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Yellow Tulips
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Yellow Tulips

We have just revealed our new challenge on Latitudequilts, and this is my contribution. Our challenge this time is Art Deco.

Tulips are such elegant flowers, simple in shapes and in so many
wonderful colours. And since Art Deco is very simplified, it was a
perfect match for my personal challenge, tulips. Looking through images
from my garden, I settled on the one I used in an earlier challenge,
LOVE, and used it as a template for raw edge applique, with hand dyed
cotton.
As a background, I used something that reminded me of
radioes from the 1930s, freehand cut and pieced commersial fabrics, on
top of pale green linen.

 
 The quilting in the background is simply straight lines, the tulips are free hand machinequilted, with French knots.
I am also working on my last textile book with  Ineke Berlyn, I’ll show you as soon as it is finished. 

Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year!

2015 is already more than a week old, I’ve used this first week to finish some Journalquilts from 2014:
First November, inspired by the art of Michael Morgan:

The colours were chosen because November can be rather dark and wet here in Bergen. Some close-ups:

December was made by a photo I took at Skarvhamran, Skjerstad, last summer. I made it in black and white, to give it a wintery look:

 And some close-ups:

I am not satisfied with the edge of the hillside in the foreground, maybe I have to put on some Markal shadings there as well.

I have not made any resolutions for 2015, and working full time in NRK as well, I will just try to be   as creative as posssible with the little time I have. But I have signed up for Ineke Berlyn’s Art textile books online. I love her online courses, they give me a chance to try something new

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November is come and gone too quickly. And it ended with revealing our last challenge with Latitudequilts, Escape. At first glance, this was an interesting theme. But, when I started working with it, I had problems how to solve it as a quilt. I decided to go abstract, focusing on this:
Escape = an act of breaking free from confinement or control.
We live in a world where, in certain environments, being «out of the box» is not always a good thing. You have to fit in. So, I’ve tried to show this by breaking it all down to squares – in rows – with military precision, except for the one escaping and blooming. Because these people are sometimes regarded like a weed, like a dandelion. They are strong, beautiful, full of colour, they have freed themselves from the rules of the garden and pop up wherever they want! 


And a close up:



November har gått altfor fort, og den sluttet med presentasjonen av vår siste utfordring, Escape. Ved første øyekast virket dette som et spennende tema, men etter hvert fikk jeg problemer med å løse det som en quilt. Så jeg bestemte meg for å gå abstrakt, med fokus på definisjonen:
Flukt = å bryte fri fra fangenskap eller kontroll.
Vi lever i en verden der, i visse miljøer, det å være annerledes ikke alltid er av det gode. Vi må passe inn for enhver pris. Så, jeg prøvde å bryte det hele ned til firkanter – på rekke – med militær presisjon, med untak av en som bryter ut og blomstrer. Disse menneskene blir ofte sett på som ugress, som en løvetann. De er sterk, vakker og full av farge, de har frigitt seg fra hagens regelverk og dukker opp der de har lyst!