Love encompasses so much of life and motivates us in many ways. Everyday we use symbols to tell people we love them in texts, letters and notes. For this challenge the plan was to use the symbols and colours of love to create fabric that would convey the same message.
The traditional colour of love is red, this together with it's complementary colour set the colour scheme and then stylised imagery was added.
These presented challenges, as a way of creating a stencil with small crosses and circles, various stamps for trialling and making a grid for the stamping had to be devised. Who said love was easy?
It all went well until the heart motif turned out to be upside down once the excess fabric was cut away. The choice was then leave the quilt in this state or cut it away and redesign with the left over bits of fabric. The perfect grid was a thing of the past, but it has character and imperfection, just like love.
Beautiful work
ReplyDeleteAs always, a well thought out idea and beautifully presented!
ReplyDeleteI really don't see any imperfections, as you call them, Margy. Instead, I see a lovely and creative quilt! I can't imagine how you created all the different hearts for the background! I think this is great.
ReplyDeleteTaking those 'aargh!' moments and making them into 'aah' moments is the skill of a true artist! Great combo of colours and stencils in the background and gorgeous centrepiece.
ReplyDeleteExquisite little pieces of colour wrapped up in love.
ReplyDeleteMargy, the colours in this are just gorgeous! I think that whatever you perceived to have gone 'wrong' turned out for the best - I love it!
ReplyDeleteYour work is beautiful. The many different hearts of the background are interesting.
ReplyDeleteA lovely love piece. Great color combination and I like those different background stenciled and stamped harts very much.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful work and concept, Margy.
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