Goal: Connect the 3 individual fern prints in a way that makes them a comfortable, natural threesome. Can we say Three Musketeers? All for one and one for all?
The first idea came so easily it seemed like a gimme: Combine fabrics from the adjacent prints to fill the gaps in height. I like the simplicity of the check and the fusion it creates. The next challenge took a bit more. I needed a fabric that would bridge each of the pairs of adjacent prints and I wanted a commercial fabric — no more painting for me. I found the first one in my stash. It’s a piece of Jane Sassaman-designed fabric that a friend gave me a quarter yard of. Lucky me. I cut two 2″ strips and pieced it in.
The second fabric was not in my studio but at the second store I went to.
And here is the completed top:
This is the 3rd quilt I will have created using the woodwardia fern — see the first 2 in my Art Quilt Gallery. This top measures 50″ x 67″ — my largest art quilt to date. It was not planned at all that the quilts would have 1, 2 and then 3 prints in them, it just happened that way. A bit of serendipity I’m enjoying. But I digress.
I’ve been thinking for some time about how I would quilt this piece. My riff on 3 will continue. Stay tuned.
it has a fun and contemporary look…what are your thoughts on the thread lines/quilting?
Karen! How lovely to hear from you. I’m going to continue my riff on 3….I’m marking sections now and will be auditioning thread next. I’m thinking silk to start….we’ll see! Check back with me in a week and you’ll see some progress here.
love the colors, been playing with leaves from the garden also..
Absolutely lovely!
I like the idea of pursuing a riff.
Earlier it had been Gingko, but the combinations of the fern print with such dynamic colours really has great WOW factor.
Keep on riffing lady!