A combination of warm weather, new white quilters’ muslin and the knowledge that I have some dye powders that are well past their use-by date has me itching to do some fabric dyeing. But the urge to get back to some improvisational piecing is even greater. So I gave myself permission to use some fabrics that I had dyed previously to play around with some composition exercises from my workshop with Nancy Crow:
As I grappled with figure/ground concepts and trying to get interesting linear shapes, I found myself getting more tense and constrained so none of the designs became fully resolved. Instead I picked up some pieces from a previous exercise and this emerged:
Only one more sleep until the great chocolate art quilt reveal on the Twelve by Twelve blog.
kirsty says
Beautiful, Brenda! Gentle and strong at the same time.
Helen from Hobart says
You just gotta use the dark chocolate one… the lines and taste are much better than the others