Series no 1: black and white

“Where are the colors”

Where I live is the biggest tulip area of The Netherlands. Every spring we are surrounded by hundreds of tulip fields. I am always impressed by the huge variety of colors. I want to make a series of quilts, inspired on tulips.

Our first challenge is in black and white, so no colors at all. I want to use only white fabric and add the black with different materials.

The leaves are painted with black textile paint on plain white cotton fabric. I doubled the fabric with cotton batting. I stitched the leaves with rayon thread and a walking foot.

To make the tulips I also used white fabric with batting. I stitched the tulips in three sizes. After stitching, I cut them out and added a little shade with a black paintstick. The tulips are attached to the background by hand, only at the bottom of the tulip to create a three dimensional flower.

There is a little free motion quilting of the background between the leaves.

The quilt is faced binded.

Black and white, tulips, white tulips, three dimensional, three dimensional flower,

paint sticks, painted background, textile paint, rayon thread, walking foot, free

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