Decorating With Silk
Posted by macroge1176 on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
Home Decorating with my Statler Stitcher
This summer I have been experimenting a lot with different threads and fabrics. After taking many classes at the SUGAR Conference in Columbia Missouri I was emboldened to venture out of the normal quilting on cotton to get “out of the box”. Our have has a large kitchen area with a glass sliding door, large kitchen window and very large dining room windows. I did some basic thinking about how to tie all three together. We recently had ceramic tile work done on walls in my hallway and entrance with soft browns and tans; I knew I wanted to carry that theme over to the windows.
I bought some beautiful silk dupioni which had the colors of our tile, along with a solid chocolate brown silk dupioni for accented linings. Our son-in-law built me 3 wooden cornices for my window as my base. I quilted the silk dupioni over a very dense batting used for decorating and trapunto. This batting is Airtex 16 ounce. When quilted it produces dramatic effects. I quilted using ivory trilobal polyester which has a beautiful sheen to enhance the dupioni. For the design I chose an Oriental floral design which was somewhat open to allow the quilting to be showcased.
I covered my cornice boxes with the silk quilted sections using a special electric staple gun which used small staples which do not show up like traditional guns. For the finishing of areas where the silk met the inside lining of the box I used silk gimp and flat grosgrain twill tape along with the use of my hot glue gun. I had also purchased wide self adhesive hook and loop tape for the purpose of attaching the silk cascade drapes I made for hanging from the inside of the boxes. My drapes were interlined with a muslin hanging loose and lined with the chocolate colored dupioni. The rough edge of the hook and loop tape was applied to the inside of the cornices and the soft side of the hook and loop tape was applied to the front of the drapes.
Prior to hanging the cornices I tied the drapes into the shape I wanted them to hang with using strips of muslin so that they would have soft folds—not sharp folds. Last Sunday James came and hung the cornices. We really love them!
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