After months of preparing house for sale and then maintaining it in 'show house' viewings condition, I'm FINALLY regaining studio time and space and actually using my sewing machines and 'sew-ezi' table finishing my CQ Journal Quilts before deadline of end of August. It's been a bit frustrating tracking down where threads and equipment are as my studio was set up to look tidy rather than for practical use but it's proving useful in thinking about planning layout for new studio space in Faversham.
After worrying whether I'd complete 4 quilts in time , I've actually made 6, all based on the 'mark-making' from my 2 City Lit courses ( Printmaking and Develop your Drawing) and
CQ Summer School which took place during this period of time.
Photo of
Collagraph of feather printed on fabric and applied to monoprint of threads
Photo of A1
drawing in graphite of pewter pot from multiple viewpoints, heavily machine quilted with variegated threads
' Landscape' of layered lines achieved through fabric collage on wool constructed on CQ Summer School
Another fabric collage using fabrics with marks ( 1 commercial, 1 discharge fabric from
Dorothy Caldwell masterclass). Quilted with fancy machine embroidery stitches ( hearts and stars) with connecting threads left. Needs more practice but this technique has possibilities in producing a different set of marks to my hand stitching and usual machine quilting.
My favourite drawings from CQ Summer School of positive and negative circles built up of tiny pencil marks interpreted in black stitches on
boiled wool fabric purchased in Shrewsbury. Edge finished with blanket stitch. Mainly sewn on train journeys! This fabric is lovely to sew even though it stretches, I'll be doing more stitching experiments with it.
Photos from CQ Summer School drawings printed on hand dyed grey cotton : spiral in ink; circle of fine pencil marks ( as above); graphite stick filling square with tiny white circle left. Quilted with spiral lines
My next set of 4 ( or more) journal quilts will be based on my
eco dyed/ printed fabrics
4 comments:
These are very inspirational. Love the development of the marks.
Love these and really looking forward to seeing your eco dyed ones.
Impressive variety and good use of mark-making! And to have made six....
A really lovely series.
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