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| The photos of this art quilt were sent in by Karyn Meyreles. Karyn
is a member of American Sewing Guild, Gold Country Chapter (Placerville,
CA). She made this wall hanging for a Denim Challenge in her guild. Karyn
has not only made a remarkable project, but also sent in an interesting
story about how she was working on it. Here is what she writes: |
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"First, I got a bunch of old jeans from a guild member’s husband. As
I pondered about an idea for my denim challenge project all I could think
about was the jeans and how hard someone must have worked while wearing
them and if only some jeans could talk! Imagine what they have been around
to see since they are so durable and don’t seem to wear out. One
pair could have seen a lot!
Out of that thinking came the idea for my wall hanging project entitled
“ Jeans – as Durable as our Progressive Dreams”. I just figured jeans
have been around to ride on horses, sit upon a covered wagon, catch a ride
in a horseless carriage, lean against a rusty old car, build and ride along
the rails of a locomotive and maybe even ride in a lunar car on the moon;
with always the same durability as the dreams it took to create all these
possibilities. So, I decided to take all these old jeans to create
each of these different images and collage them together. I went in search
of already digitized designs that would convey my message that could be
used with some work I had already done. |
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| " The horses, covered wagon, carriage car, locomotive and lunar car
are all stitched using the embroidery unit on my home sewing machine with
the digitized designs I purchased from various companies. There are over
240,000 stitches in just these designs alone. The sunset and rusted
car door are designs that I personally free motion stitched on my sewing
machine using a technique I learned in a class with Carol Shinn, a photo
realist embroidery artist. One article written about her states “
Carol’s embroideries are a study in the complex and minute details it is
possible to render in thread”. I learned great techniques in
this class and machine-stitched these two designs on separate pieces of
old jeans in the class. The rusted out car is actually on two different
pieces of jeans with one piece of the car showing through a hole in the
jeans. The sunset is stitched in three sections on the front of jeans
with one part on the inner portion of the front pocket and the other two
parts on each side of the front zipper. I can’t even begin to tell you
how many stitches are these two designs." |
| "For the Guild's denim challenge I thought I should take the two finished
free motion designs and expand on it to show how jeans have been around
for a long time and no doubt involved in all our dreams. I had learned
how to free motion stitch embroidered items to have it look just like a
photo image; I wanted to see how the embroidery done on an embroidery machine
with digitized designs would compare while at the same time conveying a
message. The digitized designs I chose for the wall hanging express the
progress of our dreams as best I could imagine. I felt proud when I realized
that my work in class was as good as any digitized design and I had done
it with free motion thread play. I joined all the pieces of jeans
with the varied designs depicting the progress so you could view them while
having visions of jeans as part of that progress. I felt the worn nature
of the jeans expressed how it must have been difficult to accomplish some
of these dreams and hard work must have prevailed. Jeans are just
as durable as we are in making our dreams come true." |
| "This wall hanging proudly hangs on my living room wall here in Rancho
Murieta, California (outside of Sacramento) where I reside. Everyone
who sees this wall hanging just marvels at the concept that it promotes
and the stitching involved. I truly love how it turned out!" |
| We love it too! Thank you for sharing! |
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