Showing posts with label light. Show all posts
Showing posts with label light. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Four-In-Art: Q4: Light: Illumination



Today is the last reveal for Four-In-Art.  Last in all the ways.  Last in the year and last in the five year adventure that I've been pleased and lucky to have been a part of.

I plan on some retrospective posts on the previous years and quilts, but today is all about

Illumination

My mind immediately went in two directions when I saw the challenge for this quarter.  The first was the way the sky was illuminated just after sunset, almost like a reverse rainbow.  And I could have done that and probably been pretty happy with it.  But what I really wanted to do was make an illuminated letter.  Medieval style.


Enter the William Morris R

I searched online for an illuminated R that I liked that was copy right free.  I came across the image below.
It is one in a series of letters that William Morris of England designed in the 1800s.  You should read about him.  He apparently started the Arts and Crafts movement in England.  He was also very interested in illuminated medieval style lettering and printing.

The quilt itself is reverse applique, and to describe all the time and the technique I will devote a maker post to this quilt in the next couple of days.

The gold is a lame, the rest are quilting cottons.  The black is a batik.  The whole thing is quilted with Superior's invisible poly on top and black Aurifil on the bottom.


 Just a fun birdhouse print on the back.  Great for hiding stitches.....  A label is coming, I promise.  The batting is actually a fusible fleece.  I'll go into detail in my maker post.

Finished size: 14"x 15"

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Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Four-in-Art Quarter 1: Light, Shimmer, Lips!



It's reveal day! Quarter one for Four-in-Art.  This year's theme is Light and our first quarter is Shimmer.

There isn't too much to say about this quilt.

I was rather stumped as to what I should do this time around, so I went to the web and searched on Shimmer.  Most things referred to how a shimmer is perceived - brighter and darker - but one image really stood out to me.

Lips! With Glitter!  So I went with something fun.
(as far as I could find, this was an open source picture.  If I find out otherwise, I'll be happy to acknowledge the source)


I do usually try to do something in each art quilt that I've not tried before.  So this one has printing directly onto fabric - I used my color printer and Kona White fabric.
The threads for quilting were primarily Invisifil because they have a nice shine to them.  The lips were outline quilted with a gold metallic - but its rather lost in the glitter.

I also experimented a bit with some trapunto.

The lips were at first somewhat shriveled

So I pumped them up.  Too much!  The whole quilt was distorted.
A little goes a long way with trapunto.

The shimmer did print fairly well - but I thought I'd go all out for the shine - so glitter it was! A golden tone on the lips and a white "diamond" on the borders.
I took this shot in direct sunlight - trying to catch some of the shimmer from the glitter.  You'll have to take my word for it that this quilt really shines.

I'm not terribly thrilled with my attempts at a facing - the corners need some work.

The fairly boring back.  At least I matched my facing to the backing.  I plan on stitching on my label to hide the trapunto openings.  I barely got this quilt finished in time - so no label yet!



This little quilt finished up at 12" x 12".  I think I'm back to the smaller shape this year - after trying bigger last year.

Please check out all my mates playing along.

Bette Ayershttps://www.flickr.com/photos/toot2
Camilla Cathrohttps://faffling.blogspot.com
Elizabeth Eastmondhttp://www.opquilt.com
Janine Greenhttp://www.rainbowhare.com
Nancy Myershttp://www.patchworkbreeze.blogspot.com
Rachel Rileyhttp://www.rachel-thelifeofriley.blogspot.com
Simone Bradfordhttp://quiltalicious.blogspot.com
Catherine                                        knottedcotton