Monochromatic Art Quilt

Greetings!  I belong to the Unruly Quilt Artists, based in Meridian, ID.  At our meeting, earlier this month, we each chose a number from one to ten.  I picked nine.  I got the top tray, which had all green fabrics on it.  We were each given a piece of foam-core board to pin our pieces to.  This is a wonderful challenge!

I kind of knew what sort of thing was going to happen, so I came prepared with my backing fabric and a piece of batting, so I was a step ahead on that.  Above is what I started at our meeting.  I picked some of the fabrics I liked and trimmed them unevenly.  The one fabric reminded me of planet Earth, so I made an Earth.  Then I thought, all this green is for trees, so I made a tree trunk.  

When I got home, I pulled out my little stash of green fabric scraps, (I have very little green), and found one piece of mottled green that would work as a total background to work upon.  So, I removed everything, then added the background, the Earth and tree trunk back in.  Then I thought about orbits around the Earth.  I cut smaller pieces and made the tree top and some orbits.  I need to add more of the very deep green for darkness and depth.  I also want to add some words.

I recently bought a book of art projects for kids, using cursive.  Creative Adventures in Cursive, by Rachelle Doorley, copyright 2018.  I like this method of making a cursive word template.

Use a Friction pen to trace around the template, any ink left on the word will disappear when hit with a hot iron.

I think it is going to look amazing, when I get it finished.  You'll have to check back in a couple weeks to see the end result.

More Kawandi Quilts!

Greetings and happy spring rainy stormy days!  Last month, I finished Kawandi #6, but I never posted it, so I am doing that now.  I used a mostly green and blue pallet. I just really wanted to use that blue with chartreus bubbly looking fabric, but I ended up reining it in a little, which I think was a good decision. 

A couple friends came over, today, to have a sew day at my house.  It was just good to do some catching up and sewing.  I decided to make a Kawandi quilt with solid colored jelly roll strips.  I planned the layout with the solid fabrics, but I just could not do it completely solid.  Using solids is fairly new for me, as I love wild prints.  I used one, non-solid color fabric.  I really think it did come out better with my modifications.  Below is Kawandi #7!

At first, I was hesitant to put that pink in, but it really goes with the print I chose.  I made the pink strips one-quarter inch narrower than the other strips.  I think that toned it down a tick.  Also, it helped move the composition a little to the right, so it is not exactly centered.  I was excited about trying a Kawandi with strips instead of odd sizes of rectangles.  

I am considering challenging myself to use all the left-overs in another Kawandi quilt.  Just thinking . . .