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Showing posts with label Nana Girl Portrait. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nana Girl Portrait. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Keeping Me Company

My little self portrait that I made in a class with Roberta Horton in 2005 is done and hanging in my little sitting room.  Yay!!!
Here is the little quilt that used to hang in this spot.  In 2008 I made a series of New York Beauty quilts.  This is a smaller version of one that I couldn't bear to sell, so I made one for me. 
I had the early morning sun coming in the windows, so the colors kept changing as I took pictures. But instead of looking at this now...
I'm looking at this.  So different and so much fun!!
I debated on how to quilt the inside of this, I started with little swirls.  It was very busy and didn't add anything to the overall look, so of course, I ripped it out.  I decided to just do wavy freestyle straight lines.  I think it sets off the chaos of the inner border blocks and the outer border fabric.

This picture actually captures the colors the best.
I decided to do a continuous line quilting in the blocks and just followed the design of the fabric for the border.  This is one time I wanted the fabric to show and not the quilting.

So as I'm writing this from my chair, this is what I see.  It's going to hang here for a while I think.  So again, thank you Roberta.  I am so glad my little "Nana Girl" has come to keep me company.
Hope you're having a great Wednesday.
-Karen