Friday 28 February 2014

Contrast - Striped flowers


Contrast - use of black and white, use of vertical and horizontal stripes

I wanted to try out a new idea with my black and white stripes-- flower shapes with tiny flashes of colour together with matching vertical coloured lines of quilting. I have 2 larger pieces in mind that might use these flowers with the colour additions. I am fascinated with the optical illusions one can produce with stripes and small additions of colour.

Now for confession time- I cut my original piece of striped fabric as a 12 inch square intending to cut it back to a 10 inch square. Probably harking back to another challenge I was involved in. However I was able to salvage an 11 inch finished piece... not the 12 inch required for this group.

6 comments:

  1. A fascinating piece. I really like the small touches of colour as well as those small circles of patterned fabric at the centre of each flower.

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  2. Very nice and so fitting with your other optical illusion quilts.

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  3. Visually very stimulating!Love the little touches of colour.

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  4. This is great! Reminds me of those pages you stare at and a picture of some kind appears. This time it is flowers. And the little splashes of color add to it.

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  5. lovely and well done!!

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  6. This is so visually exciting.

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