So my throwback is something I did about five years ago after a trip to Alaska to see my brother and his family. I was so in love with the glaciers - the incredible blues against the pristine snow. I wanted to use a bunch of different whites with different textures and then heavily quilt it, but that turned out to be a disaster. I tried to add shadows with thread and frankly, did not know what I was doing.
It is, I think, the only quilt I have never finished! Oh well, live and learn. Painting with thread is at least not for me, something I can just "do." It requires skills that I must learn from someone who knows what they are doing, apparently.
A little while later, I made a sketch for a piece using grays and color, but after I drew it, it hit me that it would be a perfect glacier quilt, so here is the result, called of course, Glacier.
I love this piece so much, even though I realize it's kind of seasonal, but the blues are so dead-on as far as the glaciers go. I learned a ton while making this piece, as the white is whole cloth and the glaciers are inserted into it. And I love the framing, too. I elected not to quilt the frame because I liked it so much just the way it turned out.
So there is my throwback for this month. Kind of fun to revisit, huh? Good idea Jenn!
No comments:
Post a Comment