and the fall 2010, Bloggers' Quilt Festival!
I'm so glad to have you here and want to begin by once again thanking our fabulous docent/hostess-with-the-mostest, Amy Ellis (formerly Park City Girl) of
Amy's Creative Side for all her hard work as well as our wonderful sponsors including
InLinks (how great is it to have pics in our links on Amy's site?) for having this great festival that allows us all to connect to one another in one homey but worldwide quilting community! I'm looking forward to seeing some great quilts and making some new friends!
I thought I'd share with all of you my favourite quilt that I've made this year (thus far), called "Of The Moment". It was inspired by a sketchbook cover that
Gennine Zlatkis created about a year ago. I've been a follower of
her blog for a number of years now and always find her
incredibly inspiring.
Within a couple of days of seeing it, I went out and bought the silks. I knew that I would someday make a quilt using that colour pallette - I even thought I might do lilac sea urchins and shells on the coppery brown silk!
But what happened instead, was that a few weeks ago I was in my sewing room and out of the blue decided that I wanted to make a really contemporary quilt. One that was "of the moment". Inspired by the color field painters of the early 20th century and Geninne's colour pallette above, I wanted to make a quilt that was modern, genderless; that would look equally well hung on a wall or draped artfully over a couch, and that was, above all: contemporary.
And so I designed a quilt that used bold colour choices that drew your eye off the "page", that used strong, simple lines to give it a contemporary feel; and speaking of feeling, used all silks and straight quilting lines to give it a wonderfully soft hand.
I wanted to make the back a little less serious, but still evocative of the color field painters, and so I continued the geometric patterns and swaths of colour, but added a little "wonk" to make sure we all knew it was designed in 2010. :s:
And then I was done - I'd made what I hoped was a truly contemporary quilt - one that was "of the moment".
If you'd like to see my entries in previous Blogger's Quilt Festivals, you can see my entry in Amy's very first festival (and the third quilt I ever made!)
here, and my second entry last fall,
here.
Check out all the participants in the festival and their quilts by clicking on the button linky below:
And don't forget!
In February you can purchase Amy's highly anticipated,
sure to be fabulous new
book: just in time to make something from it
for the Bloggers' Quilt Festival in Spring, 2011!
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