here on the blog for reasons I mentioned in my previous post, but I had a very productive weekend. Last Thursday was a public holiday here in Germany, so I took the Friday off too and made a long weekend. I spent a large part of each day in the studio and have finished [...]
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Having done a lot of exercises looking at artists who work in series and thinking about my own quilts I like best I realised a few things. I looked at the quilts I feel most happy about to see if there are themes lurking in among them. Two themes I can find without much [...] As if I didn’t have enough things to do, I signed up for a class at QU with Elizabeth Barton on working in a series. I have been wittering on about whether I should develop some of my beginnings of series further, so this seemed like an opportunity too good to miss. The class [...] I’ve finally overcome the inertia that has been paralysing me more or less since I finished my C&G course. (And I’m not even going to say how long ago that was.) I pinned the background fabric that I dyed about 3 weeks ago onto my design wall and started adding pieces of fabric onto [...] My design class has finished at QU this week. I have a design that I am working on, but progress is very slow. I really don’t have the energy at the moment to be in the studio. Also as we now have the house on the market we have to try and keep it [...] One of the useful things I have learnt on the course I’m currently taking at QU is to do a value study before you start to think about a colour scheme. One of the exercises was to draw a simple landscape and then shade it in all the combinations of high, mid and low [...] As I wrote in my last post I am currently taking a class at Quilt University with Elizabeth Barton called Inspired to Design. The first two weeks we have been doing lots of exercises to generate designs. Some of them are ideas I’ve read about before, but never gone as far as actually experimenting [...] Well I gave you the rear view of my latest quilt a couple of weeks ago, so here is the full frontal: I wrote here about part of the design process. You can see some more of the process over on UYE on this post. Part of the inspiration for the different coloured images [...] I’m working on my next challenge piece for Use Your Eyes. The theme is shadows. It didn’t take me long to choose an image to use. It was a photo I took as part of my C&Gs course. It was for an activity to do with the principles of design. I chose this photo [...] I thought I had the quilt top for my final assessment piece finished. I had sewn all the spirals together and filled in the hole with the black circle. It was all pressed and ready to be admired on the design wall, but my eyes kept sliding off the black focal point to an [...] |
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