this one was actually inspired by a quilt that emmy posted in her flickr but I misunderstood her directions rather I didn't see them until I had made up my own idea of how she did it.
So here is how I did it...
I cut 2 pieces of fabric the same size and put iron on interfacing backing on them. Then I layed them on top of each other and used my rotary cutter to cut them into even curcy strips. I think this is where I took a different turn (ha) I layed them all even again and now cut horizontal where I had cut vertial curvey lines.
so now I had a bunch of little puzzle pieces essentially. I ironed them down to a 3rd piece of fabric, as the backing. This method gives me a whole second set of puzzle pieces to create a mirrored version of the same thing. Because of my desired meaning for the piece I wanted the red to show through.
after the pieces were ironed down then I applique stitched down all the edges.
so for the meaning.... this is about war... the red represents the rivers of blood shed, the blue symbolizes hope for ending the war and finally the white is for peace.
I am super happy with this peace peice, and plan to use this method again...but I also plan to try the tutorial that emmy wrote too.
Sunday, April 08, 2007
peace prayers
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3 comments:
I like the red showing through, very effective. I've gotta try this! Love the blue and white, but without the red, it wouldn't have that feeling.
I like the story of how you re-invented Emmy's instructions as much as the symbolism. Plus it's great that you really like what you did - that's always the best icing on the cake :)
Hello, sorry for my bad english, bud I have to write some words. :-)
I like your "peace prayer". I made a work which was done a little bit in another way: I had 2 fabrics in the same size. One I cut horizontally (right word?), the other vertically in the same way curved like you did, but one fabric not till the border of the fabric, I left 1 inch. Then I woved the stripes horizontally and vertically together. Sewn on a batting it was a really good effect. I will make a foto an bring it in my blog.
Very nice works!
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