Alphabet
Soup
I
love words, the shape of letters and different fonts, so trying to
incorporate them into interesting quilt designs is my challenge and
theme for our Voyage quilts for this year. Using colours which would
not naturally be my first choice is another challenge I have given
myself.
To
start, I picked out a metre of Frieda Anderson's hand dyed fabric
which I had bought some years ago at the Festival of Quilts. It is in
shades of ochre, chestnut, ginger with some brighter yellow and ivory
and hints of grey-blue and charcoal. Then I picked from my stash a
range of fabrics of the same colours, giving myself enough so that I
can work with these fabrics all year, bringing unity to the six
pieces. At least, that is the idea!!
My
friend showed me a photo she had taken in USA of carved wooden
letters from a manual printing press, which gave me the idea for this
piece. I drew out a life size design first and cut a piece of the
inspiration fabric as the base . To that I fused the squares and
rectangles and added the letters using different
techniques.......fusing, outline machining, hand stitching, painting
and beading. You can see me painting in one of the photos.
It
is bound using the original fabric, label and a hanging sleeve on the
back.
It
took me quite a time to complete, but I did enjoy working on it.
Now,
on to the next one!!
Elaine - I love it!
ReplyDeleteInteresting when you say you love words, I find words hard - I love pictures!
Am so looking forward to seeing your next one
Gillian
Elaine this is beautiful! And such fun! I had a great time just appreciating all the different techniques as I looked more closely at different parts it.
ReplyDeleteThis piece is gorgeous! It looks like something you'd see in one of the big art quilt books! The variety in your letters is intriguing. I'll bet this was a fun piece to make!
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