The task lighting over the needle on my sewing machine is so nice and bright it washes out photos I try and take at night. But that's a good thing! I can see clearly where I'm going as I freemotion quilt. This is a wet cyanotype/solarfast print of some Queen Anne's lace flowers. I was doing the first round of quilting on them, as I designed and constructed the top for my latest work, Heat Index.
Above are parts of it pinned up on a design wall. The silks shown in the
last post have been strip pieced, cut up, and are being sewn together in sections, framing the panels. The prints are so gorgeous and complex I wanted to keep the sashing relatively simple so as to enhance but not distract.
While all of this was going on, I prepped a piece of fabric for the backing. The back isn't normally visible when the work is on display, but I consider it part and parcel of the work, and I makes me happy to have something interesting back there as I spend hours and hours quilting it. So I as I often do, I put a big piece of cotton sateen on my driveway and poured textile paints over it in a semi-random fashion.
I then misted it with the hose, to let the colors move and blend. As the fabric dries in the sun, the paint continues to move about.
That fabulous crackle in the finished backing fabric is the imprint of all the surface cracks in the driveway.
Up next, the big reveal! As always, thanks for reading and commenting.
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