4 days ago2 min read

Twilight which became an ocean

A twilight wave landscape patchwork pocket.

The studio moved and I am just beginning to get settled again. So I will be taking out the photos and videos of the "pockets" that the students created over the summer for their backpacks and sharing them with you.

This first one is a twilight wave landscape patchwork piece for one side of the pocket.

These were the original fabric strips that she chose from the scrap box.

fabric strips laid out in a design on a table

Quilte a nice selection, but she decided to wait another week as she knows that my scrap fabric strips multiply from other projects during the week and she wanted more colors.

4 different colored fabric strip piles on a wooden table

She took out the 2 top colors because there were only a few pieces of them and chose others instead.

Now its twilight which became an ocean.

fabric strips in piles of colors on a wooden table

I don't interfere while they are making their artistic color choices. I just reminded her that when she is creating the layout of the fabrics to keep the viewer in mind, and that there should be a color balance so that the eye can travel smoothly over the piece and not be stopped by a jarring color.

beginning to lay the fabric strips out in a design

Her piece flows beautifully!

fabric layout of the ocean colored fabric strips

This is after sewing, before quilting.

ocean colored pave landscape patchwork piece

Nothing ever gets thrown away in my classes. Thread scraps - orts, are placed in one bowl and the offcuts of fabrics in another. They can be used to create fabric beads and "new" ScrapFabric.