Textile work-- It's been so long.... Quilts from the past, long forms phase....

I have done quite a few densely quilted quilts & quite a few with long linear forms.
I called this one Journeys.


           

I love the look & feel of dense linear quilting!
The next work I called Indigo Braiding.
I tightly braided three strips of white cloth & dip-dyed them several times in indigo. After the braid was dry the braid was opened and the strips sewn together to make a single central piece.
The side panels were thinner braids, less dyed.

This one is Giacometti Gestures... those long sculptures of his!!
        

Then came Miro's Moves.
  

In the one below I used offcuts from Maiwa's dress-making.
The partial ovals are armholes' offcuts.
The colors came from a favorite spring-time shrub.


Below: Red Veins [bleed] You can't see the bleeding, but I had to wash this quilt and some of the red veins red spread out!


11 Suits on a Green Field


A very densely quilted piece  I call Chickens & Chicken Scratches, but no linear forms.



The chicken scratches were sewn when I was blindfold & with my left hand!!!
All of the chickens were created in a stitching class with Dorothy Caldwell.
You can really appreciate the ripple effects of dense quilting.

Two quilts experimenting a bit with transparent cloth &long forms. oops!! the one below is upside down!! See my name on the upper edge?
     

Three final ones
Two inspired by colors & forms of oriental carpets.
I dyed the cloth for these.




And one in the same zone as 11 suits....

That's it for now.