Unbelievably, I finished a FFFC Challange piece on time- with minutes to spare! We were to make a quilt in a monochramatic palette, using value as the main design element. only a small bit of complimentary or analogous color. We were also to use a song title or lyrics as inspiration. This has been a real growing experience for me, as I usually have an idea of sorts, or just start cutting and piecing. It takes thinking differently to do a piece within specific parameters.
The song it is based on, is "Blue Skies" by Point of Grace, from the album "Free to Fly". It popped into my head when the theme was released. The song reminds us that even though rain, clouds, dark nights, etc. can get you down, hope in God is like Blue Skies. Some days that is all that gets me through, that there will be hope, joy, and blue skies again.
Blue is one of my favorite colors- pink is favorite, but no song with pink came to mind except "Pink Cadillac", and I'm not really into cars. On this monitor, the dark blues seem to run together. The foreground is an attempt at showing the view from a window of the rolling mountains,to the south of where we live. The sun coming up and the bright rays reaching up, and out. I used a sparkly fabric for some or the rays, and pastels to tone down some areas. The edge from the pale yellow to lighter blues was too sharp, so I gathered white tulle in the corner and let the folds create more sunrays. Clear beads add some sparkle, and soften the edge more.
I know there are some sharp contrasts in the wrong places, but it is a beginning. This year IS "my leap off the deep end", so I want to be able to work and grow in different areas.
Pardon any typo's I missed- DH and I have spent the weekend in bed……with severe colds or flu…..NOT FUN, and I feel I'm propping myself up to type.
I am a former textile artist and new pattern designer with a degree in horticulture, wishing to share my love of nature, flowers and gardens with everyone through my photos, sunprinted fabrics, and now pattern designs. Chronic Lyme Disease has caused major changes to the direction my life. I have to limit the amount of time spent digging in my gardens, and quilting has become more difficult. I discovered pattern design as a way to get art back into my life. I now use my gardens and photos to inspire designs that can be used on fabrics and print on demand items.
