After success creating Segue into Summer, I decided to use it as a loose template for some additional quilts made with hand dyed fabrics.
I’m calling this my “Intersection” series. I plan to use tilted straight lines as the “skeleton” for each one.
First, I pulled out the large scaled hand dyes I wanted to use, plus pretty much everything hand dyed that matched them. What a collection!
Clearly, some editing was called for, so I pared it down somewhat.
And, since I’ve been “learning to like vinegar” (colors, that is,) I added in a few “ugly” colors. I knew they’d add quite a bit of pop, but would need to be used carefully. Can you see them?
These are the two fabrics I expected to be the stars of this piece. I dyed and painted them to go together. I knew I’d need to add additional colors, as well as lights and darks.
I started in my usual fashion: creating a muslin base for my composition. I drew on the perimeter lines, as well as the proposed skeletal lines for the design. I’ve make them darker here, so you can see.
As you can see, I got my two star fabrics in there right away, using them in the largest sections where they would fit.
Right away, I had to redesign the size of the top right piece, to accommodate the fabric size. The line shows the size I intended that shape to be, but the fabric wasn’t large enough, so that design line got moved higher. That would be change #1 of about 100!
I was off and running. I’ll show you LOTS of trial and error in the next post.
Ellen Lindner
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