Monday 14 October 2013

Natures Face Art squares ...the quilt top emerges

Gerhard Hillman creates beautiful pieces of fabric manipulating digital images of the natural world in and around far north Queensland. Natures Face Art is Gerhard's business - from where I acquired a number of patches in 2012. I've often pulled them out of my stash and wondered how they could be incorporated into a quilt without being overwhelmed or swamped by the additional fabrics. Our October retreat was where they were combined with my hand dyed, printed and rubbed fabrics using a log cabin block - and we left the blocks on the design wall overnight while the final configuration was "ummed" and "aghhed". Do I mention having to reverse sew it twice ..... as I unpicked the first line of wrongly placed sashing, a dear friend was heard to say something like "don't you hate it when you re-sew something and you put it back wrong .. again!". Well ... the second time I unpicked it no one said anything. At last there was a last column of sashing to attach ... and now to contemplate how to quilt ... many thanks Gerhard for your beautiful fabrics and photographs.




4 comments:

Sue Dennis said...

Gerhard's fabric is lovely and you are making it sing! Love the final sashing colour.

jan said...

Looks great Ali. Love the colour combinations.

Anonymous said...

Fabulous way to use his gorgeous fabric. You have a great way with colour
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Judy said...

YUM