Improvising with Nancy : Serendipity and the Art of the Quilt

Improvising with Nancy

July 19, 2006 5:07AM | Filed Under Education |

I arrived in Ohio safely (no more escalator episodes) and have now completed two days of my workshop with Nancy. The days are full and exhilarating so there is not much opportunity to linger on the computer back at the hotel. Nevertheless, here are some photos:

This “composition” is from one of the black and white line exercises that we did on day one:

The next task was to isolate one unit from each exercise and create a 9-plex composition in colours of our choosing:

I left the hotel in the morning with a soft neutral palette in mind. My final colour choice I suspect reflects that I haven’t had a decent night’s sleep since leaving home and was feeling kind of wired! This is not a restful quilt:

So I made a few extra units that are not so wild (or “funky” as Nancy kindly put it):

I finally slept well last night so let’s see what today brings.

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I like the funky quilt top! Enjoy your time in the states and especially with Nancy Crow!

Comment by Karoda — July 20, 2006 2:56 PM#
It’s so interesting to see what you’re doing and the examples you’re working through - thanks for the update. Sounds like such an inspiring workshop!

Comment by rooruu — July 21, 2006 4:43 PM#
I hope you are enjoying your stay in Ohio. I’m waving to you from Columbus. It is unusually hot here, as it is in much of the world.

Comment by Shelina — July 22, 2006 9:29 AM#
[...] Colour and Compositions for the Creative Quilter by Katie Pasquini Masopust and Brett Parker in an excellent introduction to basic design terminology and concepts and includes a series of lessons to put these concepts into practice. One of the exercises, Composing with Line, involves making black and white compositions by fusing black shapes onto white negative space. In a similar vein, Nancy Crow advocates that her students build up their composition skills by working in black and white fabrics before introducing colour. You can see this process at work in Robin’s recent post and you will recall that Unplugged went from this: to this: (You will can see the more details about the evolution of this quilt in this post.) [...]

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