a quilter’s journey
Posted in Work in progress on Jun 11th, 2008
…packed with new impressions. Too much to see in only 23 days, but I managed to hit Quilt West in Perth, Australia’s 2nd biggest quilt show. Great experience, fantastic contemproary quilts within a special exhibit ‘Australia Wide’, composed of small, 40 x 40 cm square quilts by OZquilt Network. This alone was worth to go [...]
Posted in Art Quilts, Work in progress on Feb 27th, 2008
25″ x 25″ - finished block: 2 1/2 inches. A quarter of the size of Earth, Wind and Fire. The top of this year’s challenge quilt is pieced. All scraps in hand-dyes or batiks. Now, it’s all about the quilting. Again: Ship? What ship? Wat I wasn’t expecting, I truly enjoy to play with the word or motive, coming [...]
Posted in Work in progress on Jan 31st, 2008
Eureka! All cutting and piecing is done. Looks cool. I’m adding some shading by fabric felt-pen to give it a more 3-dimensional look. Painting on fabric. Now comes the quilting, lots of it. I love this part, to give the piece even more dimension, structure and depth.
Posted in Work in progress on Jan 29th, 2008
Finally, I found the guts to cut into this yummy hand dyed green yard from Judy Robertson. And also the guts to stick it to another gorgeous piece of hand dyes from Frieda Anderson or Laura Wasilowski. That makes about 50 bucks just in fabric. No wonder, my thoughts still are: don’t mess it up!
Posted in Work in progress on Jan 27th, 2008
Just checked the new Hoffman Challenge , I’m not sure whether I like this fabric. As usual, lots of pink! I don’t like pink, that alone makes it into a challenge for me. Maybe there is something more I can do about the blues. For sure, I’ve to see the fabric in real, and I’m almost [...]
Posted in Work in progress on Jan 25th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Art Quilts, Work in progress on Jan 23rd, 2008
Two days of work. Still not even the blocks finished. One-hundred of them, 2 1/2 inches finished. Curved piecing in miniature. It seems to take for ever. The whole quilt won’t exeed 25 x 25 inches, that’s my goal. All fabric is scraps of either commercial batiks or hand dyes. It started with a 5 x [...]
Posted in Work in progress on Jan 21st, 2008
Since weeks, I was busy to clean up my working table and get a clean slate for a new project. Having a cluttered working area is only up to a certain point “creative chaos”. After a hard working period, everything seems to pile up, with no time to stow away gadget, fabrics, tester pieces, design sketches [...]
Posted in Work in progress on Jan 20th, 2008
This seems to be the biggest problem for all kind of artists, quilters are no exception. Today, instead of machine quilting on my Bernina, I started a blog. Well, there could be worse things to kill time, but… Typical, excuses not to do what’s on my list, not to speak of that this quilt needs [...]
Posted in Work in progress on Jan 12th, 2008
…what got me into quilting? - In short words: a artist’s fascination with color, texture and fabric as a very tactile medium.
