Working on an Abstract Quilt

In an earlier post, I showed you a quick exercise for generating abstract designs. After making several “postcard collages” I decided to use one of them to create a quilt.

This was the original collage.

Working on an abstract quilt. Ellen Lindner, AdventureQuilter.com/blog

I cropped it and got this. I think it’s much more dramatic skinny like this.

Working on an abstract quilt. Ellen Lindner, AdventureQuilter.com/blog

I played with it just a little bit on the computer and got this as my sketch.

Working on an abstract quilt. Ellen Lindner, AdventureQuilter.com/blog

But, oops, I had lost the skinny drama, so I had to change that back.

 Next, I pulled out hand dyed fabrics, and others, to see if I had what I needed. Yes, I thought I could make it work.

Working on an abstract quilt. Ellen Lindner, AdventureQuilter.com/blog

I placed a piece of muslin on my design wall and drew out my planned size. Then, I started working on the large black shapes. I figured they were the keys to the whole design, so I needed to get them in place first. Since I work in raw edge collage it’s a simple matter to cut the fabrics to shape and place them.

Working on an abstract quilt. Ellen Lindner, AdventureQuilter.com/blog

Later fabrics were tucked under the adjacent black.

Working on an abstract quilt. Ellen Lindner, AdventureQuilter.com/blog

Since all the designing had been done beforehand, and because I was working with fairly large shapes, it came together pretty quickly.

Working on an abstract quilt. Ellen Lindner, AdventureQuilter.com/blog

How do you like my visual cropping tool, above? That’s right, it’s toilet paper.

Working on an abstract quilt. Ellen Lindner, AdventureQuilter.com/blog

At this point, it was ready for a light gluing and then on to stitching. I’ll show you how I tackled that in the next post.

Ellen Lindner
P.S. What construction tricks do you have?

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