My Chicago area “Design Your Own Nature Quilt” students brought their artistic courage to class, and made some really great work. (These photos were showing on my computer when photographed. The quality is sometimes low, but you’ll get the idea.)
Sue did a great job with her tree frog. She constructed him with fusible web on some release paper. (See the white outline?) Once she removes that he’ll be a little slimmer.
If I remember correctly Terre had never made an art quilt before. But, didn’t she do a great job? She fully embraced “jagged cutting” the mountain tops, which worked beautifully.
Deborah had never made any sort of quilt before! However, she bravely embraced fusible web, jagged cutting, and abstracted rhododendron flowers. (Don’t they look better than some perfect fussy cut version?)
Deborah’s inspiration photo.
This photo of Susan’s work doesn’t begin to do it justice. She’s working on a rock face, snow with shadows, a lake, and – the missing items – tall evergreen trees. It’s going to be a lovely composition.
Beth took a lot of artistic license with her cactus grouping, which worked really well. She had a pleated scrap that made great texture for one of the plants. See her finished piece in the “Design Your Own Nature” gallery. (Link at bottom of post.)
Cindy also worked on a desert scene. She used mostly solids to capture the austere beauty. She’ll use fusible web to secure the spiky plant. Won’t it be great?
Although Frances’ image was simple in composition, it wasn’t simple to construct. She did an excellent job capturing the subtleties of variation in the sky and snow.
My students always do an awesome job and these were no different. It sure makes it fun for me!
After completing the flowers in my poppy project, it was time to audition fabrics for stems and buds. I also played around with how to best achieve the back lighting on the stems. My plan was to use a white paint pen, in a sort of dotted (fuzzy) effect. That seems to be the right…
As you’ll see, I’m still working in the same series. I’m loving the colors and the motifs. This is the sketch for the current piece. And here’s the background, more or less complete. Or so I thought. But, after studying it for awhile, I decided it was too pastel for my liking. It wasn’t bad,…
Wow! Wait till you see these fabulous results from our dying day. We began to get an idea of what lay ahead as Gabriele unfolded her pieces and hung them up. Aren’t these awesome? Gabriele used colored fabric for some of her dying, like the yellow and blue one below. And check this one out!…
I was really happy with the way my latest brown quilt was coming together. It was time to add in some curves. Yes, that was more interesting. Now what? I knew that massing colors together is often effective. So maybe I could add some dark ones near the bottom circle piece. Yes, something along these…
My son is moving out! On July 4th. His Independence Day! I’m so excited for him. And I also admit to a little joy at the prospect of reclaiming his bedroom for my own purposes! Yahoo! I got to use his room a few years ago and it was so great. Once again, I have…
I just taught two classes in Tavares, FL, and we all had a blast! It didn’t take me long to figure out that this group was a little different from most. In the first class one of the students had just had major dental work. So, she was wearing a proper name tag, but also…
