Last fall I started a new fairly large art quilt. My goal was to create a 3D piece using a form I hadn't tried before. I wasn't sure what that was going to be exactly, but in my brain I was thinking about a 3D interpretation of an onion quilting pattern. I knew I'd need a big piece of fabric, so I pulled out this 8 yard cut I found in one of my Georgia boxes (thanks Georgia!). It was some sort of synthetic, I can't remember exactly what color it started out, but fairly pale, and with a tiny amount of texture. I folded it in half to paint like I normally do, but even so it was too big to fit on my worktable so I painted it all scrunched up. I was going for late sunset-into-night colors.
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My trusty studio helpers were along for the ride as usual.
After the paint dried, I quilted it. I used the ceiling mounted clamp system I rigged up last year; it was especially useful for this piece because the piece was so large and heavy.
You can see in this post-quilting close up the really cool pooling paint and vertical line patterns that came from the wrinkles in the fabric while painting. I love the extra texture they give the surface. As usual, I quilted in every color of the rainbow.
Here you can see the final piece all quilted. After squaring up it was eleven feet long by 44" tall.
I finished the edges by couching this delightful dark purple fuzzy yarn that some other friends destashed to me, it was such a pretty color and texture but there wasn't enough to knit with so I was glad to use it for this. It was a lot of edge, especially on my regular sewing machine.
After finishing the edges, it was time to start the sculpting process. I started by pleating, and will leave you with this until next time!
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