Art Quilt: Follow

Some quilts start with a plan. Some start with a vague idea. Some start with a kind of impulse but no plan. This quilt was the latter. I had spent an evening studying a book of works by artist Hannelore Baron, intrigued by the aesthetic, and then fixated on a tiny image in one of her painted and printed assemblages. It was egg-shaped and looked like it had been printed from threads wrapped around an object. My quilt then followed my interest and exploration of printing with a Gelli plate from discarded threads from my thread cup. I wrote about this process in 2015 (!), almost exactly ten years ago to date, here.

Follow

33.5"w x 24"h (84 cm x 61 cm)

Linen, cotton; monotypes; raw-edge appliqué; hand and machine quilted

This time I used Golden (no relation) Open Acrylics and printed on cotton and linen scraps.

I was going to cut up some black scraps to print on, but when I lay them on my ironing board to smooth them out I liked the shapes too much as they were.

Follow came together bit by bit, as if I had a beam of light focused in the dark and discovered an attic with one surprise, then another. It's much different from my previous quilts, I'm aware of that. But it was very satisfying to make. The quilt came alive on its own: a surprise to me.