Well, we have spent the last three days wandering thru the Abstract Quilts from the International Quilt Festival.
Let’s start with one from my friend and fellow guild member……
Laura uses a unique process…..she first produces a piece of artwork using alcohol inks. Those designs are professionally printed onto fabric and then she quilts the daylights out of them.
She is a lifetime artist but a fairly new quilter, and she has an abundant career ahead of her!!
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This quilt is one of a series that are inspired by waves. “This quilt shows the joy of being—of singing, floating, dancing, and swimming; of being unchained, unrestricted, unboxed and unconstrained— FREE!
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I love the simplicity of this quilt!!
Much like my Cherrywood Poppy Challenge, this quilt was inspired by her father’s service in WWII.
She used improvisational Log cabin blocks to depict the red petals and black centers.
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Get this….. the top is comprised of 300, QUARTER INCH finished vertical pieced strips!! How in the world did she accomplish that!!
Much of it was straight-line quilted with subtle accents added in the half-circles….
And, look at the ornamentation that she used to put the blocks together…..
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Such a wonderful use of circles in the design!!
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I am so enamored with the curves!!
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She used Drunkard’s Path shapes but freehand cut them with her rotary cutter. Doesn’t that sound interesting?
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This was her first attempt at an improvisational quilt!!….. Oh my!!
I love the muted colors and curvilinear shapes. And the quilting isn’t bad either…..
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This quilt was also a favorite from Quiltcon…probably my favorite there!!
Even though she changed the image of the Eiffel Tower, looking up from an unusual perspective, I still immediately KNEW what it was!!
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The blocks were freehand cut and the composition was improvisationally designed!
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From the artist…. “This is a celebration of the pure joy I feel when immersed in my textiles and colors”.
We can all identify with that!!
Okay….that finishes up the Abstract Quilts.
Come back tomorrow for a review of a new iron that I learned about at Houston and then on Sunday we will make a start on the Hand Quilted division!!
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My favorites in this group are Moongate Garden, Turning a New Leaf, and Pathways. Just gorgeous–the compositions and the quilting.