This week I'm starting a six-week online class "exploring art quilts" with
Jane LaFazio - the first week we're doing a landscape quilt. The fabrics - including brown, not a colour I have a lot of, for some reason - mostly came from the bring&buy at Saturday's regional day.
First attempt -- note the menacing clouds in the sky: rain clouds -
Second thought - making the clouds into misty hills and adding roads going over the nearer hills -
But while we were out on Sunday morning, drinking in some culture and haunting a few bookshops, I saw a photo that appealed for this project, and scribbled it down to reinterpret in the fabrics on hand -
The edges are ironed under and then stitched down with invisible thread. Some of the areas are machine quilted
and here all the areas are machine quilted.
It needs -- what?
First attempt -- note the menacing clouds in the sky: rain clouds -
Second thought - making the clouds into misty hills and adding roads going over the nearer hills -
But while we were out on Sunday morning, drinking in some culture and haunting a few bookshops, I saw a photo that appealed for this project, and scribbled it down to reinterpret in the fabrics on hand -
The edges are ironed under and then stitched down with invisible thread. Some of the areas are machine quilted
and here all the areas are machine quilted. 
It needs -- what?
I think its great as it is, but you cuold add a focal point in another colour..greenish or orangeyish??
ReplyDeleteSomething that's been lost by turning the edges under? A few grasses breaking the smooth lines, some water movement?
ReplyDeleteIt's very effective and I enjoyed watching you audition the fabrics!
I like it as it is, though perhaps something small and gobsmackingly bright might give it that extra something you are looking for? Dunno what though:}
ReplyDeleteI like it, and loved seeing it come together. You're very clever! However, it looks as thought the water may have been the focal point in the original photo, and it's not in this. I'm not sure what you can do to feature it more, but the two dark blue piecees coming in from the right may be a bit overpowering. Can you "knock them back" somehow?
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