Wordless Wednesday: One I couldn’t part with(Log Cabin Quilt Mosaic)
Category: Quilts
Wordless Wednesday: My Husband’s Sampler Quilt
Ann Brauer: Quilts in Conversation with Color
Ann Brauer makes quilts from color, from landscape, from beauty. I love how she lets the colors play off of each other, whether in intense jewel tones, rainbow progressions, or in letting flashes of brightness be wrapped in greys and browns. On twitter she made a comment that resonated with me about people not realizing they were looking for a quilt until they saw hers. We get ideas about what “quilts” are or what “mosaics” are. There is immense wonder in being wowed by an artwork, in responding before we even know what we are looking at.
The piece above, Ancient Light, is captivating with the windows of orange against the muted background. She wrote a blog post, Why Grey?
Why did I want to work in these colors again? What was it about them? Why was I drawn to these soft colors of slate and mist, mauve and taupe? Was it the trees in the winter? Their bark against the fallen leaves? Or the sky just before a snow storm? Those deep rich colors? Or just wanting to contrast these dark colors against clouds of light and promise?
More Orange Goodness on my Orange Tuesdays Pinterest Board
Wordless Wednesday: Quilt by Wendy Hill, Out Far, In Deep
Wendy Hill’s Blog: QuiltMania Mania
Wordless Wednesday: Log Cabin Quilt in Mosaic by Margaret Almon
It’s Fun When Quilters Visit the Nutmeg Designs Booth: A Link to my Home Economics Past
I love when quilters come into my booth, as at the 2012 PA Guild Show in Wilmington. They come closer and are happy to find that the mosaics that looked familiar are indeed based on quilt patterns. I had a conversation with a woman who loved the colors in my work, and that she feels the way about colors in fabric. I won the Adele Swenson award for excellence in Home Economics in the 9th grade.
It took me awhile to figure out that the allure of Home Economics was that I liked choosing fabric, not the actual sewing. I still remember the colors and textures of fabric I chose in junior high: nubby linen in red with black flowers, brown plaid with gold threads, cream cotton with a tiny strawberry print, maroon fine wale corduroy(which apparently I was spelling the Canadian way, cordouroy, which the spellchecker took issue with), and black cotton with shimmering gold flowers for a blouse with gold piping.
I am glad that I can interpret quilt patterns in glass, keeping the color, and the thread connecting me to my younger self.
Mosaic Quilt Blocks in my Nutmeg Designs Etsy Shop.
Karen Schulz: Original Art Quilts
From Karen Schulz:
My journey with fiber began with making clothing, then followed a path to create original one of a kind quilts for the bed which included repeat block and medallion designs. From there I made representational art quilts for the wall often inspired by nature. These art quilts taught me to truly see, and helped school me in basic design principles, teaching me about line, shape, color and proportion. I am currently creating abstract pieces as I learn to rely solely on my interior sense of design.
I believe in the transformative power of creativity. My art, created mindfully, transforms me and hopefully those who view it.
More orange goodness at my Orange Tuesdays Pinterest Board.
Rachel Derstine Designs: Orange Quilt Goodness from PA
Rachel Derstine’s work has a glow to bask in, with color variegation and pulsating quilting stitches. She is from my part of Pennsylvania, although she grew up in Japan, and combines the PA quilting tradition with kimonos, silks, ikat and batik. Rachel’s attention to texture is very inviting to my eye, and I feel a kinship with her multiplicity of fabrics. As much as I love iridescence in my own mosaic art, I love it even more when I surround the brilliance with simple matte glass. Check out more of Rachel’s work at her Rachel Derstine Designs site(including her orange header!)
More Orange and my Orange Tuesdays Pinterest Board.
Barbara Persing’s Sampler Quilt in Glorious Orange
I found this photo while working on a post for my HiP Passions Column, about quilters of Pennsylvania, and was blown away by the orange intensity. Stratoz and I saw this quilt at the 2009 Pennsylvania Quilt Extravaganza, and I immediately wanted him to take a photo! Barbara Persing’s quilt glows with color gradation, the veering from yellow, to orange, to red and magenta. Persing started a Longarm Quilting business in 2000, and then in 2006 started a pattern design business with her sister Mary Hoover, 4th and 6th Designs. I love that these sisters are making a life of their creativity, and I love that one of their books is called Stratavarious Quilts, using a technique of “strata” strips pieced together that are then the building blocks of quilts. My husband, Wayne Stratz, goes by Stratoz on his blog, and has named some of his designs “Stratozspheres” and I resonate with Stratavarious!
More Orange Goodness at my Pinterest Orange Tuesdays Board.
