Q is for Quilts: Fabric and Glass
Tag: log cabin quilt block
Wordless Wednesday: Log Cabin Quilt Collages from When I Could Only Dream of Making Mosaics
5 Fabulous Quilt and Textile Bloggers to Inspire Any Artist
Deciding to make quilt patterns in glass was one of the most exciting choices I’ve made as a mosaic artist. The Log Cabin block in particular brings out my creativity and allows me to play with color. The challenge of making scrap quilts gives me a good springboard for my own mosaics made of scraps of glass. Stratoz creates a lot of glass bits in his studio, and I love putting them to good use.
Quilters also quite adept at blogging and I’d like to share some of my favorite quilt bloggers. They are a storehouse of creative energy.
There is so much history encoded in different fabrics, and Barbara Brackman provides fascinating detail, and always has photos. I especially enjoyed the Perkiomen Valley Patch, as I live very near the Perkiomen Valley in PA.
Lisa Call: Contemporary Textile Art
Lisa Call says she creates vivid geometric abstract contemporary quilts. I feel a kinship to her experimentation with color and her passion for her art. She has an interesting post about working in a series, and the permutations the theme takes.
John Hopper writes about every imaginable textile from quilts to embroidery to macrame! I’ve learned a lot from his meticulous research and writing. He highlighted a contemporary quilt artist Paula Nadelstern and her cool kaleidescope quilts.
Sew On and On: My Joyful Journey Through Arts and Life
Valerie Kamikubo populates her blog with visual treats, and her observations about art and creativity. The colors in her post of dyeing fabric are very vibrant.
Planet Textile Threads(link currently not working)
Further Reading
Beautiful Thrift: Coin Quilt Patterns in Mosaic
Making a Variable Star Mosaic: Ohio Star
Over at Stratoz:
7 for the Weekend–Celebrating a 2009 Quilt Show
Quilts of glass: Log Cabin, Broken Dishes, and maybe Ohio Star
I have been honored to cover my bed with quilts made by my husband’s grandmother Mamie Danner, and Wayne’s love of quilts piqued my own interest with this art form. In this photo, Mamie is 2nd from the right. She had a quilting room in the basement of her house, and Wayne remembers visiting her there.
Quilt patterns give me a thrill, and being to translate them into glass is very exciting. My ability to sew blocks is impeded by an antagonistic relationship with my sewing machine(which now belongs to my husband for the quilt he made). At first I collaged Christmas cards in a log cabin pattern, using magazine papers, and was utterly absorbed in the interplay of color, the many tones and textures present in photographic images. Then, when I moved into my studio, and began to make mosaics, I remembered the log cabin cards, and wondered what I could do with mosaic.
I took a 12×12 inch square of 1/2 inch plywood, and began the process of making a red and black log cabin design. Glass has a range of textures, and I alternated shiny, matte, copper flecked, rough, translucent, and iridized. I am drawn to both visual and tactile texture. I know some mosaicists like their work perfectly flat and smooth and go to great lengths to make it so, but that would drive me crazy.
Another block I was intrigued to find is called “Broken Dishes”–an appropriate name for work done in mosaic! It’s a mixture of triangles, in a configuration of lights and darks that adds sparkle as the eye moves over the contrasts. At a holiday show, a woman came up to me and said “Ohio Star.” At first, I wasn’t sure what she meant, and then she said, you must try Ohio Star, and that is next on my list of patterns to try.
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