When Spring arrives, I'm one of the first ones in the neighborhood to be puttering around out doors. While gardening can be demanding to the body, it is always 'easy on the eyes.'
Now, I'll backtrack to where my idea for this theme originated: QuiltCon 2015 in Austin, Texas. While there, I picked up a Windham Fabrics designer handbook and noticed that so many of the designer fabrics were inspired by flowers and spring and jungles and paint. Some of the fabric lines had names such as Succulents, Flora, Tiger Lily, Spring Bloom, Meadowlark and Sunshine Serenade. Can you have any more garden fun than this!
Arriving back home, I first cut a piece of Tyvek and painted (as best I could) my garden shed and patches of green grass and daffodils then snipped out pictures of the designer fabrics from the handbook and pasted them willy-nilly on the painted Tyvek. I then took painted tissue paper and glued that on for some texture and added cut out flowers from fabric scraps. Finishing with a little more gesso and gel and stitching, this one is fresh out of the garden.
Now, I'll backtrack to where my idea for this theme originated: QuiltCon 2015 in Austin, Texas. While there, I picked up a Windham Fabrics designer handbook and noticed that so many of the designer fabrics were inspired by flowers and spring and jungles and paint. Some of the fabric lines had names such as Succulents, Flora, Tiger Lily, Spring Bloom, Meadowlark and Sunshine Serenade. Can you have any more garden fun than this!
Arriving back home, I first cut a piece of Tyvek and painted (as best I could) my garden shed and patches of green grass and daffodils then snipped out pictures of the designer fabrics from the handbook and pasted them willy-nilly on the painted Tyvek. I then took painted tissue paper and glued that on for some texture and added cut out flowers from fabric scraps. Finishing with a little more gesso and gel and stitching, this one is fresh out of the garden.
Thank you Chris Daly for a most refreshing Art Quilts Around The World
Springtime Theme
March 2015.
I do like this Marty, there is so much to see and explore in your garden.
ReplyDeleteYes, Sue, this one was a busy piece.
DeleteWhat a great way of using bright flower prints. Love the bright colours, I must admit I would like to have a garden full of flowers just like this.
ReplyDeleteChristine, I too wish my garden had so many flowers. Perhaps in another Spring when myself starts getting younger again!
DeleteFun blend of textures, techniques and ideas! I love the idea of a garden full of fabric :) I would put the time and energy into cultivating that garden any day!
ReplyDeleteYes, Monique.....my kind of garden and a lot less dirt under the fingernails!
DeleteYour garden is just what we need as we enter spring...not quite there yet...lots of brown around while we wait for the blooms to pop!!
ReplyDeleteMy azalea bushes are just about to pop. They will be beautiful for Easter Sunday. Really ready for a nice spring season.
ReplyDeleteIt does remind one of an array of flower gardens all around town!!!! Nicely done!!!
ReplyDeleteRobbie, we are having a beautiful season and the flowers are making a joyful statement in every neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteI love your beautiful fabric garden, I bet you loved tending it.
ReplyDeleteI do enjoy being outdoors in the Springtime of the year. Age has made me move more slowly, however.
DeleteWow! that's a busy garden. Looks like you had fun creating that Marty.
ReplyDeleteYes, I did have fun with this one. Tried working with different mediums other than fabric to put in a little more depth and dimension.
DeleteWhat a colourful and textural piece this is. I love the abstractedness ( is that a word?) of it
ReplyDeleteI won't be checking the dictionary to see if you've just made up a new word......because I take it as a compliment. While I'm not the Monet type, I did like the whimsy of painting then cutting up the tyvek and tissue and paper to put a lot of abstractedness in my garden.
DeleteI'll go along with abstractedness! I love a quilt that makes you sit down and take time to see it all! Good job!
ReplyDeleteThanks Lizz. There are a lot of flowers in this one to gaze upon.
ReplyDeleteNice textures! How did you go stitching through all that gel medium etc? I've always wondered if it gets too hard and breaks the needle in patches, i've only used it in small amounts on little areas before. I think you showed remarkable restraint in using Tyvek and then not melting it somehow - I can never do that!
ReplyDeleteI have become fearless when it comes to stitching through layers. No, Neroli, neither the gel, nor gesso gets too heavy to stitch through. I learned to do this when in a book-making class. Gel and gesso watercolor paper and fabric all stitched together beautifully. (I didn't iron this one for fear the tyvek would melt.)
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