And so, may I present, efficiency.
Anyway. This quilt is the culmination of different things I've wanted to try and is directly inspired from the following picture taken at the City Museum in St. Louis. You can read about our trip *here*
I really wanted to recreate this floor.
So I did. The light blue is one piece of blue fabric onto which I fused all the fish and tile pieces.
I'm not alone in these artsy endeavors, so please go visit my partners in art.
| Betty Ayers | https://www.flickr.com/photos/toot2 |
| Camilla Cathro | http://faffling.blogspot.co.nz/2016/11/four-in-art-rising-above-blues.html |
| Catherine Chisholm | http://www.knottedcotton.com/2016/11/four-in-art-colour-ive-got-blues_56.html |
| Elizabeth Eastmond | https://occasionalpiece.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/six-ways-to-blue-a-four-in-art-quilt-for-november-2016 |
| Janine Green | http://www.rainbowhare.com |
| Nancy Myers | http://www.patchworkbreeze.blogspot.com |
| Rachel Riley | http://www.rachel-thelifeofriley.blogspot.com |
| Simone Bradford | http://quiltalicious.blogspot.com |
| Susan Snooks | http://patchworknplay.blogspot.com |
Our group blog is http://fourinart.blogspot.com/
Tomorrow I'll come back and talk a little more technically how I put it all together, and some advice on dos and don'ts if you want to try a mosaic quilt yourself.
10 comments:
That's just brilliant - so effective! The netting really adds to the feeling of watery depths and the little flashier fishes bring that shoal to life.
Wonderful! I like your play on the word. Looking forward to read how you constructed this.
Rachel, this is just the best interpretation - I absolutely love it! The back story is delightful and your process and materials ingenuous. Know you must be proud!!
I think I must have missed you talking about starting with a light blue background!! That piece is even more dramatic knowing that pieces were added to make the background texture. Great job Rachel, I love this piece.
This is AWESOME! I love the title (love puns) and think you recreated that tile really well. I've always wanted to try the netting technique, so I'm jealous that you got to do it before I did--it looks really fabulous! On our trip, we keep seeing fish in ceramics around here, so I also have tiles with fish on them on my mind, too. Congratulations on another great finish!
Zowie!!! I love your inspiration and interpretation of the blues. Such a beautiful collection of blue fabrics to use for your school of fish. I bet preparing all your fish and geometric fabric pieces took F O R E V E R!!! What a wonderful project.
This is fantastic! Such a good idea and so cleverly done. I love the design and all the texture :)
I had no idea what you were making when you posted the sneak peak of what looked like shattered glass. It is amazing. The size of it, I think, is important to have it make its statement. And it is blues...my favorite colors.
Such a clever title Rachel! And the whole quilt works beautifully- the fish, the sea and the wavy quilting! Lovely! ( I am sorry to be late in commenting, I have been away and have had limited wifi!)
Very cool! I enjoyed reading both posts about how you made this- lots of ideas percolating now! Well done!
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