A couple of months ago I ran across a blog called Art With a Needle by Kathleen Loomis. I have no memory of what the catalyst was that took me to this blog, but I’m glad I found my way there.
Kathleen generously shares some of her quilting techniques and her Quilt Date for April post was very intriguing. I knew at some point I wanted to give the technique a try. And at some point it dawned on me that I should try this technique on my purple-yellow quilt.
I started my experiment by piecing together several different yellow fabrics. The resulting yellow base was approximately 24 inches square. I started big because I knew it would shrink with each purple strip added. By the time I deemed there were enough thin purple strips criss-crossing over the piece, it was down to around 15 to 17 inches square.
I then took several purple fabrics and cut varying widths of strips and pieced them together. Next I placed the purple strip piece on top of the yellow piece and started slicing randomly through both with my rotary cutter.
I rearranged the slices, pieced them together and then quilted it. The edge is finished with couched eyelash yarns.
8 comments:
Wow!! I like it. So simple, yet so complex.
I started reading Kathleen's blog a few months ago also, we probably followed the same thread. Your experiment is very successful, the purple strips are really interesting to look at.
Love the title! I love how the purple skinny bits add so much movement to this piece. I may have been the one who turned you on to Kathleen's blog. I think I mentioned it in mine some time ago.
Terri, was so surprised to see that this was your piece! It is all about line, which I love. The purples with those warm yellows seem like rich, velvety night time with fractured beams of light shining upward. This gives me a real feeling of light and darkness. And I think I need to check out the blog you referenced. The skinny strips are so expressive!
What a great, strong linear design and a fun technique. The "cracks" show up really beautifully. I also like that we have seen you used pieced fields of fabrics in different ways -- this feels like another step in that process.
Lovely! Very different from what you usually do, but it's nice.
I like the contrast between teh skinny cracks and the large background strips. It's a nice color study too. Kudos for trying new techniques -- it will be interesting to see if this pops up in your future work (maybe with the collage technique you've been working with lately).
Those teeny tiny strips are so interesting. I love how they really do look like cracks. The quilting emphasizes them really well, too.
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