Our very first Material Collage End Line put up debuted on August 27, 2016—we are actually previous the 100 put up mark for that weblog class. Every of the posts function colourful and fabulous accomplished collage quilts by you, my college students and readers, as a technique to share your work with others.
Nevertheless as I look again on the sooner End Traces, I see how I actually packed within the submissions—14 quilts within the first End Line alone—what was I considering? Now that Tom and I’ve a couple of extra years of weblog expertise beneath our belts, we understand that’s too many quilts to actually recognize all that art work in a single chunk.
So… beginning on this week, I’m breaking apart a few of these early End Line posts into smaller Throwback Thursday collections—the higher for the person collage quilts to shine and the artists to strut their stuff.
Please savor immediately’s Throwback Thursday put up—Portraits: Individuals and a Pet—the primary of three curated groupings chosen from “The End Line: Accomplished Scholar Work 1” (August 27, 2016).
As at all times, I invite anybody who want to share their very own completed material collage quilt to click on on the button under for extra info. Your artwork, creativity, and tales are tremendously appreciated by all. Thanks.
Kate Groves
Started January 2016: Quilting within the Desert, Phoenix, AZ
Kate Groves arrived to class with a photograph of a favourite Gustave Klimt portray. I completely love Klimt as nicely—and have without end been impressed by his coloration and pattern-rich art work—which made it all of the extra enjoyable to assist Kate together with her rendition.
I keep in mind how Kate quietly labored away on this small homage that appears to specific her personal interior world as a lot as Klimt’s.
Beth Johnson
Started April 2016: Quilting Adventures, Schulenburg, TX
Beth Johnson moved proper alongside on this portrait of her grandson. The unique picture pictured him on his drums, however that will have made his face fairly small within the general design. She determined to deal with simply the face. I feel she captured his inventive spirit together with her very inventive strategy with coloration and sample.
Beth wrote: “I made a decision to ship it to my grandson for his twelfth birthday. He declared it was “superior”! He’s nonetheless speaking about it. I knew he would haven’t any hassle with the intense colours! Now I suppose I must do one for my granddaughter!”
Quin Brannaka
Started October 2015: Leaf Peepers Quilt Retreat, Harpswell, ME
I had the pleasure of getting each Quin Brannaka and her mother, Tracey Noviello, at my Maine October Quilt Retreats two years in a row. I’ve identified Tracey for perhaps twenty years from after we lived in New Hampshire. Quin and my son Sam have been early playground playmates at about 1-1/2 years outdated every. She is now a beautiful and gifted younger girl.
Quin started this solar face in my 2014 Maine Retreat. She completed it off in a really imaginative approach by printing a narrative she had written onto canvas because the background. She then highlighted particular quotes from that story and offered the piece as a present to a really particular trainer of hers.
In 2015, Quin got here ready to start her highschool senior challenge—a self portrait utilizing material as an inventive medium.
Quin selected quite a lot of greens to explain herself and confirmed a present for working with values of coloration in addition to utilizing the designs within the material to assist create her kind.
The completed presentation for her senior challenge—”Zaia”. Quin displayed progress pictures alongside aspect the unique black and white picture enlargement to inform the story of her inventive course of.
Technically, this isn’t but a “completed” quilt [as of 2016]. The black background remains to be being thought of and it nonetheless must be quilted. I made a decision to incorporate it although, as a result of it finishes a significant stage of Quin’s life; evolving from highschool into the following a part of her journey. She is going to quickly be setting off on a gap-year journey, backpacking by means of Europe with a good friend. Bon voyage, Quin!
Samantha Leonard
Started July 2015: The Quilt Gallery, Kalispell, MT
Samantha Leonard works on the Quilt Gallery in Kalispell, so I obtained to see her once more this yr throughout my annual trek to Montana, in addition to having her as a pupil in final yr’s class. She’s such a pleasing individual and is sort of taken by this material collage course of. She has yet one more piece to complete up and present me.
A post-bath brushing gave Sam sufficient of Chico’s fur to lure beneath the lacy “rug” beneath Chico’s toes, above.
A parting reward from Sam to me was this collaged reminder (under) of what I attempt to impart to my college students (and a slogan in my Serendipity Quilts guide): “Minimize Free and Let Go!”
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