Progress on the self portrait
These are a few of the "collages" for the bottom border of the self protrait. The red and orange one is a map of the USA with beads in all of the places I've lived and a little house milagro that Kate gave me from her trip to NM. The green and yellow one is my NAME. I associate a lot of my identity with my name... so here it is. And the blue one, which will get more embellishment, is a baptismal prayer from the sacrament of baptism from The Book of Common Prayer. I need to make a couple of more collages to fill up the bottom border. Possible themes: chocolate, Tridelta, Disney World.
This is the project I worked on at the quiltathon (see post below). I did all the quilting on "Spring." I turned out pretty well. Maybe I'll post a close up. I am working on a seasons series in this same style and format. Winter is done except for a bit of embellishing and I've picked out fabrics for summer. Now to bind Spring and add a bit of embellishment.
3 comments:
This sky is SOOOOOOOOOOOO much better, Deborah. It feels like sky and the design has a "wind" quality to it. I went back and looked at the other sky and it looked so heavy, not weightless as the new one does. What a difference. Also, I got to look at those terrific arches again. I couldn't post that day (blogger gremlins) and I was so irritated. They still hold up visually. I hope that you make some more. They are very symbolic and elegant looking.
Deborah - I love the way your portrait is really coming to gether! I love the added detail of the places you have lived and the baptismal one. I can't wait to see it in "person"! Do I recognize some of my hand-dyed fabric?
Your self portrait is really coming together very nicely. Like what you are doing and Sonji (who is always right, right?) is right about the sky!!
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