt: Replacing the Misfit Log (2021)

Day at Loon Lake Quilt Top is Complete! (2020)

Day at the Lake Quilt is coming along -Top Third is Done - Turtle and Perch Blocks Done (2020)

Progress on The Loon Lake Quilt (2017)

Thread Painting at Lake Lucerne Quilt Camp 2016 : Part 2 (2016)

Progress on Day at Loon Lake Quilt (2016)

Resurrection of Day at Loon Lake Quilt (2016)

A Few Small Repairs on the Loon Lake Quilt: Replacing the Misfit Log

Ah!  Much better!

What did I do with my "extra" time this weekend not having to work on Farmer's Wife blocks?  I knew It would take me a while to quilt up the flowers on the Hollyhock Quilt, but when I finished that job mid Sunday afternoon, I still had time ...

 

The Misfit Log 

So my thoughts turned to this job that's been bothering me for years, and may have contributed to taking so long to finish this quilt top.   The piece of fabric included in the kit for the log just never set right with me, never worked ---  Too warm and brown for the deep bottom of the lake.   And it's the wrong texture.   So when I got the barn wood fabric recently, there was enough left over that I could replace / hide / cover over that odd brown curly mis-matched log, with something that truly looked like it had been under water for a while.  

It was quite a job.  First I had to cut out a new log shape onto the Wonder Under fusible, then fuse it to the new fabric, and cut to the proper shape.   Then, on the quilt itself, I had to unsew / release all the appliques that were on top of the old log.  After ripping out the stitching, it wasn't that hard to lift the freshwater grasses / seaweed.  The trickiest part was the fish fin at the top of the log.  I had to literally cut that part out, and re-fuse it to the new log once it was in place.   Don't worry-- The fish was never harmed in any way!

Then the task of fusing it down again, and re-stitching.  It didn't take as long as it could have, and wasn't such the headache I thought it would be.  I am much happier with this part of the quilt now, but it makes the other brown parts of the log stand out as not quite fitting.  But this is much more subtle, and I think I can live with what's left there now.  Whew!

 

 

Practicing freemotion wood grain designs for the Hollyhock Quilt was also the prompt that made me think of the log.  I did not end up using this pattern on the log above.  Instead, I followed the patterning in the fabric to a good effect.  ;-) 

 

 

Green Darner Dragonfly

I also took the time to add the 2 applique butterflies to the top of the quilt.  I was thinking I would wait to add those until it had been quilted, but I also did not want to lose them between now and that nebulous time in the future.   So they are now part of the quilt, too.

I will have to plan another day for making quilt sandwiches ...

Golden Dreams and a Dragonfly

It's been a while since I posted a photograph worked up with layers in PSE.  And I thought it was about time I actually DID something with these textures I've been creating ...  Hence this Golden Dreams Dragonfly was born on a rainy Saturday afternoon!

Layer 1)  I started with one of the gelatine print textures from last week.
I call this one Golden Dreams.   I doctored up the upper right corner before I set to work with the rest. 
Layer 2) Swirling Snowflake Brush by Linda Nelson at Pixel Berry Pie  in the corners - Overlay Blend Mode at  67% opacity
Layer 3) Dragonfly Brush (my own!) - Soft Light 100%

Although there are some free dragonfly brushes out there, they were too small to fill the space I needed, so I made my own from this picture of a real life specimen who happened into my vicinity a few years ago.   I'm really happy with the way it turned out!

Layer 4) Copy Layer 3 - Soft Light 80%
Layer 5)  Obsidian Dawn Swirl Brushes in the corners - Soft Light 100% (added last)
Layer 6) Text : Dream- Change-Joy - Zapfino Font - Overlay 65%
I looked up the symbolic meaning of Dragonfly, and these were some of the key ideas.  How's that for a positive spin on change?  After some input from a thoughtful friend in Sweden, I changed the words a bit to the modified version at the top of this post.  The original words were : Dream, Joy, Change.  I thought Dream-Imagine-Create elevated this piece even higher.   Here's the first version :

Layer 7) Color Fill Frame (a la Kim Klassen) - black - Soft Light 65%

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