After a business trip & back home, catching up with odds and ends, I find more stress relief improv is needed. Trying to downsize the content of my scrap bins, I pulled out neutral scraps, found some leftover geese, & began to play.
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| try as I may |
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| the geese will go on the back |
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Now then, all de-stressed, ready to go back to the trees for more improv.
Lovely way to de-stress! I liked the geese in the front!
ReplyDeleteLove the low volume quilt! It's funny that I have been pulling out some of the same and randomly piecing. I just don't have very many! Love yours and love putting the geese on the back.
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Wonderful Springtime trees!!!
ReplyDeleteMaybe try breaking up the geese so not in one line? I really like that palette.
I think the geese could have worked on the front if they were very very low contrast. I know they look low contrast when they're sitting next to other fabrics, but with the log cabins they overwhelm with force and direction. I love how it turned out without them.
ReplyDeleteAnd the trees are wonderful. I love the contrast between the two - the quiet meditation of the log cabins, and evocative storytelling of the trees.
Your low volume quilt looks like a great way to relax and rest the eyes. I love your process posts, it makes your artwork all the more interesting. Your trees and background are just amazing, beautiful, artistic, well-made, just marvellous.
ReplyDeleteAnother very Mary quilt in your neutrals. Really lovely, informal and cozy--the type of quilt I want to curl up in on a breezy summer day. Your trees just amaze me! I love to see how you go back and forth from planned to improv. One does feed the other.
ReplyDeleteEvery now and again I think of you, and then in a day or so, you have a great post! Thanks. I'm looking at your Improv and wonder about what thread to use to quilt it. Bright or quiet? Have fun!
ReplyDeletelove the new quilt and see everybody's point of view, but I sort of thought the flying geese looked like a spine arcing through the low volume...giving the whole a possibly edgy feel...unexpected. Love the trees and watching them grow, all the more so because this is work I could NEVER do. You're the best (and won't it be fun when you own the beach house next door!!) xo
ReplyDeleteI really like where this quilt is going. The trees are looking good too.
ReplyDeleteGosh, your work is fantastic! All styles. Do you find it hard to quilt over the seam junctions? If not, what's your secret? :)
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Thank you Maggie. Since you are set up as "non-reply" I will answer your question here. I do all my quilting with my Juki sewing machine, I haven't encountered any problem quilting over the seam junctions. Of course, I don't claim to have the best of machine quilting skills. :)
ReplyDeletei like the geese gently swaying in the front! And your trees...amazing!
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