That's how long it took me to complete this latest quilt top. And I love it. After "Are You Crazy?" I felt like I was in a zone. I challenged myself to try to complete the next top in a week. It took me two, but there was just too much other stuff going on. It was actually about 80% or more done in a week.
It's not all about speed of course, it's about doing good work. But I know that for me right now it's also about just doing work, not diddling for weeks trying a dozen different options for every move.
ANYWAY, I actually really like this as-yet untitled piece. I just started out making strip piecing fabrics, knowing I wanted to use prints again, but in a somewhat less chaotic way. I made quite a few fabrics, but "cheated" by making several that were only 18 - 22" long. So what? No rules, right? After having at least ten or twelve fabrics made, I started cutting and creating units. You can't make a large number of repetitive units with short fabrics, so I found myself with a lot of different random pieces.
I was in the midst of a very complicated composition of all these different units about a week ago, when I suddenly realized that I really liked the lower left portion of the composition. And realized that (as USUAL) the composition was way too complicated and chaotic. So I just pulled off about half the "stuff" and simplified, focusing on the green "L," orange figure and lightest value upper right.
Instead of continuing the direction of "Are You Crazy?" as I'd sort of thought I would do, I ended up back in the comfort zone of strip piecing, about where I left off at the end of Lisa Call's Working In A Series last November. But what the hell, it's where I felt like being. I succeed in the goal of using the prints more subtly; they are much less of a factor here; more of a supporting role than a starring one. Just for fun, here are the two striped fabrics I used to make my strip pieced fabrics.
I was in the midst of a very complicated composition of all these different units about a week ago, when I suddenly realized that I really liked the lower left portion of the composition. And realized that (as USUAL) the composition was way too complicated and chaotic. So I just pulled off about half the "stuff" and simplified, focusing on the green "L," orange figure and lightest value upper right.
Instead of continuing the direction of "Are You Crazy?" as I'd sort of thought I would do, I ended up back in the comfort zone of strip piecing, about where I left off at the end of Lisa Call's Working In A Series last November. But what the hell, it's where I felt like being. I succeed in the goal of using the prints more subtly; they are much less of a factor here; more of a supporting role than a starring one. Just for fun, here are the two striped fabrics I used to make my strip pieced fabrics.
Only one section of the top one appears in this piece, but I have several more bits and pieces waiting around for the next piece. My goal for that is to continue working with the pieces that are left, but to focus on simpler compositions, with clear figure/ground relationships and good use of value. The one thing I have not done yet, is to look at this latest in black and white..... Will do that next!
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