Here I am ... busy year, forgot to blog since last Project Quilting Season. I hope it won't be so long between posts this year!
Images danced in my brain and a dancer with flowers flowing was where the design decided to go. I searched for dancers and couldn't find an image that matched with my vision. But I did see other images that changed my direction.
Jumping, rather than dancing, images popped up into my design. Now to choose fabrics ... and thread. I found a variegated thread in purple/pink/blue and chose a lovely purple fabric to go with the thread. Auditioning background fabrics brought me to yellow - Complementary Colors! High Contrast!
I made a silhouette of my jumper and stitched it down on the background with batting behind. I then cut away thebatt behind the background - modern machine trapunto.
As long as I was going for high contrast, I decided to play wth positive/negative space. My quilting flows from bottom to top, with lots of different qilting designs, practicing different free motion designs in tiny scale. I didn't forget those flowrrs flowing in my original design, they ended up in the quilting!
I present:
Positive
10"X 12 1/2"
Designed, Appliqued & Quilted in Muskegon MI
The quilt reminds me of one of my daughters, when she is happy, she may not jump, but her mood sure does!
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Images danced in my brain and a dancer with flowers flowing was where the design decided to go. I searched for dancers and couldn't find an image that matched with my vision. But I did see other images that changed my direction.
Jumping, rather than dancing, images popped up into my design. Now to choose fabrics ... and thread. I found a variegated thread in purple/pink/blue and chose a lovely purple fabric to go with the thread. Auditioning background fabrics brought me to yellow - Complementary Colors! High Contrast!
As long as I was going for high contrast, I decided to play wth positive/negative space. My quilting flows from bottom to top, with lots of different qilting designs, practicing different free motion designs in tiny scale. I didn't forget those flowrrs flowing in my original design, they ended up in the quilting!
I present:
Positive
10"X 12 1/2"
Designed, Appliqued & Quilted in Muskegon MI
So, is the purple the positve space and the yellow negative space? Or is the highly quilted yellow the positive and the jumping girl the negative space?
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7 comments:
Gorgeous!!
I LOVE this! And so fun with all your quilting.
Great Quilt ! And I loved your explanation of how this exciting piece came to be :-D Your free-motion quilting is wonderful ! Reminds me of some of the "Zentangle-type" stitches I love to use in my quilting, and some of the patterns Lori Kennedy uses in her tutorials. Really great job !
My jaw dropped when I saw a closer look at this piece! WOW! The quilting! The story! Fantastic! So happy to have you join in the PQ fun again!
This is truly beautiful
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I've looked at some of your last quilts. You have done a great job keeping up with the weekly challenges, and have made some spectacular quilts! I really like this jumping one!
LOVE the joy that you poured into this piece!!
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