Over the years of attending Empty Spools Seminars at Asilomar near Pacific Grove California I have snapped almost 100 photos of the Conference Grounds campus and the wonderful Julia Morgan Arts and Crafts style buildings, the rocky beach and tidepools,the Monterey Cypresses, the weathered redwood fences, the boardwalk across the dunes nearby and of course the deer that wander freely everywhere. I filed them away thinking I would someday design a quilt around them, but was never quite sure how to combine all the disparate elements.
This last spring in a workshop with Australian quilt artist Gloria Loughman which focused on just this idea - how to combine different scenes in one quilt composition - I was finally able to put it together.
So it is finally finished.... About seven of my photos combined in a fantasy landscape that includes it all - even the deer.
The quilt is a combination of piecing and fused appliqué using hand dyes
and batiks. The ocean and the cypress tree are painted with Tsukineko
inks and Jacquard textile paints. The deer are actually digitally
printed from my photographs and over painted. The stonework border on
the right is fabric printed at Spoonflower.com from a photograph of one
of the Asilomar buildings. (Many thanks to the Pixeladies and their
great Photoshop classes where I learned how to fashion a fabric repeat)
and the vegetation on the dunes is free motion embroidery.
Here are a few of my photos....
This last spring in a workshop with Australian quilt artist Gloria Loughman which focused on just this idea - how to combine different scenes in one quilt composition - I was finally able to put it together.
So it is finally finished.... About seven of my photos combined in a fantasy landscape that includes it all - even the deer.
The quilt is a combination of piecing and fused appliqué using hand dyes
and batiks. The ocean and the cypress tree are painted with Tsukineko
inks and Jacquard textile paints. The deer are actually digitally
printed from my photographs and over painted. The stonework border on
the right is fabric printed at Spoonflower.com from a photograph of one
of the Asilomar buildings. (Many thanks to the Pixeladies and their
great Photoshop classes where I learned how to fashion a fabric repeat)
and the vegetation on the dunes is free motion embroidery.
Here are a few of my photos....
Sally, I loved seeing this spectacular piece in person at the SAQA meeting. It is just fantastic.
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