Last week Sue shared her art group's latest challenge. This week she is sharing the process behind her quilt "Ripples". This abstract design is something "out of the box" for her, and she still is not quite sure about some of the choices, but at any rate, its done! Here's a reminder of the inspiration painting, "Skiffs" by Gustave Caillebotte.
Sue's approach was to make an abstract interpretation of the painting, so she started by altering a photo in an iPad app called Mega Photo. The variation she chose to work with gave a zigzag effect to the colors and objects of the painting.
Looking at this gave her the idea to work with triangles to create the zigzag effect. Drawing it out on graph paper allowed her to plan color placement and figure out how many triangles of each fabric were needed. Some of the triangles needed to be split between 2 different fabrics/colors. Of course, adjustments were made on the design wall during construction.
The two main fabrics used were some that Sue created. One was a snow dye, done with blue, green and yellow. The other was from another abstracted photo with similar colors that she had digitally printed by Spoonflower. These 2 fabrics, along with some other hand dyes and a commercial fabric make up the rest of the piece.
Snow dye
Digital Print
In the above photo you can see the difference with the yellow on the left and at the bottom right. Some of the bottom also got cut off to meet the size limitation. When all was sewn together, layered and quilted, it still seemed to need something more to emphasize the zigzag pattern. So Sue went through her stash of yarns and found 2 that she thought would add to the design.
These were stitched with monofilament (invisible) thread down the center of each zigzag segment. And that's how it all came together!
This is the finished "Ripples", inspired by the Caillebotte painting. What do you think? Go back to the previous post to see the whole group of quilts made for this challenge.
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