Since becoming a Kreinik designer last fall I have worked on several pieces using their wonderful threads. The pink shoe piece (Boogie Shoes), the coral reef (Octopus’ Garden) and generally playing and planning on what to do next (I really want to recreate Birds’ Eye View using the wonderful Kreinik braids) .
One piece which has been in process since early December was finally finished last week. Sometimes it goes like that, where I start a piece and have a lot of excitement and desire to see the completed piece, but then something else equally as shiny and attractive comes along, and so the original piece patiently waits on the design wall for me to come back around to it.
Last week I was avoiding working on another piece which was giving me trouble, so it was easy to pick this piece back up and put the finishing touches on it.
Twelve Step, 2011, 54” H x 41.25” W Hand-dyed cottons from Diane Eyerman , hand-painted and silkscreened twill, commercial cotton, Quilter’s Dream Green batting , thread from Kreinik and Madeira. This piece will be on exhibit at the Parkersburg Art Center during the month of June 2011.
In this detail you can see the sparkle from the Kreinik machine threads that I used for the swirl quilting and for the buckles on the shoes. The fish are a design I made, turned into a Print Gocco silkscreen.
I liked how the figure and ground relationship changed with the different hues of blue. This helped to accentuate the swimming feeling I wanted from this piece.
Another detail of the thread and the fish. I loved how our fabrics worked so well together, even though they were created months and miles apart from each other.
In Wednesday’s post, I am very excited to host *the* Crafty Chica, Kathy Cano Murillo, who will answer my question about how she changes gears between working on her wonderful art and writing her lively novels. I will be reviewing her latest novel Miss Scarlet’s School of Patternless Sewing and there will be a giveaway for two lucky readers!
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