Solid Segments Quilt Top DONE!

My mini-quilt is finished...my inspiration was this painting by Shawn McNulty.

The mini-quilt will be on it's way from Florida to New York City tomorrow!  Hope you enjoy it Victoria!

deb

Solid Segments Swap Success

Say that really fast 3 times.

I finished my swap quilt. I have to say . . . this is the first real online swap I've been in. I've done blocks, and I did the Pay It Forward thing once (and got my favorite table runner in the world from Victoria), but never just a swap for a swap's sake. I didn't tell them that before I signed up, just so they'd let me in . . .

I waffled for quite awhile on picking a painting as my inspiration. Then I picked this Diebenkorn one:

Then I saw a photograph that looked like a painting, and wanted to do that, but got to thinking: "Are we supposed to really use a painting? Is using a photograph that looks like a painting cheating?" So I went back to my original idea.

Inspiration is about all I took from it. Some of the basic shapes are there, but I wanted my colors to be a bit more vivid. Why does everything I do turn out DULL in the end? I wanted COLOR. I also discovered that my stash is woefully understocked with solids, because I LOVE prints!

So I landed somewhere in the middle, still not sure that mine is any brighter than his:I hope you like it, Lisa.

My Quilt Top for the Solids Segment Swap Challenge

After too many weeks of sewing machine woes, I was finally able to pull a pile of solid scraps from my solids bin, and I got busy making the mini quilt for this swap.  My inspiration painting is in the picture below.

A day later and I have this. 

Hopefully it will be quilted right away and sent off to my swap partner just in the nick of time!  I'll post a picture of the completed mini quilt when it is done.

Deb

segment solids X2

After waffling over art and hesitating about starting, I finally jumped feet first into the solids challenge. First up is a Matisse-influenced square, which I plan to embellish with thread painting.

Here's the inspiration painting: The Creole Dancer. I decided to go with the idea of blocks of colour and I will embellish it in the quilting process.

My other attempt is more literal interpretation/adaptaion of Paul Klee's Heroic Roses:

I used a more limited colour palette here. I have a good start, now on to the quilting. If you're my partner, which one do you like the best?

Solids exchange almost done

Solids quilt inspired by Matisse

I'm almost done with my solids challenge quilt, I made a few additions to the piece I started with.  To bring out the black zigzags on the red background, I made red-and-black wavy fabric pieces; I think it adds  something to the design.  

Next I'll join the blue piece with the red and black piece, add them to the right-hand side and do some trimming. 

I'm thinking of adding a plain red strip across the top... blue strip at the bottom?  That blue on the right sort of sticks out, how shall I corral it into the overall design?  all the gold seems to be bunched together in one spot... and what shall I do with the left side? Decisions, decisions...

Any ideas??

Linda

All Over The Place

I've been playing with everything! I made Bee Blocks for Charlotte . . .

I got un-stuck on my Intuition Quilt, and added another round, and I already know what I'm going to do for the next round as well. I want it to be big.I made my large triangles from "made fabric", then pieced Flying Geese out of them with other scraps. I'm currently working on some really large pieces of "made fabric" to use in the next round. I'm having a blast rummaging through my scrap bin!

I've been deciding on a painting for the Solids Segmented Swap, and am just about ready to get started with that.

And I need to get crackin' on my Bee Blocks for July next.

I certainly hope that you all are having as much fun playing as I am!

Back where I started

I got back on track with my Solids Challenge after I remembered that I'm not trying to recreate  the painting as it appears - I'm being inspired  by it!  I'm not Matisse - Henri is!  After I realized that, I was able to move just a little bit out of the box I put myself into. 

For a reminder, here's the Matisse I'm using for inspiration:

Here's my first attempt:

It looks nothing like the painting, right? This little piece is the middle part you see through the doorway. Notice that, for my pieced version, I rotated it counter-clockwise; I like it better that way. I'm trying to use most of the original colors and generally picking up some of the shapes because they have a lot of potential. That black strip next to the two yellows is a bit wider than I meant, but that's okay, I get to take artistic license!

I'll add more blues, reds, maybe some orange and more black in there someplace.  Definitely some white and/or off-white too.

I thought about changing to a Kandinsky because his work has so much movement, but I'm going to stick with my original choice, and challenge myself to work it on out.  There's no "right" or "wrong" way for interpreting this challenge, right?  It'll help me grow. 

Solids segmented swap - first attempt

I had been thinking about how to approach my segmented quilt, then I thought I'd just dive right in and see what I could do... I have more fabric.  Again, here's the inspiration picture:

And here's what I did for the final quilt:

That green on the right is actually a dark green, not aqua.  It's interesting how the colors paled out in the photo.

Does it need something else??  To me it looks sort of blah... any suggestions???

Linda