I thought I’d share my process in the design & execution of a still life commission quilt I’m working on this week, day 1 here. (Updated deadline – THURSDAY at NOON) (Yikes). Yesterday was a wash – I spent the whole day at Disneyland, my older son’s jazz band was playing there, so I took my smaller son and we spent the entire day there. I still exhausted and its almost noon the next day! So, let me quickly show you what I did on Sunday:
https://www.candiedfabrics.com/2010/01/03/still-life-art-quilt-commission-the-beginning/
| Here’s the paper pattern printed up to full size (24″ x 32″) and taped together |  |
| I blocked in the major shapes with the colors selected yesterday, adding one really fantastic piece of fabric to tie the warm orange in with the cool greens and blues. |  |
| Here are the 5 major shapes roughly cut and placed in approximate position. |  |
| Here I’m figuring out what colors to use for the pieces where the overlaps occur: |  |
| Here’s the final arrangement, loosely fused to the background, and this is how far I got on Sunday |  |
I’ve got a lot of work to do today and tomorrow! So I’d best be about it!
6 Responses
Wow, that is so cool to see it step by step! Thanks for sharing!
Yeah, that’s fun to see it evolve. 🙂
this is super, candy! i love looking at art quilts – they are like paintings of fabric!
Very interesting! I’ve been thinking about doing some vases, I’ll put that on my list. Thanks for the inspiration!
It is coming along nicely. I really like the vases.
Very nice! I wish I had an eye for color, etc. I’m good at following directions, but that’s about the extent of it…….lol.
Linda