Resist Painted Wallhanging for #ProjectQuilting Season 15.2

I try to participate in Project Quilting every year. It’s a great excuse to try a new technique and play.

This week’s challenge is “Sky Color (not blue). We’re supposed to create a quilted item within one week start to finish.

I decided to try a resist technique I saw demonstrated by Quilter Julie B. Booth on Quilting Arts TV (Episode 1703 “You can’t resist this”). She demonstrated how to use ordinary liquid dishwashing soap as a resist on fabric.

Here’s a youtube Quilting Arts TV preview… see it on the end:

Intro to the episode featuring her technique

Since she sells her instructions online, I won’t go into detal here. But I painted the gel-like liquid on my white cotton fabric, let it dry, and then painted over it with blue, red, yelliw, grey, paint, After washing and ironing it, this is what I ended up with:

After resist & painting on white cotton fabric

I’m thrilled that it turned out for this week’s challenge, looking somewhat like a mosaic sunset, with just a little blue. Perfect.

It needed some machine free-hand quilting, so I got our every Aurifil thread I had in similar colors and set up my Bernina.

I love to crank up the music and “get in the zone” and just let the fabric tell me how to quilt it.

Here’s a close-up…

I added triangle corners to all four corners of the back, so by slipping each end of a wooden dowel cut to size into 2 of them you can hang it up on the wall in any direction.

Hanging triangle on all four corners of the back.

So here’s the finished wall hanging…

I choose to hang it vertically.

And

It turned out approximately 14 x 18-1/2”

It was a fun experiment I’d like to try again. To see all the quilted items for this week’s challenge, go to the Project Quilting Season 15.2 website and scroll to the bottom.

Until next time, Happy Quilting!

Jane, Mulberry Patch Quilts