I've made lots of quilts over the past several years and I'm satisfied in that department. I've recently been yearning to get back to my weird, odd, more abstract creative side of sewing.
This yardage of girls called Me & My Friend for Tilda Fabrics, designed by Tone Finnanger, caught my attention after being inspired by some face art in a magazine called Uppercase.
I wanted to stitch circles around their faces in a messy manner. My free motion quilting is so appalling, it fit the requirement quite nicely. By the end of this quilting process, my circles were almost becoming too NEAT!
I was only planning to add a few short phrases. It wasn't enough for me. I love words and I love numbers. I used paper ephemera to print to fabric to add words and numbers throughout. Positive, happy words.
This wall quilt began as just a fabric art piece. I soon realized it felt like my life. My mostly messy life that has come full circle to a very happy life again.
3 comments:
A lovely and very special art quilt - you have certainly made that fabric your own. Great finish. xx
Annie, I LOVE this quilt! I too love wording/text on quilts, fabrics, etc. Tilda has some great fabric designs and this is a fun one and made even better by what you did to it. Funny, how after all those circles you quilted they started getting more perfect! Well as the saying goes, "Practice makes perfect" and you certainly got plenty of practice quilting circles, lol! I am not quite sure that I understand how you did the wording though? Could you elaborate a bit more? Did you print on fabric with your printer? How? Thanks!
Annie I love this quilt with your added words it is a perfect expression "self". I like the quilted circles another perfect choice. I am thinking how I might have thought to outline quilt each face and how that would absolutely not elevated a panel to a work of art.
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