Living Colour
Jan 25th, 2008 by Lisa
For months now, I’m dragging around a postcard from my daughter, currently working and traveling for a year in Australia.
It’s a photograph of a beautiful rainforest palm tree canopy. The “gazillion” of shades of green in this picture manifest Living Colour for me. What could be more living than a green forest?!
I made sketches in pencil, already copied it and blew it up at Kinko’s and now it’s on my wall for fabric auditioning. Hand dyes of course, those intensive colors reflect all the different greens the best.
Of course, I was fabric shopping like mad, at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, there was all the goodies on one spot: Just Imagination (Judy Robertson, WA), Artfabric (Frieda Anderson & Laura Wasilowski, IL) and many more from different hand dyers (I’ve to go back in my studio and look at the tags). On my flight home, my luggage had to hold about 2 LB of hand dyes in yummy colors. What a joy to haul them home!
What I also found at the market is a great substitute fusible web: Misty Fuse, now available in Black and UV resistant. Some fusible webs are just not good for lightweight fabric, light colored fabric or silk. Misty Fuse also doesn’t have the sticky substance, which gums up your sewing needle. Added to a fabric, you barely notice there is something on the back, the most “lightweight” possible.
This traveling exhibit will have it’s debut at the APNQ Quiltfest in August 2008, and after the show travel the nation for two years. It needs to be the best material to keep up. At least I think so.
I have to start the fusing and cutting, and I’m really looking forward to the quilting part, which I got to love so much.
Watch the progress on this site.
