I made a small quilt this month. I'm calling it dream cloth.
The name comes from Paul Klee's quote about imagination that is pinned on my studio wall.
The red Japanese Azumino cotton and the pink linen have been in my stash for a couple of years. Putting them together in this piece was an impulsive decision. I didn't think about it. I reacted to the two colours together with my heart.
Hand pieced and then hand quilted.
I used big thread (pearl cotton) to quilt the star and regular hand quilting thread (black) from YIL to quilt the welsh circles and leaves in the surround.
I've been wanting to try this type of quilting for a long time.
I was glad to have it in the car when we went to Toronto to visit family in the middle of the month.
It's the same colour as my dream cloth yet with an open heart shape. She called it Loving Red.
I've admired Anna's work for a long time and am so glad to have been able to see one of her piece in real life at the World of Threads festival last fall.
Anna Wagner Ott died in her sleep on Christmas night. It was a sudden, unexpected death that shocked the textile community. I feel as if I knew her, and although we did not meet, I am so sad that we are no longer able to be inspired by her constant making. In 2022, Anna was interviewed by fibre arts take two . A tender obituary written by her daughters is on instagram, view it here.
I like January because it seems empty after the bustle of the fall and then the holidays. This January seemed especially empty for me though and I was glad to have a solid, small quilt to complete.
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| bundle of old sweaters |
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| Veiled by Anna Wagner-Ott |
4 comments:
Just simply beautiful quilting on your dream cloth, Judy!!
I love its simplicity and it is very inspiring...
How in the world do you keep things from pouffing out ?
On my present Comfort Cloth (all stitched by hand), I find that things are starting to billow out a bit....after I couched my sari circle on the center..
I also found that my hand stitched corner joinings had to be mended shut !!!--not used to hand work like this one...it is all a learning experience for sure...
hugs, Julierose
your red dream cloth called to mind a wholecloth glazed wool quilt at Colonial Williamsburg https://emuseum.history.org/objects/66774/quilt-pink-worsted-wholecloth?ctx=ce1dc1fa74bf5c803935b764a362ddca8c90440d&idx=99 ... which is described here as pink, but almost surely was red 200+ years ago
Hi Julie 🩷. My circles were a little pouffy in their middles but that went away once I put the completed quilt through the wash and dry cycles of my machine. Washing a quilt with a wool batt created an amazing embedded texture. Thanks for this great question
Thank you Liz for that link to an amazing quilt. I love it and agree with you that the original worsted fabric was probably red that faded to pink. I like it as pink though. I had to mark my design onto the fabric and was anxious to remove the washable marker lines by washing them out. They were worth it however to get the design, thanks very much for your comment.
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