Geri deGruy's blog of art, musings, and inspiration

First off, I apologize for such long gaps between posts lately. I've been out of town with little time to write. I'm sorry! I'll try to do better.

I'm in Indiana with my sister Les. She is a traditional quilt maker, piecing large quilts mostly for beds. Her scrap bag is huge and so are the scraps! I culled a large pile to take home with me and sorted out this collection for the first creation.

It's a bit hard to see, but there is a group of whites with grey and black scattered in the mix. I chose black, white and a touch of red and gold as my color palette. Because they are scraps, there is very little of some of the fabrics so that will inform the piece too. 

Almost always, it's a color mix, or a luscious fabric which inspires me to begin a piece. If I find a gorgeous fabric which is also yummy to the touch, I'll put everything aside to work with it.

I start off by gathering my fabrics, my palette. Of course I will add and subtract as I go, but this is a start. There are many ways to begin an art quilt...sketching a design, graphing your plans, deciding on a goal for the piece... but I find that this is what usually gets me started. COLOR!

I haven't had a lot of sewing time, but this is the beginning of the art quilt with the above fabrics.

The blue in the background is just the carpet on which I took the photo. It made the white stand out.

Almost every piece is cut on a curve. I'll share more about that in the next post. xoxoxox