New Work

This piece is the finished product from my Shirbori class with Jan Myers-Newbury at the Nancy Crow Barn & Studio. It measures 53 x 25.5 inches and is made entirely of pieces that I clamp resisted. I keep pulling out the pole wrapped pieces I made there and toying around with ideas for another quilt top. I think I need to do some more pole wrapping first so i have a larger selection of fabrics to work with. I recently ordered some new colors and more soda ash so nothing stands in my way other than time, which we are all short of.

These two pieces are tops only. They are unquilted & unembellished and made from fabric that I hand dyed and screen printed. I used some design ideas I had done in paper for my city and guilds course as the source inspiration. The one with the circles i plan to highlight with embellishing the small yellow circles in particular so they aren't so washed out. I have some threads picked out and next time there is a lull where i am looking for some handwork these will be ready to go.

I pulled another piece of fabric out to make a third piece and decided it needed more color so I spent a couple of days screening and batching and washing. Next post i'll try and show those results.

I have a bunch of zinnia's flower centers i need to mono print soon for the commission so better get onto that next.

Zinnias

Here is my design wall with all the fabrics I have dyed for the new piece I am preparing to make. See the post from Nov 25th to see the space in which it will hang. The full size design has 5 full flowers and 6 partial flowers. The fabrics on the left are some options for some of the partial flowers.

Here is a sample zinnia. I have stitched most of this just on the top layer. Once I added the batting and the back i stitched the final edges of the flower and leaves through all three layers. The center clearly needs a major revision.


Once i get the flowers attached to the top I think this is how I will quilt in between the flowers- parallel rows. The idea is that the yellow background will fade away and the flowers will sit on the surface. Also, since this picece will be 8.5 feet long at minimum, the less I have to twist and turn the whole thing to machine stitch with batting the easier it will be!