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,…
If you’ve been following my blog you know I’ve been learning about printing fabric with thickened dye. And, of course, I was anxious to use them! Plus, I also wanted to try larger scaled abstract pieces, as well as the idea of using a little bit of “ugly” color. All those goals came together in…
In my last post, I showed you my latest abstract quilt in-progress. Here it is finished: Slightly Unexpected. I added hand stitched and padded black circles to keep the white one company. The rest of the background is pretty densely stitched. I’m happy with this quilt and anxious to try out some more abstract design. Ellen…
Have you done any abstract work? I have and I often find it difficult to come up with the original design. One exercise that’s been floating around via Pat Pauly and others it to randomly cover an index card with fabric scraps and let that become your design. So I tried a few. Some of…
You readers are really great! When I posted my quilt at this stage several of you had good suggestions about how I might improve it. The most common suggestion was to add some orange back in. Something I had considered but rejected. Another tip was to break up the white and to extend the “splashing”…
Well, after painting those (challenging) fabrics I had to figure out what to do with them. Since I wasn’t crazy about some of them, I knew I’d need to cut isolated portions and motifs for use. I had NO IDEA what my composition might look like, but I started cutting out sections and MINDLESSLY sticking…
After doing LOTS of trial and error on my current quilt, I finally decided to cut it into pieces and to reassemble it. My goal was to add some skinny or small pieces of black, to move the black around the piece more, and to add interest to the composition. Of course, I could cut…
Good grief. I’ve about worn out my brain cells trying out different ways to proceed with my current project. I was really thrilled with the background composition but felt like it needed to have some more black added. But nothing that would detract from the black already there. Maybe something loose and organic that would…
I’m working on a new project, inspired by some great new fabrics. The bulk of these were painted by Pat Pauly. I purchased them to use together and they make my mouth water! In the photo above I’ve folded each one to reveal the parts I intend to work with. I think a good dose…
You’ve heard of trunk shows, right? When a group of quilts travels in order to be shown at various quilt guilds, shows, meetings, etc.? Here in Florida, my SAQA co-rep, Karol Kusmaul, had the brilliant idea of doing something like this on a statewide level. We’re calling it a “Roaming Gallery.” (Her idea, which I…