self portret Marloes

Having just made a selfportret this summer for another group I was not jumping to make another one. But then I thought of making the same thing different. So I used the same photograph and used a different technique. And I might just make more of the same ;-)

I forgot to make pictures while doing this, as it came down to a very much last minute effort. I cut the potograph in several pieces, and then cut those pieces from foam. I used these foam pieces to make a print using fabric paint. The pink surroundings were just painted with a brush.

The quilting was kept simple (but I do have to do something with my machine as the thread broke several times, not funny when you are in a hurry, actually never funny)

Wishing you all the best for next year!!

I am descended from

"I am descended from women who sewed and knit drew painted photographed...I pass on the you in me to my grandchildren with love...Thank you grandmothers, mother and aunts." To show who I am in a self portrait I needed to show all the women in my family who came before me, as I see myself as being made up of parts of them. Both of my grandmothers (maternal and paternal) and my paternal aunts sewed beautiful clothing including the dresses you see in the older photographs. My mother and my maternal aunts (lower left corner) knit beautiful suits, dresses and sweaters for themselves and for their families. My youngest (m) aunt (in upper right corner) owned a photography store and took all the pictures in our families since before I was born. It is obvious to me

that I inherited their love of art and craft. And in turn I pass this love on to my grandchildren as you see in the final photo (lower right hand corner) as I sit with my youngest grand daughter who is drawing a picture.

The small quilt was made by transferring old photographs to silk and printing them on my HP printer in black and white. I then sewed them on to linen fabric; adding lace, buttons and beads all in white. And a hanging sleeve. I wrote on the front using my free motion sewing foot in black thread around the outside border of the quilt the words you see at the top of this post. And I stitched in black outlining the photos to make them stand out.

The best part of making this self portrait was showing it to my six year old grand daughter after it was finished. And explaining it to her, introducing her to her descendants, her great great grandmothers, great great aunts, great grandmother, after whom she was named and reminding her of what she and I love to do in art together and how this all came to us from these other women in our family.

And she got it!

jane self portrait

After a little trouble with the solvy, which I have shown the finished and not yet resolved or dissolved piece. I have made another self portrait with a close up from the original picture.

The first piece, but shown 2nd, and I cannot move it! is a whole body nude style, line only with minimal detail, needless to say I should have reversed the picture and put the solvy on the back. Which is exactly what I did with the second piece.

I am an orange girl along with lots of green, the nude is an orange/pink background with purple stitching, the second has a crazy style batik patchwork background heavily quilted with my favourite quilting designs- a bit like me - crazy, with an orange stitched outline. Better in some lights than others - as am I.

A lesson learnt -start early and don't believe that all products will do as they instructions say. I had fun with this challenge and will take it further time permitting, and motivation, when my sewing room is back in full swing after a paint.

Off to bed, its New Years Eve and I am at work at 7am, as I was this morning after a very busy late night at work again, one more day till holidays!!!!

Looking forward to all the selfs popping up on my screen

Me x 4

This is my selfportrait quiltlet for this challenge:

I designed the paperpiecing for this portraits myself using a programme called "quilt assistant". The portret gets more detailed when you progress over the quilt. Obviously I forgot about the size requirement, so it is abpit 30 cm square instead of paper sized.

Me in Pink and Purple

Here is my response to Lynn's challenge 'Self Portrait'.

Have loved this challenge!

I made two 12" blocks, one in pink and one in purple using traditional blocks.

Then, cut a face from the pink, and the framing hair in the purple.

Rejoining the pieces to reform the 12" block, and adding some simple thread drawing for eyes and lips, finishing off with some simple quilting, and a satin stitch border.

I hope you like it.

Bring on the first challenge of 2011.

Self Portrait

This self portrait was inspired by one I had done previously, and because of time constraints I decided to use it again although the original was smaller and a paper collage, this is printed onto fabric, a border added and then quilted. All will have to wait to see my physical image.

Stone Soup

Finished Stone Soup with no extra embellishment from me . I ironed the pieces onto an iron non woven stabilizer, then zigged zagged over the edges with an invisible thread; layered the piece and enveloped it. I then re zigged zagged it again with the invisible thread. I have discreetly put each persons name on their block on the front with a pigma pen. I have also put the names on the back, corresponding with the appropriate block.

Self Portrait - Take 2

I was going really well with this challenge prior to Christmas, had it all planned out to do an Andy Warhol style portrait, printed out my selected portrait then carefully packed everything away for Christmas.......never to be seen since. I've looked high and low and and I'm sure my original will turn up tomorrow.

With time running out I decided to do a thread painting, once again using black and white. Nearly everything I've done this year in regular quilting has been in black and white and thought this might be a good way to end the year.

Self Portrait

There are times when I feel like I am watching life go by from behind a fence.....

My son took this photo, I enlarged it then drew up the main lines on a sheet of acetate, placed iron on Vylene on top and chopped fabric scraps and just let them fall on the image. When I was happy with the placement I slipped out the acetate and ironed it all down.Then I trimmed back the Vylene and placed the face onto the background. The eyeshadow, brows and lashes were added then the face was quilted and the fence and binding added. I had problems with my specs, they blended into the whole too much. I couched a thin gold braid by hand. Thank you Lynn for this Challenge-lots of fun!

Linda in colour

Very soon after Lynn set us this challenge I knew I wanted to use this photo, that a fellow student made during my photography class in October 2010. After all, having a camera in front of my face has been rather characteristic of me this year!

I wanted to make a stylized version and initially thought of having a thermofax screen made of this photo. However, thermofaxes can only do black and white and I wanted more gradations. I toyed with the idea of having two or three screens made and layering them, but decided that would be too much work - since I wanted four different portraits, Andy Warhol style. Finally I thought of using Spoonflower to create the portraits.



I fused them to a purple background fabric:



Quilted the piece with invisible thread and finished the edges with a satin stitch:



I hope you like Linda Warhol - I do!

self portrait

Have started the self portrait, having a little trouble dissolving the solvy! lots of water, some rubbing, but there is still some left. My piece is a little different, and I am a bit slowed down by all the sewing room and its contents being packed away to paint the walls, however we have had so much rain and it is so humid I am now waiting for better weather. I can't wait till they are all revealed.
Jane

Sneak peek

On the day before Christmas, I finally received the things I had ordered for my self portrait quilt and today I finished it, four days before the deadline! Here is a sneak peek.

Stone Soup: served

I have finally completed the Stone Soup Compilation. Each piece has been individually quilted and block mounted. I could only find 4 inch square artist blocks, so had to modify these to 4 x 5 inches. These 15 mini artworks were then mounted on a 24 x 18 inch mounted canvas print of the original photo.

Artists from left to right, top to bottom:

Kathryn, Marian, Linda, Sue, Jane (with embellishment by Kathryn)

Simone, Jane, Margeeth, Chris, Marloes

Fran, Robin Kathryn, Lynn, Fionie

The name of the artist and where they are from is machine stitched on the right hand side of each block.

Stone Soup, finally

Here is my Stone Soup, finished at last! I has taken me a long time but I like the end result.

Self portait peek

Here is a peek:

And there is an extra teaser here.

A peek

My little self portrait is finished! Here is just a little peek. Marian