Harrison quilt

Although this quilt is not quilted, I have finished piecing it. I will be having it long-arm quilted. The pattern in this quilt has infinite possibilities. I learned this technique from Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr, while on a Craftsy Quilting Cruise a few weeks ago. It's a very simple technique that requires that you start with a 10 1/2" wide strip of tan fabric and a 1" inch strip of red fabric. You cut off a piece of the tan fabric in a width anywhere from 1.5" to 4.5". You can then cut that piece up into further segments, stitch the red strips onto the cut edges and reassemble the piece, and add it on to the existing strip. You could keep going forever, but I stopped at 80" long and 48" wide. I will be donating this quilt to my family for our Harrison Family Reunion coming up in 2014 to use as a fundraiser raffle quilt. I think the red strips seem to form the letter "H" in different heights, if looked at from the side, so I'm hoping that this will make a good Harrison quilt.

Infinity Spiral

This 7" quilt was supposed to show a dark square spiraling infinitely into a light center. There are actually 5 different yellow fabrics in the center, but they are almost too small to see. It didn't come out as envisioned, but it was fun to make and a surprise to see how it turned out.

Snail Flower

This was a quick piece...started and completed it tonight!

A few years ago, I created a quilt block design based on a pair of snails.  Tonight, I worked with that block in Photoshop flipping it vertically and horizontally a few times, and then printed the image on a cotton fabric sheet.  The snail part of the printed image was enhanced with free-motion thread work.

How does this relate to infinity?  It relates because the design could be continued to infinity and already travels beyond its border.

By the way, the top part of the finished piece reminds me of a flower which is how the piece got its name.

Detroit Skyline

Detail: 

A photo from a cruise on the Detroit River is in the center. I learned how to apply special effects to it  in a software program, Fabric Studio and printed it on fabric. It was hand quilted with silver thread

Here is a second version.This time I did not tile it prior to the special effects.

Infinity

My idea of infinity is the horizon line and the change of seasons. There are places in this world where the horizon is endless and it seems that one is on top of the world.

I used two pieces of kimono silk overdyed and printed, a piece of cotton ikat and a commercial sky fabric. The grid stitching is in a dark blue cotton thread; French knots in perle cotton are on the bottom left side suggesting a calendar.

This was a fun project and I'm impressed I got it done in the time frame alotted.

TRIFID NEBULA

My interpretation of infinity is outer space.  My inspiration was a photo by R. Jay GaBany. (permission granted)

"Unspeakable beauty and unimaginable bedlam can be found together in the Trifid Nebula, also known as M20.  The energetic processes of star formation create not only the colors but the chaos.  The red-glowing gas results from high-energy starlight striking interstellar hydrogen gas.  The dark dust filaments that lace it were created in the atmospheres of cool giant stars and in the debris from supernovae explosions.  Which bright young stars light up the blue reflection nebula is still being investigated.  The light we see today left perhaps 3000 years ago, although the exact distance remains unknown.  Light takes about 50 years to cross M20."

The quilt is several different layers of organzas, some of them jewel encrusted.  The nebula is constructed with hand dyed silk roving.  All is covered with tulle and then cut-out appliques of the jeweled organza in a different color are added and the stitching around them is the quilting.  Last I added more Swarovski crystals.

This is the 3rd quilt in a series of Nebulae I am working on.
The piece measures 19"x32"

Thanks Lisa for a wonderful challenge.
All comments and or critiques are welcome and appreciated.
Cherie

Challenge 79: Infinity . . . . . . . . . ...

Theme: Infinity

Host: Lisa Albanese
Art Concept: Perspective

Due Date:  March 30, 2013

My favorite number is infinity.  It goes on and on, without end, a concept of continuation more than the mind can grasp.  What is the largest number you can conceive?  Whatever it is, you can always go further.  And mathematically, you can take that infinite number and multiply it by any other number (including by infinity!) – and infinity is still what it is.  M.C. Escher provides a visual concept of the art of infinity with his tessellations and perspective – and still, does he actually achieve infinity?

Create a quilt that tries to show infinite possibilities, possibly using perspective to do this.  It may be realistic or abstract, or anywhere in the infinite spaces between reality and abstraction.

M.C. Escher:
http://www.mcescher.com/
http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/march2010/features/capturing_infinity

Definition of Perspective:
http://perspective-book.com/artist/perspective-art.html
http://www.artic.edu/aic/education/sciarttech/2d1.html

Fractal art (With the right software, you can generate a fractal image, enlarge any part of it, and get as much detail as you saw in the original – and then do it again, and again, and again . . .):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_art

http://www.abm-enterprises.net/fractals/mandelbrotgalaxywallpaper.html

http://www.alicekelley.com/

Art quilts:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pbev/2225491694/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lalouque/3317979644/in/set-72157614503820779/
http://pinterest.com/pin/7740630581616124/
http://www.andiperejda.com/studentwork.htm
http://www.annquilts.com/ArtQuilts%20Pages/naturesperspective.html
http://aquamoonartquilts.blogspot.com/2012/12/park-place-40.html

And one more note: have fun with this!