Time to catch up, now that teaching and the art class I was taking are both finished for the year. The collage of cut up images of stones that I did for the art class (last post) led to the fabric collage above, made from cutting up "stonescapes" I did a while ago, appliquéing hand-painted fabric onto linen. (You can see one such piece at the top of this post.) The collage is about 8" x 10." I think this is possibly a good direction to go in, accomplishing more abstraction for stone imagery. I'd like to try more pieces like this, possibly piecing them together into something much larger. But I can't go further on this until I paint some more fabric, one of the things on my list for the summer. I also realize that instead of being limited to the one or two appropriate colors of linen that I can readily find commercially, I can dye the linen myself. So that's on the list too, as well as dyeing cotton yardage in a number of colors to have available for a couple of other projects. But first I'm finishing up a simple patchwork quilt that I started as a side treat while grading papers last month, and I'm basting up a small quilt for a hand-quilting project, as I don't have anything right now for those moments when I just want to sit and hand-quilt. The most daunting summer project is to finish up "Shelter." This will go back up on the design wall before long.
Here are some of the blocks for the patchwork quilt (pattern by HD Designs, "4-Patch Stacked Posies"):
All made from this fabric:
The patchwork blocks are quite beautiful, Penny.
ReplyDeleteThe stone collage has a feeling of a meditation about it - a feeling of being contemplative and seeing images through half-closed eyes: stones, a rocky path, shadows and light.
The original fabric for your posies doesn't appeal to me at all, but I really like the posies so far!
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