Friday, October 25, 2013

Blogger's Quilt Festival Fall 2013 Entry

     I tried to enter the Blogger's Quilt Festival at Amy's Creative Side last Spring, but I was working on some deadline that week, and I didn't get it posted in time. This fall I am getting it in early.

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     I have chosen to enter a quilt that I call "My Waterlilies".

 


     Here is a detail of the fabulous machine quilting by my dear friend, Regina Carter. Since the subject matter was watery, she chose a very watery looking pattern for the quilting. She always knows just what to do to bring out the best of your quilt.




     I guess this quilt is on my mind today because someone wrote to me to ask me if there was a pattern for it. There isn't. I can't make a pattern for it because it is nothing but half square triangles. 

     I am sorry, I cannot provide links to past blog posts about this quilt. I finished this quilt right before I started blogging, so I never wrote any blog posts about it.

     A couple of years ago I was browsing through a book of paintings by Claude Monet. I found a painting that I loved and wanted to try to interpret in a quilt.  


     You can see that this is a well worn copy of that photo. It got carried around quite a bit for about 2 years. I might have finished more quickly if I hadn't sold one house, bought another, and moved while I was working on this quilt. Can you see how a grid is drawn on the photo?

     The idea was to divide the photo into a grid and interpret each square on the grid as well as possible by choosing batiks with the same colors. I thought that batiks would enhance the watery feel. This could never be a pattern, since it is all about which colors you choose, and how you place them. I would love to teach it as a class though. I love that you get something that is at once alike and very different than the original subject. 

     I am currently working on another quilt like this, but I am using a different block, different fabric styles, and of course, a different painting.

    

12 comments:

  1. This is just a spectacular quilt! Congratulations on your good work and good luck in the festival!

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  2. love this and i see you love kaffe too xo

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  3. You quilt is just stunning!! Your interpretation is perfect. I'm looking foward to see your next one :)

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  4. You've done a wonderful job of capturing Monet's waterlillies in your quilt.

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  5. When I saw the thumbnail on the BQF page, my first thought was "Oh, Monet!" so you've definitely translated the painting well! Gorgeous work and my, oh, my are those blocks tiny!

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  6. What an amazing way to translate a painting into a quilt! Your color placement is spectacular, and I love that you have to really look to see what the block is--all you see is gorgeous color gradation at first. A truly spectacular quilt!

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  7. wow! that is so beautiful!!!!!!!!! (can you tell that I am impressed?)

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  8. This is beautiful! I am so jealous - triangles are my nemesis

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  9. I love, love, LOVE your quilt!! It is beautiful and I so enjoyed reading about your process. I have several images saved like that, with a dream for them to be a quilt and your post is so inspirational!

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  10. That is impressive! A beautiful translation of art to fabric!

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  11. Oooo... such a gorgeous interpretation! And your quilter truly did create a lovely, watery feel to finish it. Beautiful work!

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