Pointillism
Marie Lewis
Has anyone ever attempted a pointillist quilt?
If so, how did they go about it?
Marie
Marie Lewis
Stephen and Melissa Jones
Marie,
I have not tried it, but would assmume you would do it in a similar
way as watercolor quilts. Cut out 1"-2" squares and arrange them into
your picture. If you wanted it to really look like pointillism you could
make tiny yo-yos in solid colors and make your picture.
Melissa J
tyrone grantham
Marie Lewis <da...@nodanw.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Has anyone ever attempted a pointillist quilt?
>If so, how did they go about it?
>Marie
>Marie Lewis
Marie, If anyone tells you how to do this please let me know. I
guess I would cut 1" squares and do something like watercolour.
Maureen
John Musselwhite
I have thought about this too. I went to the store and collected a
bunch of fabrics with a black background and a different color and size
of polka dots on each. My idea was that i would cut different chunks of
each and the picture could flow from one color to the next. This
project, however, is still in the aforementioned fabric storage though.
I wanted to make an hourglass with a young woman in one end of it slowly
dissolving into dust dropping into the other end. It was too obscure
for most of the people I showed it to so it remains ON FILE.
My DH says I need to get off the internet or he will sell my Bernina to
get another computer so he can use it. I told him that he was the one
that wanted me to get excited about this. Oh well,
Phebe
sarah curry smith
I started one 7 years ago (of course, 7 years ago, I'd been quilting for
less than a year and I hadn't yet even graduated from "Rail Fence" and
"Double Irish Chain" planned-quilts, and my stash was but a gleam in my
eye (it now covers a wall and a half)), saying, prophetically, that it
would take "at least five years" to finish it. I started with a general
idea, sketched that, and then put it (more or less -- patience is not my
strong point) onto that weeny little 10-to-the-inch graph paper.
The notion was an enormous flower garden, with sky and spikes of
wild-colored flowers (reds and oranges and yellows and purples and all
shades in between) shooting up into the sky in a big "bank" of flowers
behind, and then a more sedate (more pastel) bank of shorter flowers in
front, and then a wind-ey path (with some rocks) in front of that. 1"
squares (they started as 1 1/2" ones, end up as 1"). And I sewed, and
sewed, and got tired of it, and have put it away more times than I've
gotten it out (did I mention that I decided to make a KING-SIZED quilt
top, of 1" squares????).
Periodically, I get it out (although I still always cut a few 1
1/2" squares off every 1 1/2" strip of fabric I cut from every piece of
fabric I buy, even the fat quarters -- the strips become
drop-dead-gorgeous log cabin blocks, when I go on a weekend sewing binge
and am not emotionally/psychologically able to handle anything harder
than straight seams), and I sew some more of those tiny bits together --
and yes, it is growing. The sky is pretty much complete. The path is
just great. The "spikes" of flowers are now in need of reconstruction,
because I have so many, many, BETTER fabrics than I did 8 years ago, so
I'll have to think about that. I'll have the hardest time with the
"front" flowers (My mother is "pastel" -- I am not). But it does make
progress. If I ever finish it (and I will ... but not tomorrow, or even
next year), it will be spectacular -- and it will weigh 150 pounds, just
the top.
I've learned so far:
1) Have a LOT of fabrics to choose from, and use them all;
2) Spend more time PLANNING than I did;
3) Start SMALLER than I did;
4) Stitch more precisely than I did (I've used 3 different
machines, beginning with my grandmother's 1924 Singer, and my seams are
not always 1/4" -- and that will be a problem, when I really have to put
the separate parts of this puzzle together).
5) Understand that 1/3 of your patches (more, if you start with
1" squares) will be SEAMS -- this is gonna be HEAVY, even if it's
little -- and think about that, especially if it's going to be a
wall-hanging.
The name of this quilt? Couldn't be anything other than
"Monet's Grandmother's Flower Garden" :-)
And enjoy.
Marie Lewis
In article <32D1C2...@zianet.com>, sarah curry smith
<scu...@zianet.com> writes
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>I started one 7 years ago The notion was an enormous flower garden, with sky and spikes of
I applaud you and shall keep your post!
Marie
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Marie Lewis
ver...@aol.com
Several years ago in the Maryland Historical Society museum in Baltimore,
I saw an exhibition of magnificent crazy quilts. One of the quilts,
however, was not "crazy," but it had been made in the same time period.
It looked as if someone had taken an old Berlin work graph and following
the graph with one inch squares instead of a stitch made a HUUUUUGE rose
in bloom. That quilt has been in my head ever since and someday I will
find a wonderful cross stitch graph and make just such a flower in one
inch squares. Verdi
qlt...@aol.com
Verji, Was that the Grace Snyder quilt of a china pattern? Somewhere I
have notes and pics of GS with her quilt which contained over 83,000 tiny
squares !!!! GS appeared at a show in OR or WA and i saw her there in
about '81 or '82 AMAZING!
But I'll never do one <G>. Lynn
Jack Campin
Not a quilt, but a similar idea - a while ago I saw an exhibition of work
by an avant-garde British photographer (I think it was Helen Chadwick, who
died about a year ago). One of her pictures was a big flower image,
entirely made up of tiny instant-booth photographs of herself - different
poses, in different coloured clothes and nude. I seem to remember there
were a lot of textures made from photos of just her hands.
Some of David Hockney's pictures also piece photographs together like a
quilt, but his idea isn't to make a mosaic picture out of them so much as
to tell a story using many different viewpoints on the same scene.
Something for the photo-transfer folks to try?
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Ann Durbin
I saw this technique on a quilt in the San Diego quilt show - what
looked like a smallish cross stitch pattern had been rendered in 1" or
2" blocks to make about a six-foot square of a bulldog's face. No
kidding. Personally I'd rather see a rose in bloom... but it WAS
very striking!
Ann
Steve and Terri
Ann Durbin (dur...@pacbell.net) wrote:
: I saw this technique on a quilt in the San Diego quilt show - what
: looked like a smallish cross stitch pattern had been rendered in 1" or
: 2" blocks to make about a six-foot square of a bulldog's face. No
: kidding. Personally I'd rather see a rose in bloom... but it WAS
: very striking!
Someone else used this technique to make a counted cross-stitch design
from Lavender & Lace (I think it's called The Bride) into a quilt. The
results was stunning -- it was hung in the Houston show in 1994, and I
think it's been touring one place or another since. (I hear now and then
of someone else who's seen it.)
(BTW, the quilt that won the 1996 Hoffman Challenge was adapted from
another cross-stitch design from Lavender & Lace called The Quiltmaker.
It used a different technique, though...)
Terri
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Terri Carl
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mand...@aol.com
I'm not sure if I'm doing this right so bear with me. I saw a quilt at a
show last year that was all in red and white, and looked abstract from a
distance, but like a woman at her spinning wheel up close- it kind of
reminded me of those 3d eye puzzles that were everywhere for a couple of
years. I think I have a photo of it somewhere, but no uploading
capability. E-mail me if you're interested. Michele