June To-Do

 It's the rhyming month for to-do lists, hurrah. Here's how the design wall looks at the beginning of the month. Filled up with the recently basted Japanese Houses quilt. Onto the to-do's then:

Sew-A-Long Thingies

Trinket - keep piecing blocks, cut background squares

Color Collective - Sandwich the Slopes Quilt, make another side for the Clover Pillow with Swerves, start cutting for Colorwash

Stitch Happens - sandwich, quilt, bind, label.

Pantone Project - keep making blocks and sending postcards.

Temperature Quilt - keep making blocks and post about it.

Secret Lives of Colors- finish making blocks and post about it.

Added: Participate in ICAD

New Work

Mini-Quilt for SBAMQG using a word(s) in some manner. Due at next week's meeting 6/4

A Hot One to celebrate the Color of the Year, Viva Magenta

Stitch Punk and Fierce Planets - both SAQA exhibits

Finish It Up

Sightlines Triptych - make and hand sew on hanging sleeves and labels.

Y.E.S. Coat - make more blocks and pieces.

Orange Bullseye - quilt, bind, label

Japanese Houses -quilt bind, label

Quilt Photography - Still need to get it done, because I'll be needing the photos to enter a couple of upcoming shows and to update my website. Plus I really need the space back in my workroom.

Triad Appears

 

Et voilà! A triptych appears.

I'm looking forward to quilting these now, a much more manageable size. I used fusible batting which always speeds things up for me. I even remembered to cover the print with something just in case some of the paint wasn't fixed. There were a few little tacky bits, so I'm glad I saved my iron the trouble.

I might use a thread color that matches the central print through the whole thing in lines...Sightlines.

In triad color theory that should work. I'll try it and see.

Sightlines Triad

 

After getting the printing done that I wanted to accomplish I chose my three favorites to put into a quilt to enter into the Print/Quilt exhibit. It was going to have to be on the small side to get done in time, but I really didn't want to cut up the prints. The initial idea was to call this quilt Sightlines and have quilting lines going between all the eyes.

Based on a sketch that took a triad view from my color wheel, I came up with these combination of hand-dyes to sort of frame each one. The cerulean blue print would be framed with chartreuse and blue-red. The Blue Green print would be framed with red-violet and yellow-orange. The orange-yellow print would be framed by aqua green and violet.

I decided that I needed something in-between the print and the much more intense hand-dyes, so I chose a lighter hand-dyed and manipulated one that would tie all three together and had the additional dye printing work of dots which echo the backgrounds of the prints. I thought that looked a lot better, but I still didn't like them all in one piece. Too crowded, too formal, not enough space to have a dynamic design.

So I decided to make three separate but much smaller (but not too small). Much better. 

What's this? Another triptych?

This works much better for me. It's really fun working with my hand-dyed and surface designed fabrics, it's been a while. If I can figure it out, I'm going to quilt them keeping the Sightlines idea in mind to have the quilting lines connect between the three quilts and the eyes.