After
further contemplation I decided to use denim which brought to mind a picnic
quilt I had made for my daughter's family years ago. At my artist husband's insistence, we have
been saving worn blue jeans for years, so having enough denim in my stash was no
problem. Over the years I have made
handbags and tote bags from denim and my daughter even made a jacket from the
leftovers. So using denim was
decided.
Now for the design. I started with a photo of the picnic
quilt and began manipulating
it with Photoshop.
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| Picnic quilt |
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| Manipulated design |
Most of the ensuing designs would have been very labor intensive but I finally created a design which seemed achievable. The picnic quilt was huge in comparison to our 16" x 16" format, so I cropped a section of the design and used it as a point of departure.
When I realized that even the pared down design would require
piecing very small bits of fabric, it seemed that if I was to finish on time, I
could not meticulously follow the colors and patterns in the cropped design.
So the finished quilt is randomly pieced 2 ½" squares
set together in a mostly random pattern.
A few more construction details can be viewed on my blog.
A few more construction details can be viewed on my blog.
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| Random Recycled Blue |
I love your random blues Judy! I also like your picnic quilt; you have me inspired to dig out my old denim. I'm headed over to see more at your blog....
ReplyDeleteLove the randomness of it- and I can't imagine sewing all that denim! I think this is a fun piece- and I hope you keep that design you came up with in Photoshop, I think it would be worth playing with!
ReplyDeleteI love it! so many shades of blue just from old blue jeans. There is a wonderful sense of movement. Piecing with denim - especially that small - must have been interesting - but your results are well worth it!
ReplyDeleteThat’s a whole lot of different denim blues! I always love that your quilts give so much to see, I keep looking at all those pieces. Fabulous!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lot of piecing! You know that is something I usually avoid - and with denim, too I love the variety of colours you got and so much depth. Great!
ReplyDeleteJudy, this is really cool! I love your random piecing!And the others are right, there are some itty bitty looking pieces in there!
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