Weekly Art Project Week 7 Pumpkin

Pumpkin.

This quilt was inspired by the season, Halloween and Jean Wells book Intuitive Colour and Design.  While reading the book it occurred to me that her technique would work for a quiltlet about pumpkins or jack-o-lanterns.  I couldn't find any carved pumpkins so went to the grocery and photographed the boxes of pumpkings wainting to be taken home for carving.  This is the picture I selected.

And then after pulling out a bunch of orange fabrics I decided I could add to the challenge by restricting myself to my scrap bucket.  After all I only needed small pieces.  And then I quilted it using my new 6 inch arc ruler on my Janome with the new ruler foot.  It was a fun exercise.

Weekly Art Project Week 6 The Hag

Weekly Art Project.  Week 6

The Hag

This quiltlette was inspired by the season, its Halloween here and it is quite a deal.  All the stores are decorated and selling candy and decorations.  It gets more commercial every year.  

I have a doodle that looks like a ghost (glued into my journal maybe 4 or 5 years ago)  and I drew the face to add to it.  I want to do a quilt of the ghost of sewing rooms past.  Maybe for next halloween!

Once I added the face to the background I couldn't figure our where to go next.  It finally came together slow step by slow step.

Weekly Art Project - Week 5

Fall Colours 4 - Left Behind.

There was a leaf on the tree behind my house all winter last year and there are a few still there this year.  While playing around in my journal to come up with a design it occured to me that I could use quilted lines made with my new rulers as a way to suggest branches.  The brown boarders got added when I thought it was a bit unfinished.  The blue fabric is hand painted.

This is the photo I started with.  I love the tree towards the left with the crocked truck.

Weekly Art Project.  Week 3

This is another interpretation of the same photo.  As the leaves on one of the trees I can see from my kitchen window changed colour they formed an arch against the trees behind them which were still green.  I found it hard to avoid making my piece releastic.  I kept wanting to add leaves instead of concentrating on the arch shape.  I will be interested to hear what you think.

Fall Colours 2.  Applique.

Hand painted and commercial fabric, coloured pencil (to make the sky blue so it would read as sky) machine quilted,  I added a few hand stitches to give more texture accross the lower front piece.  

Weekly art project

I have been inspired by Brenda Gail Smith's post about making a 6 inch quilt weekly as a creative exercise and to have fun. It is to be inspired by ones surroundings.  Here is my first effort for week 2.  It is inspired by the colours outside my kitchen window.  I live in Alberta, Canada.

Fall Colours 1 - Embellishment.

I used a small painted piece of fabric which was a test of Setacolour Paint on cotton poly fabric.  It was paler than on cotton but worked.  As well I used painted cheese cloth and embellishment.by hand and machine.

Summer Inchies

I am working with Inchies again.  Summer Inchies is going to EDQG for the brown bag raffle at the June Banquet.  This event is a fund raiser for the endowment fund at the U of A.

I was very pleased to recieve a third place for Earth; Home of my Homes at the 2016 Focus on Fiber Art Show, My Heritage 

All the firer art pieces are on display at the Enterprisr Square gallery until the end of |June.

I recently took a class at SPQG from Wayne Kollinger of Tuxedo Designs.  Really enjoyed the class.  It was about using traditional blocks made on a 9 patch grid to design other blocks.  It was especially interesting when we combined different blocks.  Here is my favourite design from the 4 blocks I made for the class.  Our first step was to cut our original blocks into 4.  I seem to remember that my original was called Calico Puzzle.