As many of you know, I've been working on a series of liturgical inspired quilts for a long time (over 10 years) and am nearing the end of the series. To be honest, I say that, but probably there will be a phase 2 if I had to guess, I love making them, and I have more in my brain to come I think.
Anyway, I started this is one over Thanksgiving last year at my mom's. She's been doing a bunch of truly amazing block printing and block carving, and I wanted to try some myself, especially with the idea to make some tesselating patterna. However when I got to her house, I realized I could just start with this block I'd already carved back over a decade ago in a Jean Wells Keenan workshop. It started out rectangular, but I cut off the corners to make a 60 degree diamond and then used the little cut-off bits to fill in the small 60 degree triangle.
This is the pattern the diamond block made.
I decided to print on one of my pieces of shiny white polyester (thanks Georgia!) The printing colors gradient shifted from blue in the middle to purple around the outer edge. My printing is not lined up well, that's definitely something that takes tons of practice.
The outer diamonds are going to be filled with the words "Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison, Kyrie Eleison" rotating around, so I carved those word blocks, and then printed them when I was back in New Mexico over Christmas.
Come back later this week to see the finished piece, and in the meantime, please enjoy this fantastic hand embroidered sheep my mom made many years ago. Every time I walk down the hallway I want to scratch his nose!!
I love getting to do so many fun artistic explorations when I'm at my mom's!
