The Squares Series
Yesterday I posted a picture of Squares #3 so today I thought I’d post #1 and #2 as I’ve never mentioned this series.
I made #1 at the 2001 New Zealand Quilt symposium in a workshop with Sue Wademan. I don’t recall what we were supposed to be doing as I recall I didn’t really do the exercises in the 2 day class. Although it was great fun to take classes with New Zealanders. I lived in New Zealand for 5 months and the timing of the symposium just worked out for my last month in the country.
This piece uses wonder-under (or whatever the New Zealand version of this is called) to adhere the squares in place. In addition to my handdyed fabric there are some shiny slippery type fabrics, which now that I think about it might have been the exercise - to use fabrics other than cottons.
I finished the piece, by satin stitch/quilting around the shapes, a few years later and I think for a small quilt it’s not a bad composition. Reds are very hard to get accurate on a computer monitor but this is close to the actual colors (at least on my calibrated monitor).
Squares #1 ©2003 7″ x 9.5″ (wxh)
I was planning on also posting a picture of Squares #2 but at the moment I can’t find a picture of it. I made it at QSDS 2003 and then donated it for the auction that benefits scholarships to QSDS, so it’s also small, although it’s pieced. I’ll keep looking for the photo.
The small piece I’m carrying around town and seed stitch quilting is Squares #4 and it has a companion, Squares #5, that is basted and ready for quilting also.
Posted by Lisa in: Abstract Contemporary Textile Art
Valeri said,
January 15, 2006 @ 10:27 am
This is a great piece. I love the juxtoposition of the shapes and their colours.
DebR said,
January 15, 2006 @ 11:20 am
I love the layering of shape and color in Squares #1.
Sherrill Pearson said,
January 15, 2006 @ 1:39 pm
I am wondering if you use Wonder Under on a regular basis.
Always anxious to see your next quilt.
Lisa Call said,
January 16, 2006 @ 7:35 pm
Thanks everyone!
Sherrill - I don’t use wonder under much at all and infact I pretty much quit using it altogether not long after making this quilt. I did a series of stone quilts that same year and then I returned to piecing. I just prefer piecing to any other techniques.
Sherrill Pearson said,
January 17, 2006 @ 8:41 am
Thanks for the reply Lisa.
You mentioned a stone series that you did some years back - I would LOVE to see some or (an) example of that series. By the way, that seed stitching is a must try for me and I really like the colours in the Aspen piece.
Sherrill, Montreal