Created
July 2004. Heidi
creates commission wearables in her Pacific Northwest studio.
Heidi Lund
1821 15th Street
Bremerton, WA
98337
sewfiber@aol.com
206.399.4262
Heidi won the Grand Prize - Professional Division for the 2004 Sulky Challenge for her 27" x 30" wall hanging entitled "Encrusted Blueberry's".
Created
July 2004.
In 1996, just a few years after I started to learn to quilt, I purchased an inspirational book called “The Art of Annemieke Mein”. Though my three dimensional blueberries are purely fictional they are inspired by Annemieke Mein’s attention to detail.
Quilt is completed with the Artist’s own hand dyed pima cotton, which was stabilized with KK2000 and Totally Stable. It features hours of free motion embroidery, dupioni silk blueberries, eyelash fibers, hand dyed cotton yarn and iridescent cord. The vast leaves are created with Sulky thread, organdy, dupioni silk and tulle. There is over 9000 yards of Sulky threads used in this piece and it’s embellished with satin ribbon, and many, many beads, that were applied by hand.
Heidi Lund
Blueberry Chrysalis
Heidi's small format art quilt "Blueberry Chrysalis" has been selected out of 28 finalists to appear in the 2005 Quilting Arts Calendar. She does not know which month, yet.
"The quilt started out to be moth
cocoons (chrysalis), but when I got the slides back and looked at them on my
lightbox.... they looked like blueberries!"
Heidi Lund
Frosted Moth Chrysalis
January, 2004
Completed in January 2004 as part of a color crayon challenge for my local Kitsap Quilt Guild. I drew the color "white" out of a sealed box and challenge myself to make an all white quilt. It is 14.5"x15.5" and is made from white Kona cotton, freeform machine quilted to a cotton batting and a wool batting. The cocoon's are made from silk dupioni and are embellished with fuzzy fibers and decorative thread. I have used braids, silk and satin ribbon, leaves have been made of thread and organdy as well as dupioni and the entire quilt is embellished with several hundred beads.
This quilt is the first place winner for the Kitsap Quilter's Challenge and is owned by Carol Roi Olsen of Bainbridge Island. It is currently on tour at a couple of juried shows. It has been inspired by the very first book that I purchased at a PNNAG general meeting annual book sale: "The Art of Annemieke Mein".
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Frosted Moth Chrysalis Detail
My Underwater Dreams II
After "My Underwater Dreams I" was published in Quilting Arts 2004 calendar and subsequently sold, I had to create a number II in the series.
Inspired by all the time I have spent under the ocean, this small quilt is a macro view underwater. It is currently touring in the 2003-2004 Small Wonders exhibit sponsored by Quilt's Inc. The quilt background has been crinkled and has hours of free-motion quilting. It is embellished with hand embroidery, fuzzy fibers, silk dupioni kelp fronds, 3-D thread seaweed and sponges, precious stones, shells, buttons, charms, beads and sequins.
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Underwater Dreams II Detail
Treasures of an Enchanted Forest
This was created for the 2003-2004 Bernina Fashion Show "Fantasy" and is now touring Internationally.
Fabrics for the coat have been scrunched and textured and then cut up and sewn back together. The coat is embellished with 8 king size spools of Sulky's variegated rayon thread, Krienik braids, buttons, sequins, beads, crystals and over 800 3-dimensional leaves. Leaves are created from hand carded wool and mohair, sparkle organdy, metallic taffeta, silk and cotton with fiber etch. Scraps from the coat were used to create the hat. The short, off the shoulder, Lucia velvet shift dress is hand dyed by Heidi and the necklace and bracelet are created with hundreds of beads and crystals.
This coat, velvet dress, hat, necklace and bracelet have 418 hours involved to create them.
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Jacket, Summer 2001
"Northwest Autumn Breezes"
Featuring hand-carded wool and mohair felted leaves by Heidi
Lund
This jacket won 1st Place in the International Sulky
2001 Challenge, Professional
Wearables category
All of the decorative thread is from
Sulky® of America
.
The pattern is "
Jakarta
" from Purrfection Artistic Wearables
.
This jacket is made of Kona Black Pimatex cotton that has been painted with Lumiere acrylics in metallic copper, gold, umber, silver and green. The fabric has been heat set as well as machine washed and dried. The entire jacket is embellished with over 7750 yards of Sulky Thread in some form or other. Heidi specifically used lots of 30wt Rayon and 2 different Ultra twists for dimension. There is a hint of Sulky Sliver running through the design to catches your eye. The jacket pieces were stabilized with Sulky KK2000 Temporary Spray Adhesive, Totally Stable and Tear Easy.
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The 2001 Hoffman challenge fabric was # 6091 Antique Black/Gold. It's the black and gold Butterfly Print. Very eastern inspired and quite luxurious. The vest used is a tunic style Butterick pattern with side slits. This vest was strip pieced and machine quilted to muslin with stippling. Before assembling the vest I added chenille and metallic fibers for vines, leaves of cotton fabrics, prismatic foil and ultra suede. Over 100 flowers made from coordinating fabrics then layered with charms, buttons, beads and wonderful things! This vest is traveling through October of 2002 internationally with different parts of the Hoffman Challenge exhibit whether it be Dolls, Quilts or Wearables.
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This vest is pieced with 100% cotton, which includes the #6091 Antique Black/Gold Hoffman Challenge Fabric, my own metallic painted fabric, stenciled fabric and a few commercial prints. It is lined with Hang Loose Anti-Static polyester, which has been stamped with butterflies using Lumiere Acrylic.
Surface Design on this vest includes machine thread play, metallic painted fabric, fibers, buttons, ultra suede, prismatic foil, beads, charms and 3-D origami flowers and leaves in different sizes. The jacket pieces were stabilized with Sulky KK2000 Temporary Spray Adhesive. Threads include Sulky Rayons and Metallic as well as Madera Rayon. Couched Fibers are chenille, metallic and hand dyed Avanti cotton.
The is an original design using Butterick #4020.
This vest won 2nd
prize in the International Sulky 2000 Challenge.
All of the decorative thread is from
Sulky® of America
.
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The sea anemones are made from baby yoyos embellished with Sulky threads. Seaweed is made by snadwiching layers of tulle between layers of Sulky Solvy, and then rinsing the stabilizer away with water. |
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Left to right: two-tone sea sponging & stenciling; sea sponging & q-tip; apply acrylics to wet shoes/let dry/airbrush over cedar. |
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