Four-In-Art Q4: Light: Ilumination

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"
You can directly visit my blog *here*

Light in the Darkness

The photo below is the design I created as interpretation on this quarter's reveal sub-theme "light in the darkness."
Please visit my blog (Patchwork Breeze) for more details about this small quilt.

Building a Quilting Passion in Purple

Quilitng is my passion. I have enjoyed the journey over the years learning how to become a better quilter. I began with simple blocks, building upon the lessons learned through books, classes, other quilters, television and my own desires to push the envelope. I began by hand sewing and hand quilting the layers. On small quilts, I do my own machine quilting of layers and the more practice I have, the better I become. 

Purple Passion was the theme and sub-theme for this quarter's challenge and I couldn't think of a better representation than to show the blocks I made and built upon to get where I am today. 

I hope you enjoy viewing all of the interpretations of this theme.

Rain Songs

My Reveal for the theme of Color and sub-theme Music for May 1, 2016 is Rain Song. 

Read about the songs of these raindrops and how I came to make this final project on my blog www.patchworkbreeze.blogspot.com.

A Closer Look into the Stem

Patchwork Breeze.....

My quilted wall hanging measures 20 inches square. 

I worked with a color pallete of various yellows for the sunflower.

The petals are raw edge applique sewn down with various rayon threads. 

The center is a microscopic view of a stem section on fabric, 

which I traced with thread so it popped. 

Visit my blog www.patchworkbreeze.blogspot.com 

for more information about this project. 

Four-In-Art Q1: Color: Microscopic

 Its a new year for our Four-In-Art group for making art quilts.  We've changed up the group a bit and relaxed the size rules and this year the overall theme is Color.

 When I heard the first quarter's theme was microscopic I started searching on the internet. (what did we do without Google?)

And I came across these amazing images by Fabian Oefner.  You can find an interesting interview on *this website* and his own website is www.fabianoefner.com.  The technique he uses is watercolors and something called a ferrofluid.  I highly recommend you go read about it.  There are more images as well. And yes, I even got permission to use the images as inspiration.

And so I give you my inspiration quilt:

Microscopic Color

 This is essentially a whole cloth quilt: quilted then painted with Inktense Pencils.

 A few close up shots.

 It ended up about 13"x10".  The thread painting/drawing is all Black Aurifil Thread.  Two layers of Pellon Soft and Crafty cotton batting.  The fabric is Kona White. The binding is Kona Black.

 The very boring back - and yes, as I write this no label either.  Tomorrow, I promise.

Diatoms

For this year's colour theme and sub theme, Microscopic I decided to represent these unicellular organisms which are so important and colourful. You can read more about this over here.

Volvox

is a freshwater green algae...

and this is my interpretation of it.

I had lots of fun photographing it too!

Susan
PatchworknPlay