Experimental Art Quilt
Well this art quilt started out as an experiment. One evening I was cleaning up and found several strips of batting that I used to test paints on. I have a joining stitch on my sewing machine I've never used and decided to butt the pieces up together and join them. That turned out to be a wonderful way to piece batting with no thick seams. I ended up with a nice flat abstract background piece.
12"x19" unmounted
I then decided to take a digital photo of a Climatis Vine flower and manipulate it a couple of ways in Corel Photo Paint and resize it different sizes and print it out on digital silk fabric. I fused it to some thin interfacing and cut them out and fused and appliqued them onto the background. Also added three extra pieces of painted batting blocks before placing the flowers. I then free motion stitched leaves and swirls and overpainted the leaves and added a little more paint here and there. I also sewed on a few gold beads in the centers of the flowers since the batting fabric is quite dull it needed a little bling. After I could do no more I decided to try sewing the piece to a stretched canvas that I had painted to match the color scheme. I hand sewed around the outside edge. It was easier than I thought it would be to sew through the canvas.
Climatis Vine 18 x 24 mounted on stretched canvas
Detail of digital appliques and joining stitching on batting
I thought the techniques used in this art quilt were quite successful. I wasn't real happy with the color scheme even though it turned out to be a triad (Red Violet, Blue Green, & Yellow Orange). I will probably try dyeing some battling with a plan in mind and piecing it in the same manner. I like the way the batting can be pieced by just joining the sections rather then seaming the sections. I think I will try this method using a curvilinear design next time. You can learn alot by just experimenting!!!
12"x19" unmounted
I then decided to take a digital photo of a Climatis Vine flower and manipulate it a couple of ways in Corel Photo Paint and resize it different sizes and print it out on digital silk fabric. I fused it to some thin interfacing and cut them out and fused and appliqued them onto the background. Also added three extra pieces of painted batting blocks before placing the flowers. I then free motion stitched leaves and swirls and overpainted the leaves and added a little more paint here and there. I also sewed on a few gold beads in the centers of the flowers since the batting fabric is quite dull it needed a little bling. After I could do no more I decided to try sewing the piece to a stretched canvas that I had painted to match the color scheme. I hand sewed around the outside edge. It was easier than I thought it would be to sew through the canvas.
Climatis Vine 18 x 24 mounted on stretched canvas
Detail of digital appliques and joining stitching on batting
I thought the techniques used in this art quilt were quite successful. I wasn't real happy with the color scheme even though it turned out to be a triad (Red Violet, Blue Green, & Yellow Orange). I will probably try dyeing some battling with a plan in mind and piecing it in the same manner. I like the way the batting can be pieced by just joining the sections rather then seaming the sections. I think I will try this method using a curvilinear design next time. You can learn alot by just experimenting!!!
Posted by lpcolor at 8/5/2009 2:30 PM 
Categories: Fabric Collage, Digital Printing on fabric, fusing, Applique
Tags: mounting on stretched canvas joining batting batting Corel Photo Paint
Categories: Fabric Collage, Digital Printing on fabric, fusing, Applique
Tags: mounting on stretched canvas joining batting batting Corel Photo Paint
Interesting! Very creative.
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