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How Photos Become Quilts

9/6/2015

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As I said in and earlier post, my photos are my sketchbook. They train my eye, inspire me, and are just plain fun! But I really like it when one (or more) inspire me to stitch, cut, bead, add, subtract, or whatever to them so that they may gain the textures that fiber art can bring to them. So here are a few ways that I use my photos in my fiber art.

As whole cloth ...

Sometimes the photo is printed to  become the basis for a whole cloth quilt. I loved the composition of this photo and didn't want to change a thing about that, but I wanted to add the grit and texture of a sidewalk with embellishments that included dryer lint, leaves, and found objects, as well as yards and yards of stitching. This is "Where the Sidewalk Starts"
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As the inspired beginning...

Again, I really likes the photo, but not so much the crop, so I "enlarged it" piecing other fabrics to the photo. I also let the photo inspire the directional flow of the stitches, and the type of embellishments that I would include.
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As collage...

This finish quilt "The Blue Brush" includes about seven different photos, some collaged within the initial fabric printing, and others added later. The subject matter was far less important than the colors and textures of the photos. Most importantly, the photos had to integrate with the stitching, added fabrics and each other to form a cohesive composition.
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Here are three different "auditions" for placement prior to sewing the collage together...
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britt densford
8/22/2021 02:39:19 pm

love love love your work. Teaching myself more complex layering of my photos in photoshop every day. I'm inspired by your added textures and wondering how that will impact my sensibility. Thank you for sharing your journey!

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