Wild Color Wheel
Would you just look at this colorful mess? My color wheel exploded! Thanks to unpredictable Yellow going wild. Yellow is always causing so much trouble. She knows how beautiful and irresistible she is and she flaunts it. She has taken over several of my projects; I don’t like to admit that she ruined them, but you have to keep Yellow on a tight rein because a little goes a long way.
This project happened in stages. I did the zen doodles with black scribble paint one session. It sat for a few months then I fused on the color wheel, except my yellow fabric ended up with the fusible on the wrong side so I had no yellow. It was sat for another month and then with pens and pencils I began coloring in the doodles. It seemed that Yellow took off on a tangent of her own. Then the last stage, which happened to be on July 4th, I added a few flowers to Yellow and quilted the doodles. The outside edges are bound with a zigzag stitch. I had so much fun making this piece! This was all about playing and having fun with simple tools.
This also looks like PacMan; so we could say that PacMan went wild in my studio, eating up all the fabric.
Dee … I LOVE how you "personified" YELLOW ! What an interesting character she's turning out to be.. although a bit mischievous :-D
ReplyDeleteAlso loved how you Zen-doodled your designs, and how (like so many of us....) you got the fusible on the wrong side of the fabric (How many times have I done exactly the same thing … arghhhh !)
Great quilt - thanks for sharing !
Dee, there's so much to love about your quilt! I love how graphic and eye-catching it is, but reading your narrative really made me smile. I absolutely love the humor. And the notion of yellow taking over is depicted beautifully, but truly in quilting, it so often happens that yellow does take over a quilt. I remember one of the first pieces of quilting advice I ever got was this: Use a little yellow in every quilt. I pretty much abided by that advice for a long time. And even now, all these quilting years later, when I see that a quilt needs a bit of oomph, then I find ways to use some yellow!
ReplyDeleteOMG! This is sooooo good, I can’t believe it. Just wow!
ReplyDeleteYou need to make a large one and enter in Houston!
ReplyDeleteI love it!!
Wowie Dee! This is so much FUN! I love your PAC MAN and the wild yellow! And your doodles are amazing. I'm with Gail. Make a larger one and enter it!!! Love it so much!
ReplyDeleteGail has really hit the nail on the head with her comment! A larger quilt with this design needs to be entered in Houston in the "Whimsical" category!
ReplyDeleteLove it! This made me smile on how serendipitous your quilt came about. Things that go wrong and turn out right and better are my favorite! I like the added touch of the flowers in the yellow and the chicken in the red. So much to look at and discover! Fun! Fun! Fun!
ReplyDeleteI have a phrase I use a lot to my students. "Grieve and move on"! Great example of it!!!
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