Showing posts with label silk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label silk. Show all posts

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Color Inspiration

Look what arrived today!

It's a fat quarter bundle. I love these fabrics with the graphic triangles and the colors are just beautiful.They're from a line called Prism Elements by Art Gallery Fabrics. I have a Curvalicious project in mind. I'm waiting for some hardware to arrive to do some experimenting.

Are there colors that make your heart sing? I have this piece of Kaffe Fassett fabric that I often use as a focus fabric.

For those of you that aren't quilters, a focus fabric comes in handy for choosing colors for a quilt. Sometimes I use the focus fabric in the quilt and other times, it's just my inspiration. I have used this fabric many times, mostly in small amounts.

I made this quilt about 10 years ago. It's called "Wheels" and was inspired by puddles and bicycle wheels. The background is white silk dupioni and the rings were cut out if cotton.

This quilt is called "Fractured". You can see bits of my favorite fabric need the center if some of the blocks. That's the only cotton. The rest is silk dupioni. I was making liberated log cabin blocks and when I put them in my design wall, they didn't do anything for me. After a few days I took each block and sliced it into uneven quarters. Then I like it!

This is a quilt top that I made for a talk at the Daytona AQS show. You can see the Kaffe fabric crossing in the dark grey fabric. Every single fabric color is represented by the linear curves.

So wasn't I surprised when it dawned on me that the colors in my sneakers were the same colors too!

 

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

New Project

I have always wanted to make a fiber journal. I have a workshop coming up the middle of May and I have decided that I could use this format to demonstrate a lot of my techniques to personalize a quilt. I knew the perfect theme would be my love of cycling. I have been saving stuff for just this opportunity.

My goal is to do a page a day for 7 days and on the 8th day, construct my album. So, come back and visit daily to see each page.

1st pageCycling Album P.3

I used a quote by John F. Kennedy and printed it on fabrics using my computer. Ric rac is framing the quote and sequins were attached with beads. I stitched the “pennies” onto silk dupioni with metallic thread, by hand.