From a little research ….
Comes a little piece….
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| © Colleen Kole, 2013, Rooflines #9: Urban, 10×12 |
I really like the red motif on the right- the slope of the intersecting line seems like it would be fun to slide down. That is a really random Friday thought. A very small piece in anticipation of a bigger idea.
It was a slow moving process with this piece. It began as a small little idea and a small portion of this design was pinned on my wall for many months. I kept taking it down and putting it back up again and it was assuming this grandiose design idea in my head. It was taking up too much space on my wall and in my head. SO, I gave myself two weeks in January to get it done as I was very sick of this great visionary piece. Haha.
This was not your typical strip piecing. I cut each piece separately after I sewed each seam which became very time-consuming. But I really wanted to work on my line work.
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| Rooflines # 8 under construction |
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| Slow progress… |
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| Machine quilting finally |
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| ©Colleen Kole 2013, Rooflines # 8, 45x 35 |
What a good word: finished. This piece didn’t turn out like I envisioned ( maybe over thought it too much ) but there is always the next piece. And no longer than two weeks per piece seems like a really good idea!
We made it here before the big storm last week. We only received about 14 inches here in Vermont but the wind kept us inside Friday and Saturday. On Sunday I was rewarded by bright sunshine. And it didn’t take me long to strap on my snowshoes and take a two hour hike in the woods.
When I made it up the meadow and into the woods, I was amazed that no one had walked or skied on the paths yet. I walk along the cross country ski trails and in the nine years I have been walking on the paths, that has never happened before.
It was a breath-taking day in the woods. And then back to the house to play with some free motion quilting on this piece. I didn’t choose wisely with thread color but the quilting was a little easier and even felt relaxing. So many things to learn.
When I was planning out my year ahead, one of my big goals was to finish up my workshop quilts. All of them and, given the number, that would be my year. But when prompted by a reputable person (more about this later), I really didn’t have a good reason to complete workshop exercises. They were indeed exercises. And when I started taking a good hard look at the pieces, I could see how I would do each and every piece differently now. SO, I have learned from them and completing them really wouldn’t move me along any faster. I will finish some of them for purposes of learning compositionally from them and also I will use them to practice free motion quilting on. But a much smaller number of those pieces will be finished.
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| ©Colleen Kole, 2013, Rooflines # 1, 35×45 |
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| Details of Rooflines #1 |
