Sunday, September 15, 2013

Andrea's Green


"Page 7"

screened, fused cotton, machine stitched


I knew as soon as I heard the theme that I wanted to use it as both the color and the word.  I love working with text and this allowed me to include a dictionary definition which came from Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, published by the G. & C. Merriam Company 1963.  My next thought was of the pair of bright green shoes that I bought in Paris in 1967.  I now had a concept of the images that I wanted to work with but needed to come up with a context to put them in.  The idea of a children's coloring book emerged.  If I were to design a coloring book it would be shoe-themed, and this quilt is what the "green" page might look like.  My original plan was to include a "flat" green crayon, but then started to play with making a 3 dimensional one.  After a few attempts, I finally constructed a crayon that I was happy with, but then thought that there was too much green ( sorry Nedra! ), so decided that the quilt "needed" a purple one instead.  


background stitching


16 comments:

  1. Love the coloring book idea!! You always manage to work your favorite things into your pieces, shoes and purple:) Love how you achieved the "coloring" effect of the images and the unexpected purple crayon!! Clever idea once again.

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  2. I knew that your background was going to be white because you mentioned that to me in an email, and I was most curious about just WHY. Now I know! I absolutely love the concept of a coloring book page, and I think you need to put together 26 quilts like this and publish it as a book--a book of quilts, not a coloring book. But back to this quilt--every aspect of it is amazing, and my comments are getting to be too long, so I'll just say--Super Job! (P. S. Love the background quilting!)

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  3. What a fun quilt! I love everything about your art. The illustration of a coloring book page was inspired! Wonderful!

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  6. I didn't really expect anything less than green & purple! Nice job!

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  7. Great Job I don't know what I am doing wrong by my comments are getting deleted when I try to correct a typo Sorry....

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  8. Andrea...this is funny. Our Journal Quilt Connection has the theme shoes and I am eager to start. We used the same colors also. Great minds!

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  9. Andrea, this is such a FUN quilt! I love the multiple items you incorporated - the definition, the green shoes, the purple crayon and the "Paris, 1987" inside the shoe. I agree with Alice, you should do a book with different shoes for each color in a Crayon package!

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    1. Thanks Carolyn, that WOULD be a fun project! Right now am thinking about making myself a whole box of "soft crayons".

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  10. How did you construct the crayon? It is Awesome! This would be a fun coloring book, but having it already colored is perfect. So much fun stuff to look at!

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  11. Thanks Judy...this was the 5th or 6th crayon construction! I will take a photo of the screens and crayon pattern that I made, but basically
    I screened a large purple rectangle, then screened the black squiggle and crayola logo. I then traced around my crayon-shaped pattern, cut out the front and a back ( no logo ), stitched right sides together,
    turned inside out and stuffed. I tried not to overstuff, because I wanted to flatten it a bit for the quilt. My original idea was to sew the crayon on the quilt, but too many layers with Wonder Under prevented that, so I ended up glueing on with Aleene's Tacky fabric glue.

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    1. WHOOPS...sorry Judy, the above is the reply to your question!
      I guess I hit comment instead of reply.

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  12. This quilt is so much fun and the crayon is amazing - thanks for sharing the construction details. I do think this would make a great page in a color book - or a block in a bigger quilt all dedicated to the alphabet or to color. I do like the way you used the text elements

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  13. Your composition and finishing details compliment each other beautifully. I'm impressed with how nicely you pulled all the design elements from your head onto the finished piece. Your purple crayon rocks! What a fun first page to the quilted coloring book you are well on your way to creating. KUDOS Andrea. :D

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  14. Andrea, what a great idea of the coloring book page. It even has a page number! I want to come to your house to play with screening on fabric! Love the contrast of purple with the green shoes.

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