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Saturation

Reve — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:00:37 +0000

The finished quilt: a 6″ by 6″ piece titled Saturation. It will be shown at an art fair on Wednesday.

The title came before the design; I was considering a quilt of leaf-patterned fabrics but just wasn’t feeling it, and the Feeling Stitchy August stitchalong was on my brain as well. I started looking at the fabrics and seeing what I liked, and the rich, saturated colors were the ones that grabbed me. Colors are saturated when they are very far from a gray of the same lightness. I think of saturated colors as being Very: very intense, very themselves. They don’t have to be dark or primary colors, but they are not going to be neutral.

On top of the saturated colors I saturated the quilt with embroidery. I tried to find a way to put an additional level of saturation into the quilt but I didn’t want to be so literal as to make it evoke the molecular structure of a saturated fat, or the mathematical structure of a saturated bipartite graph. Two levels will do.

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Yet more embossed fabrics

Reve — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:00:44 +0000

The final batch of four. Check back in a week for the finished quilt!

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More embossed fabrics

Reve — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:00:33 +0000

I have eight fabrics in addition to the two I did in time for the Feeling Stitchy August stitchalong deadline, so we’ll have four this week and four in two weeks; in three weeks I’ll show you the finished quilt.

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Feeling Stitchy Stitchalong

Reve — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:00:28 +0000

Feeling Stitchy hosts a stitchalong each month, with different themes. Often it’s a pattern that everyone embroiders in their own way. This month it was about embellishing printed fabric with embroidery. That’s something I’d been wanting to try for a while, so I went to Jo-Ann’s and looked at the fat quarters, picked out a black and white piece on which to embroider colored details, and went to work.

…except that project seemed insurmountably big and didn’t really hold my attention. I had given up hope on participating in the stitchalong until this weekend, when I was pondering the upcoming employee art fair at work. I would like to submit something, but the deadline is a week from today and has to include a photo of the piece. With nothing begun nine days before the deadline, what could I possibly accomplish?

Answer: a small art quilt. By small, I mean six inches square. The thoughts flowed while I ironed prewashed remnants Saturday morning, and while the original idea I pulled fabric for was not the one I settled on, I was decided by that afternoon.

Of course stitching didn’t start until Sunday afternoon. It was a perfect Irene-rain activity. The quilt isn’t done, of course, but here are the first two bits of embroidery.

I started with a fun tropical orange fabric with dotted-line drawings and just stitched along the lines and doodled in the open spaces. Next I chose a classic pink and indigo fabric and embossed its design.

The quilt is likely to include bits from the following fabrics as well:

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