Kate Schaefer (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kate_schaefer) wrote,@ 2008-01-20 22:09:00 |
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Creative process
I'm making a quilt for my two-year-old great-niece (I made a quilt for my great-nephew before he was a month old, but he lives in the same state as I do, so my incentive to finish it quickly was greater).
I picked out a bunch of purple fabrics with roses and butterflies and pansies and stars and abstract patterns. The combination looked too girly, so I tossed in some fish and bugs and alligators and carrots. Some of the abstract patterns looked too muddy, so I took them out. It needed something a little more lively, so I threw in some orange and yellow for contrast. The alligators looked foolish without any zeebas, so I took them out. The butterflies really weren't doing it for me, so I cut them up into tiny abstract bits; there may be some whole butterflies on the back of the quilt when I'm done, but maybe not.
At this point, the most interesting part of the quilt was the fish, so I recentered the composition on the fish, framed with orange harlequin fabric with carrots at the corners. The whole center panel of the quilt will be five fish panels forming a ladder, with randomly pieced panels on either side.
I'm happy with it. I hope the little girl likes fish.
I'm making a quilt for my two-year-old great-niece (I made a quilt for my great-nephew before he was a month old, but he lives in the same state as I do, so my incentive to finish it quickly was greater).
I picked out a bunch of purple fabrics with roses and butterflies and pansies and stars and abstract patterns. The combination looked too girly, so I tossed in some fish and bugs and alligators and carrots. Some of the abstract patterns looked too muddy, so I took them out. It needed something a little more lively, so I threw in some orange and yellow for contrast. The alligators looked foolish without any zeebas, so I took them out. The butterflies really weren't doing it for me, so I cut them up into tiny abstract bits; there may be some whole butterflies on the back of the quilt when I'm done, but maybe not.
At this point, the most interesting part of the quilt was the fish, so I recentered the composition on the fish, framed with orange harlequin fabric with carrots at the corners. The whole center panel of the quilt will be five fish panels forming a ladder, with randomly pieced panels on either side.
I'm happy with it. I hope the little girl likes fish.
