Quilting Your Feelings
Unexpected news, sudden events, and loss are hard to deal with and so I channel my feelings into quilting projects.This piece is called ‘Blindsided’ and expresses my response to being the last to find out a very dear person was moving away. In this design I explore the destruction of calm, the ripples and rips in the fabric of life that happen and hurt. I used colored pencil to create the weightless bubbles and Derwent InkTense pencils to shade areas. I used raw edges in the rips, and turned edge appliqué on the outer stable rim of the circle. Stable, stationary borders box in the central chaos and make a weighted base to hold the design steady. The complementary limited palette of blue and orange creates tension and impact, as does the explosive batik fabric and tiny ditsy fabric. Designed to be a wall-hung art quilt, the finished size is 30 x 40. While art quilting is about stories, the story doesn’t have to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Some stories ...