Aurifil Artisan Challenge: April 2022
Happy Earth Day!
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For the April Aurifil Artisan challenge, Aurifil teamed up with Robert Kaufman and Karen Nyberg to get a handful of Earth Views fat quarters into all the hands of Aurifil Artisans.
For this challenge, I laser cut a world map from a purchased SVG drawing. I bonded Steam-a-Seam Lite 2 to the fabric layer prior to laser cutting, and then bonded the laser cut applique world map to a background piece. Because I received four fat quarter cuts, I was able to prepare two distinct pieces, each with two fabric combos.
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After laser cutting and bonding the layers together, I loaded up the pieces on my long-arm for computerized quilting. For the first piece, I computerized quilted horizontal lines at 1/4". For the second piece, I had a different design planned via computerized quilting, but I was having a bit of a longarm encoder issue, so I switched to human-driven (me) longarm quilting in a small dense pebble pattern. In both cases, I used Aurifil 50wt thread on my longarm. My longarm doesn't always love 50wt thread depending on the speed at which I'm quilting, but it worked out well here!
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I wanted to finish the pieces a little different since these will hang in two kid rooms. I found perfectly fitting matted frames and mounted both in the frames.
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I'm really happy with how this quick project turned out! The lighter color mapped surprised me in that it looks like a faded paper map. The darker color map reminds me of seeing city light views from an airplane. It was fun to experiment in a couple different ways with the same design.
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Make sure to check out the remaining Earth Views available with this new fabric line, and as always, the wide spectrum of Aurifil thread offerings!