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jelazakazone asked: - Quilting! What do you love about it? What frustrates you? What's your favorite project to date?What do I love about quilting!
And even some that dont!
(The Gingham Quilt)
I love the opportunity for design - the way that one can jazz up a very simple block. This quilt would look a lot less interesting if I'd designed it differently!
(Floating Wildflowers)
And finally, I love the practicality of quilts. They're not just pretty things that sit and gather dust, they're useful. I always tell my quilt recipients to use the quilt. Doesn't matter if it gets dirty or spewed on or shat on or smeared with food (they're usually baby quilts) - they should be USED.
(Stepbro Supernova)
As to what I find most frustrating...probably that there's not quite enough time to make all the quilts I want to make from all the fabric I have!
My favourite project to date...that's a difficult one. I've made so many and I love them all (well, most of them) in some way or another. So here's a mosaic of four quilts that I've designed from scratch. Not all of them are finished yet!
From top left, clockwise:
1. "The Eternity quilt" - a perennial favourite from a couple of years ago. (Now hanging up at my church.)
2. "Swarm" - a new design I'm putting together.
3. "Walkabout" - a celebration of Australia, humanity, and transience.
4. "Snowflowers" - a new design I need to make a pattern for.
And I blog about my quilting at Mad Quilter's Disease if you'd like to see more!
I'm all about the geometrics, which I believe is pretty much the opposite of what I've seen of your lovely quilting work,
jelazakazone! (And been really impressed by, too.)Talkmeme on LJ | Talkmeme on DW
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Hm, I think it's true that my work is more focused on organic shapes, but I do love some good geometrics.
What's happened to me in the past few years is that I ran out of people to make usable quilts for. When I started making the little art quilts, all of a sudden people were interested and THEY WANTED THEM. Before, people would say, "oooh, that's pretty," but they never wanted them. Being the kind of person who thrives on what the psych world calls positive feedback (I think), I turned the corner. So, I have made a few baby quilts in the past two years, but have really shifted to non-practical wall art.
However, after the neuroscience convention, I have to say, one of the artists got me thinking about doing big quilts again. And I do have an itchy make bigger pieces again. I love that quilts are beautiful and practical.
Also, find the art quilting much more compelling because it has meaning, even if it's not really apparent initially. I love that your quilts have more going on than meets the eye (at least some of them :)). I'm all about the coded meanings. Even my kids' quilts have meaning in them, based on the fabrics I used.
I will stop blathering now. Can talk about textiles endlessly. Thanks so much for the awesome post. Will check out your blog too.
Also, do you do the quilting yourself, or do you hire it out? I think I won't be quilting anything big myself again.
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I love talking about textiles! And, yes, quilts always have meaning for me, at least, even if it's not immediately apparent in the design, or totally private to me and my thoughts.
(What neuroscience convention? I think I missed that post of yours.)
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Oooh, that's awesome. I think textiles tell stories and it's our job to organize them so they can do it. Or well, even clothes tell a story.
I'm artcollisions :D
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I'm a bright, saturated colour kind of quilter - even the more traditional prints I choose for my quilting tend to be very saturated in colour.
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My goal is to make a foundation paper-piecing pattern for it.