Quilt Number Two
While I’m waiting for me to make up my mind about Quilt 1′s border I picked the inspiration quilt for my second art quilt. I am going to make a quilt based on Liz Axford’s Emotions & Abstractions 2.
The quilt in Liz Axford’s words:
From 1917 to 1923 Frank Lloyd Wright designed a group of “Textile Block” houses built from concrete blocks cast with low-relief patterns. This inspiration came from watching Chinese weavers make rug. Wright designed for the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. My Emotions & Abstractions series began with the block Wright designed and had custom-fabricated for the Millard House in Pasadena, CA (1923). After slightly modifying the block and altering the “set” of blocks, I had a pattern I could work with. I then immersed myself in the subtle patterning an colors of my hand-dyed fabrics.
Here’s a slide show of the house: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-home24-2008aug24-pg,0,6398273.photogallery
This one will be much more free than the first quilt. I’m not doing any pre-designing but I am using Axford’s design, so I guess in theory it is pre-designed. I’ve been wanting to make an improvisational quilt ala Denyse Schmidt for a while now so this inspiration quilt is good incentive.
I don’t have many hand-dyed fabrics so I’m using batiks:
