PUPPY Portraits!
These are my latest "Esterita Austin" type portrait quilts! PUPPY quilts of my favorite (and only ) puppy... my sister’s puppy…Elizabeth (Lizzie) who lives in Santa Cruz. Lizzie is the RICH little puppy who lives in a condo on the cliffs above Santa Cruz beach. I see her when I go and stay with my sister, Joanna, and sometimes, I get to go and take care of her when Joanna goes on a cruise. When I got back from my last stay, I thought I would make Joanna a quilt of her puppy for her guest room, (where I sleep) and a modern quilt of the puppy for myself to have here at home.
Hence, these PUPPY Portraits!
This is the PUPPY Portrait for my sister's GUEST ROOM at her Santa Cruz beach house. I’ll add another photo of it later of it hanging over the guest bed!
And this is the photograph of Lizzie that I used to make the quilts!
I thought I would show you the making of these quilts. First, you make a pattern over the photograph you want to copy. You want to trace features and mark them D=dark, M=medium, L=light, and VL=very light. Then, you make a pattern on freezer paper which you use to select the fabrics. When you have completed the selection, you move the pieces to the background fabric, here it is black. It is on the actual background fabric that you place the small cuttings that make up the “idea” of hair on the puppy.
It’s all in "Fabric Portraits - with a Twist" a process taught by Esterita Austin. (See esteritaaustin.com) Esterita has a new video out that shows you how to do it yourself called “Dynamic Fabric Art Portraits.”
The next part is the painting of the portrait! She shows how to do this as well in her video and classes.
The final part is making the background fabric into a quilt sandwich with batting and backing and quilting it!
The second PUPPY Portrait!
For ME!
This one is for me! A more modern FUN interpretation of the puppy.
Close-up
That’s all for now! Both done and ready to hang up!
I’ll add the post hanging photographs after my next stay at Joanna’s. Check back!