I've recently signed up for DMTV and have been inspired by some of the videos I have watched. If you have never seen or heard of these excellent videos, have a look at Design Matters website which is run by the very talented Linda and Laura Kemshall.
I have long been an admirer of their work and inspired by their use of quilting which is often much more dense that I would ever do! I also love the printed fabrics that Laura sells under Fingerprint Fabrics. I have purchased some in the past at FOQ and have recently bought a couple of pieces of map fabrics for using in my "Seen From Above" series.
One of the videos I was inspired by was about using your own printing blocks to create first papers and then fabrics to use in collage.
So using the map fabric - an old map of London - and some simple stamp made with foam blocks, I created two collages in my sketchbook which I then translated into small quilts using my own dyed fabrics which I had printed. The use of a rectangle for the stamps was to reflect the buildings which would be seen on a map of a different scale.
On the first one I quilted around the rectangles and then bit the bullet and did some much more dense free quilting on the map area. I left a couple of areas unquilted for variety. As with my earlier quilt in this series, I quilted the title of the quilt on the right side which I intend to do with all my creations in this series.
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| Seen From Above - Suburbs I |
For the second one, I again quilted around the rectangles first and then machine quilted vertical lines over the map areas.
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| Seen From Above - Suburbs II |
Each quilt measures about 12" x 16".
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