The Art Quilts Around the World challenge this round was "Structure".
This could be so many different things, but I immediately thought about architectural structures (although I did briefly toy with an idea of rock structures found in nature).
I landed on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. When I lived there, I always enjoyed driving across that bridge and even made a walk across it once. During that walk I took some great shots of the framework of the bridge, and that became the impetus for my piece:
This could be so many different things, but I immediately thought about architectural structures (although I did briefly toy with an idea of rock structures found in nature).
I landed on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. When I lived there, I always enjoyed driving across that bridge and even made a walk across it once. During that walk I took some great shots of the framework of the bridge, and that became the impetus for my piece:
I decided that I would do a white border (although I'm not thrilled with the actual binding) to hark back to the old school pictures that would have white borders around them. I didn't do a lot of quilting on this piece as I really wanted the fabric to speak for itself (and trust me this sky around San Francisco will look very similar to this). Other than the binding, I couldn't be happier with this....and in creating this, it gave me some ideas on how to translate photographs into quilts.
Every one of these challenges is an opportunity for me to learn something new and to add to my repertoire....bring on the next challenge!
Every one of these challenges is an opportunity for me to learn something new and to add to my repertoire....bring on the next challenge!
