Structures #47 - making progress
I’ve started inserting the small strips into the blocks. I start in one corner and work my way across the quilt, adding the lines to each block one at a time. I spend the time to make each block beautiful as it stands on it’s own, in addition to considering the location of the block within the entire quilt when choosing colors and placement of the lines.
I can piece between 6 and 10 of these blocks per hour so it will take several weeks to complete the piecing of the individual blocks. After this is finished I will construct the quilt top by sewing all of the blocks together in a single competition.
My work is about fences and stone walls, as my motif, which is very similar to an E, is in fact a design inspired from my father’s backyard fence. Humans use these structures to keep out danger, but we also build fences to keep our true selves hidden from friends, family, lovers and even ourselves. As I construct my artwork my thoughts are often on these topics as I watch the very open and free background colors become trapped and fragmented behind the bars and lines that mark my boundaries.
Structures #47 © 2005 - in progress
Detail of the sewing
Posted by Lisa in: Quilting Process
Diane said,
June 15, 2005 @ 11:16 am
I love this piece, and I really appreciate your showing your progress. I learn so much when I see how someone whose work I admire does it! Thanks for sharing this!
Gerrie said,
June 16, 2005 @ 10:00 am
I get so excited when I see quiters work in progress and the process. Thanks you for doing this. I took a class from Sandi Cummings where I did a lot of the insertion piecing. But you have taken it to a whole new level.
Alison Schwabe said,
June 16, 2005 @ 10:56 am
OMG, I must confess that even after meeting you (Rooted in Tradition) I hadn’t given serious consideration as to how you might work your pieces but seeing this one started gives real insight.
Looking at the ones further down, a couple of them strike me as really heavy in mood, so could you say mood influences your colour choices, and, if it does, and your mood lifts during a piece, do you modify the colours, or put one aside until you are in ‘that’ mood again?
jpsam said,
June 17, 2005 @ 7:50 pm
This is wonderful. I love the insertions and I love the color palette.