mo's journey

Thursday, 6 June 2013

Hi,

It's been a while...
I am currently working on module 7 (!). I have to start my first exam piece which I have designed and it has been approved. Now all that's left is the making.....
I'm aiming to be done in about a month, before the kiddos are home for the holidays because than it'll be very hard to get time and space to concentrate on all the machine quilting that I need to do.
But first things first, I need to go and buy black cotton and thread and make my templates.
this is the design...

Now all that's left to do is make it....

Friday, 15 February 2013

module 3, colour

So far module 3 has been my favorite, partly because I used my favourite artist, Hundertwasser, as inspiration. I love the bright, sometimes clashing colours.
Wish I could find materials that are as bright as his paintings but so far not much luck. I'm sure they are available in the UK somewhere, I just need to discover where so if anyone has any suggestions, please drop me a line.
Anyway, here's some of my design work from this module.

Hundertwasser in tone


Hundertwasser in water colours

detail

Elizabeth Kendall

resolved design

Moniek's doodle

detail

resolved design

illuminated letters coloured pencil

illuminated letters 2b pencil

illuminated letters marker

detail

resolved design in marker

resolved design in coloured pencil

Monday, 4 February 2013

Luton Arts 2012

sideways...

detail

close up

Uganda dreams

detail

close up

I entered some work in a local art competition and I was lucky enough to have my work selected to be exhibited for 3 months in a local museum.

module 2, shape

Hi,
it's me again. I'll try and upload some work from my second module which was about shape.
I will try and make a mix between design work and quilting block.
And by the way, the theme was industrial. my first response was "What..." but after doing some sketches in pencil based on images I think I got the hang of it.

Satellite sketch

Marker, tinfoil and permanent marker


Quilt block of satellite

This module was a lot about foundation piecing, a technique that I don't really like because it has a lot to do with doing things in reverse, lefts and rights. I am quite pleased that I managed to come up with some blocks that ended up looking the way I expected them to come out.

foundation piecing design


foundation piecing block

Here are some more designs I developed, i hope to get back to some of these at a later stage and turn them into textile designs.

this was a clock mechanism..

outlined and coloured

based on a watermill

based on a watch

I also used a street dance clip as inspiration for some of my work. I made a mini movie (sorry, no idea on how to upload this) and ended up with some designs from it.

some images from my mini movie

design from my mini movie

This is the link to the clip I used as inspiration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRRnAhmB58

I also had to create a rotary cut block and a curved block for this module

rotary cut block (30x30cm)

curved block

Wednesday, 30 January 2013

quilting blocks module 1

And last but not least the quilting blocks I needed to make for module one. It was not so easy to work with a pattern again as I am more used to sort of design/work as I go without having all these more or less exact measurements. Luckily I found my rulers, dusted them of and put them into action...