Friday, March 28, 2014

Shoreline

Besides working on circle quilts I also have my aerial view quilts for Voyage. This is the latest one which I completed yesterday. I called it 'Shoreline'.

For the sand I used a piece of rust dyed fabric, for the water different hand dyed blues. Small strips of scrim are stitched down with seed beads and to complete it I added a number of buttons on it. Some time ago I had bought a set of beads in the shape of shells and starfish. They came with a shank, so I had to cut that off and than glued them down onto the quilt with E6000.
Size of this quilt is 12"x17". I am linking this post to Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday. Check out the link to see what other artists have done this week.

Friday, March 21, 2014

Autumn Circles

The title of this quilt does not match the season, but the colors do :-). For this circle quilt I used a discharged commercial fabric as background with a strip of Ugandan bark cloth on top of it. The circles are made from my own hand dyed fabrics.

As all my circle quilts, the size is 12"x24" and as it is Friday, I am linking this post to Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday. Don't forget to check what the other artists did this week.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Old Amsterdam

 
Besides my circle theme I am working on my aerial views for the Voyage group as well. Here is a picture of my latest one:
 

 
This one is inspired by a map from 1593 of Amsterdam. The map is cut out of interfacing as fabric would fray too easily. The houses are colored in with ink and intensely machine stitched. A very time consuming technique with lots of thread ends. Fabrics used are my own hand dyed ones.
The title actually has two meanings. Old Amsterdam is also the name of a very nice old cheese :-)

Friday, March 14, 2014

Bubbles

Till you start working with a theme you have no idea in how many ways you can use that theme. Here is another approach to circles:

This time it turned into a low contract quilt. The background is woven with two different batiks, both in grey/blue. Quilting is done by following the wavy lines. The smaller circles are placed in the 'squares' created by the quilting lines. For the small circles I used several colors out off my hand dyed stash.
I am linking this post to Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday. Check out this link to see what other artists have created this week.

Friday, March 07, 2014

Duck!

Duck!, no not for Donald, but beware the circles are falling :-). Here is my latest quilt in the circles series. With every quilt I make I come to the conclusion that there are still other ideas I want to use. And people who know me, know that this means that I have started a new circle quilt even before this one was completed.


I have to admit that I have no idea how many will follow :-). As usual I used my hand dyed fabric for this one and I am linking this to Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday too. Check out the link to see what other artists have done this week.