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| Art quilt by Sherrie Spangler, copyright 2010. Size: 12"x12" |
Well, we gave it our best shot but it wasn't good enough. My Cosmic Rabbit quilts inspired by Bunners were not on the finalist list for the Quilting Arts 2012 Calendar Contest. The list is on Pokey Bolton's blog today. Congratulations to those who were chosen.
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| Art quilt by Sherrie Spangler, copyright 2010. Size: 12"x12" |
But the good news is that now I can put the quilts on my blog, so here they are. I started with photos of Bunners and used them as the basis for my design. I painted all of the fabric (except the leaves) and used Shiva paint sticks to stencil the swirly patterns on the first quilt.
Then I embroidered lavishly with hand-dyed perle cotton thread from Laura Wasilowski of Artfabrik. Click
here to see her luscious samples. I also added hundreds of beads on the second one to make Bunners sparkle, and used a shisha mirror for his eye in the first quilt.
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| The two quilts in process. |
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| This one is based on Bunners' Easter photo. |
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| Closeup of the stenciled patterns and French knots with Laura's thread. | | |
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I love, love, love them. They are so cute and extremely appealing. Can't imagine that they didn't make the calendar.
ReplyDeleteThank you Judy. Yes, I don't know how they could resist those perky ears.
ReplyDeleteup late, and just read the news...so sorry, bunners and sherrie.
ReplyDeleteThey're so cute!
ReplyDeleteThey are wonderful! Thank you so much for using my thread.
ReplyDeleteEh, what do they know? Either of these would have been a great calendar picture. I rather like the rabbit chilling out. You do great work!
ReplyDeleteHow funny, and how beautiful !
ReplyDeletegreetings from Liesbeth,the Netherlands
Thanks everyone for checking in. Bunners is carrying on as usual, oblivious to the rejection.
ReplyDeleteLovely bunnies and so sunny :-) Bunners is very cute in those glasses :-)
ReplyDeleteRegards from Yulia and rabbit Liza...