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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Percolating

A couple weeks ago I was on Instagram and noticed how nice and colorful my "grid" looked. I took a screen shot (on purpose this time, wow!).

And then off to Percolator I went, just to see if I was right. First of all, I love the black and white abstraction of the top and bottom, isn't that cool? Almost like a steampunk lace design. Also, some of the squares of the photos would make great mini-quilts just like this.

I played around with some of the settings (it's pretty much impossible not to).

This circle overlay look with more of the original picture is interesting. I was thinking of how to make this in a fabric piece, it would have to be layered. The background piece could be a print out on fabric of the screen shot photo. Then subsequent layers could also be printed on organza or something similar. I think it might work.

I like this greyed-out version a lot. Some of these squares from the original photo suggest great color palettes for a quilt.

Monday, March 07, 2022

Instagram Quilt Fest

I’ve been participating in the Instagram Quilt Fest this month. There’s a daily prompt and then people share pictures and an answer of some sort. It’s all over the map, there’s some advertising, and also some interesting quilters to discover and maybe follow. You can follow the #️⃣ at #IgQuiltFest2022 and check out the influx of new QUILTY content.

I posted about this quilt from 2003 “I Guess I Like Pink After All.” It’s so striking to me how “modern quilt” it is, if it wasn’t made with my hand-dyes, but commercial solids instead it would fit right in. It’s also obvious to me just how little I’ve changed my approach to improv construction.

Monday, January 06, 2020

Instagram To Start the Year

Over on Instagram, I've gotten into the habit of making month markers using the app SnapSeed. It's just a way to visually separate the months as you scroll back over your year of posts. This is made from a photo I took on our traditional New Year's Day hike. I made it 4.18 miles, woohoo me!

Every time I remember to use the Year of Colour summing up of one's posts on Instagram for the previous year, I'm struck by what colours stand out (*note the U* I love spelling colour that way*) It always makes sense somehow. And I wonder if I can be conscious about what I post on Instagram to make it look a certain way by the end of the year?? I'm going to try to post more frequently on Instagram this year, so maybe that will work.

I kind of want to print this image out and put it on a t-shirt to wear around for the rest of the year. Wouldn't that be an interesting tee design? Or maybe just cut out different sized circles of these colors and make a quilt?

Monday, April 22, 2019

Colorful Month

Sometimes I look at what I've posted on Instagram lately, and I'm struck by color palettes from these sort of random groupings of my photographs.

It reminded me of Palette Builder, which I hadn't played with in a while.

The first color picks were pretty dull compared to the vibrancy of the photos, but it's probably calculating over the percentage of the images that are certain colors, instead of just the bright parts that jump out. A good reminder of color usage in quilts, huh?

Now that's a bit more to my liking, I think these colors together would make a very pretty and lively quilt.

Saturday, January 07, 2017

Makelight Report

Some really fun and interesting stuff from Makelight Courses, a report based on my last years' worth of images I posted on Instagram. Pretty colorful stuff, especially thanks to the #100Days100Blocks project.

The first picture is the whole year in color, I kind of want to make this into a quilt! If only I was up to the curved piecing that would be involved.

My nine most popular instagram posts:

The month by month palettes are interesting, there's always some green, except for February...

It might be fun to do some monthly blocks based on the color palettes. And then that would result in a quilt that would represent the colors of the year. Hmmm, I'll have to think about that one.