Don't most problems start out that way?!
In my Practical Design workshop, our challenge for the month is to work with texture. One of the things I decided to try was to use quilting texture to define the main design with negative space.
And that got me thinking about using letters or a word... which led me to play with one of my favorite sayings, "Leap and the net will appear."
I was mainly going to just define the word "LEAP" with close quilting around it. Dense stippling, I thought. But then I thought that stippling is a bit too predictable, and I thought about trying to quilt something net-like.
I practiced a bit, and started in...
And it occurs to me that this is going to take a lot of stitching.
Luckily, this is small. And I'm just playing. So I'll go as far as I can go without hating it and then see where I am.
In the immortal words of Buckaroo Banzai, "Wherever you go, there you are." The net quilting is very appropriate.
ReplyDeleteI love that saying - what a cute piece! You could do the "net" quilting over just part of it to look like a net under the saying (or you theoretically could...I definitely couldn't :))
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ReplyDeleteI actually like the idea of just a partial net..as if it is just appearing. As it stands right now even! with maybe some echo quilting to define the letters but just a bit. Karen
me again, the netting right in the middle of Leap actually emphasizes the idea of leaping...just my opinion.
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