Saturday, August 18, 2012

Reading-In a Design in Fabric



For years I have been "reading-in" a design in fabric.  I never really thought much about it...until I received a birthday postcard from my friend and fellow quilt artist, Liz Broussard.  I love it!  She took a piece of marbelized fabric she created on a play day at my beach cabin, read-in a design, bound it with her signature painted coffee filters and sent it to me.

"Flower Pops" 4" x 6"
Elizabeth Ann Broussard

I did much the same thing when I created what I thought to be an unsuccessful monoprint with weak stamp impressions.  When I finished it, it became this year's donation to Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative, representing the slow erosion and fading away of the mind that is the face of this terrible disease.

                                          "Shades of Gray" 8 1/2" x 9"


  

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3 comments:

  1. Linda Teddlie MintonAugust 18, 2012 at 9:41 AM

    Connie,I hadn't thought of it as "reading-in", but it's a really good description. I love both examples of it.

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    1. Connie Marie FahrionAugust 19, 2012 at 7:59 PM

      Thanks, Linda...It is something I do frequently. I get a lot of my ideas for a finished piece that way.

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  2. Mary Ann LittlejohnAugust 24, 2012 at 11:03 AM

    The artists' eye for design at work here.

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