Still on my 'Pathways' theme, I had an idea for a quilt about weather so I gathered up some sky fabric, painted some more and waited for inspiration. Since I often think in terms of music, soon the words "through all kinds of weather" came to mind - and my quilt became about relationships (this is how my mind works).
I started piecing skies with sunrise, blue skies, starry skies, sunsets and storms. I used a mix of cottons, organza and painted satin (with ranger dyes). The cottons were painted with my usual water soluble crayons, watercolour pencil crayons and setacolours. I added a kind of rainbow pathway with painted satin and cut some pink and gold organza, fused it with misty fuse and created a soft morning sun. After stitching it all together I added black couched cord around each piece for a stained glass look. Next I will add two small black silhouettes of a couple along the pathway and embroider some lightning in the sharp-edged stormy segments. Now I am trying to decide whether to add any quilting or just frame it as it is. Also how to frame it - possibly with sky fabric or black binding? I'll need to do some thinking and audition some fabric before I go any further. If I use sky fabric I will add black binding as an inside frame. It might even be interesting to mat it and frame it under glass. I think I will call it "Through All Kinds of Weather: The Relationship Path". Maybe it should end with a question mark. What do you think?
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