Let Me Go Round In Circles
I’ve been thinking of the pattern to use for the next quilt in the series, the one for my great grandmother Cassie Hodgman. I have been thinking of some variation of the interlocking circles pattern. So I’ve had circles in my head.
Today I made a stencil (drawing on what I learned from my workshop back in June – thank you David A. Clark!) and started doing some printing to work through some ideas. Here are two of my favorites:
It was a ridiculously hot day to be in the studio printing over a hot palette with melted wax but it was what was in my head and there was nothing for it. I found myself taking frequent breaks to go sit away from the heat and do some reading. I read up on trapunto quilting. In trapunto quilting extra batting or stuffing is put into some sections of the quilting to give it extra height or dimension. Looking at the bumble bee quilt pattern (the one for my great, great aunt Lib that I had been planning to do as a trapunto quilt) I think it will be too detailed to do in paper in trapunto (again less give than fabric). With my reading I’ve gotten my head around how to do the technique with the prints, I just need to keep to a fairly simple pattern. Something like the interlocking circles.
Here is an amazing example of a trapunto quilt from the Victoria and Albert Museum. It is known as the “The Tristan Quilt”. It tells the story of Tristan and Isolde, is made of quilted linen padded with cotton wadding with outlines in brown and white linen thread. It dates from 1360-1400, the maker is unknown though it’s origin is Sicily.
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