Solids Swap Completed

If you read earlier posts I was a participant in 15 Minutes of Play Solids Challenge. 

This is conclusion of the swap and how we each interpreted the pictures. Different but the same.   Kind of hard to tell from the pictures, but I had a hard time with the size requirement (15" square). I just could not covert a rectangle to a square and get proportions that I liked.  



Ellen's Inspiration

 

My Interpretation with
machine embroidery



Ellen's Interpretation, with great hand embroidery



My Inspiration, a photograph 



Ellen's Interpretation



My Interpretation.

This was a fun exercise and I hope we can do another one.

Solids Swap Challenge Part 2

This is my picture. Totally different from my swap partners choice.

To make this a real challenge I used my color wheel to pick out a color combination to use. Selected a triad of yellow-green, red-orange, and blue-violet. Again I thought I had a large solids collection, after all I have taken 2 Nancy Crow workshops, but could have used a bigger variety. I'm tempted to order 1 yard cuts of the entire Kona Cotton collection. Maybe I should ask for this for my birthday!.



Solids, but not a good picture. They are pretty close to the color wheel.

  I finished the piece. It was entirely improvisational cutting,  (no rulers were used in this piece) which is my favorite way to work. I know I didn't get the proportions correct from the inspiration, but I plan on making more of these.  My husbands comment "That's interesting, you made a fence." No- but it could make a nice placemat. I like it but want to try again with different colors and proportions. And am looking forward to the quilting. Again will use free motion quilting with rayon thread.

Finished but not quilted.

First Inspiration Piece Finished

"Vase of Flowers"
by Vincent van Gogh







I Finished my swap partners inspiration piece. I don't remember who said "When in doubt, add more quilting." but this is exactly what I did. (If you click on the picture to open full screen, you should be able to see the quilting detail)



I have a large box of cotton and rayon decorative threads. I saw this as an opportunity to use some of the rayons which are too fragile for every day quilting. I didn't have any bright red so I used a 30 weight cotton. This made the 50 weight rayon look absolutely puny. So added more to the yellow and orange with 30 weight cotton. The piece is now so heavily quilted that it will almost stand up by itself. But just need to add the binding and label and call it done.



Quilting with 30 weight thread is a real challenge. This piece had some very thick places because of all the very small pieces used for the flowers. It was very tricky to free motion quilt with this type of irregular thickness.

Now on to my inspiration piece which is totally different and should be a lot easier to quilt.

Inspiration Images to Quilt

 I was having a real hard time finding an art work to use as inspiration for a quilt. Finally found a set of 4 photographs from a book titled "Enclosure" by Andy Goldsworthy.

Wool Spread Over Short Sheep-Grazed Grass

4 July 1997

Excuse the pictures- I used my small camera to take pictures of the pages of the book. I hope my swap partner will enjoy the challenge of my inspiration images.