STAYIN' ALIVE STARS QUILT 

My latest fulled wool piece (which appeared on the Simply Quilts episode) is shown to the left.  I call this piece "Stayin' Alive Stars" because I was thinking about that famous still photo of John Travolta in the movie, "Stayin' Alive" where he's in a dance pose with one foot pointing down and one hand pointing up.  As you can tell from the quilt, I couldn't quite remember whether he was pointing up with his left or right hand.

All the wools in this piece are hand dyed wools done in gradation shades.  The center of each star is machine embroidered using my Deco 650.  The embroidery design card I used was the Continuous Line Quilting designs by Keryn Emmerson (#155).  The blocks were put together using invisible thread then the top was long arm machine quilted by Diane Lecheler of Designs by Diane.  She had only a week to learn how to quilt on fulled wool before I had to fly out for the filming but, as you can see, she did a wonderful job.  She said the only adjustment she had to make was she had to print out the quilting designs on regular printer paper as the thinner paper shredded against the wool.

For more fulled wool quilts, please click here.

Because you get unusual shapes when you full from old clothing, crazy piecing is a natural for fulled wool quilts. 

Click here to  take a look at some crazy piecing using fulled wool.