I was working with an exercise from Design Essentials: A Quilter's Guide by Lorraine Tarrence...I lost control of it...it was suppose to be a design of criss-crosses with some pieces floating against the backdrop. The more I cut the smaller and smaller the piece became...its still large turkey platter size but I was going for a very elongated piece almost as tall as me and about 30 inches wide ...here is a close up of what the entire piece should have resembled but with more criss cross bars-
I like the random squares on the backdrop and I think tomorrow's quilt will use this as a design idea. I'm thinking about cutting it in blocks and use in another piece...maybe even recycle for tomorrow's piece.
Along with Thursday's quilt I'll post photos of some delicious hand-painted and dyed sheers that I received from Michelle Verbeeck. It was from the PIF (Pay It Forward) section on the forum at Fiberarts Network.
This is a very cool piece. I love the gray cobblestone looking fabric as a background for those vibrant colors and daggerish strips. Yesterday, I was looking at all this gray and silver metallic paint that I have and thought perhaps my next self-challenge would be to paint some fabric with that stuff. I haven't done anything like that yet.
ReplyDeleteHey, it would be a shame to cut this piece up! It is really intriguing. SAVE THE QUILT!!!
I like the colors on that B/W patterned background.
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