Work in progress – 2016.01.21

I haven’t posted since the beginning of January, but I have been busy with a variety of quilting-related projects.  Here’s one of them.

Earlier this month, I visited my sister Anne in Victoria BC, and we spent a couple of days working on our current collaborative project – ‘WATER: an Element’.

We actually started working on this in April 2015, but we were both busy with other projects, and didn’t get back to it until this month.

Here’s our starting point, a sketch I drew last year.  We’ve changed our minds about what fabrics we will use, but we’re still using our original design.  The center piece is either a river or a waterfall – we haven’t decided yet.  Anne had a long piece of hand-dyed chiffon that is perfect for that section.  On one side we are going to piece and applique fabrics that represent calm waters – ponds, lakes, etc.  On the other side will be fabrics representing active waters – oceans, waves, etc.  We made a full-size freezer-paper pattern and cut it into the 3 sections.  This will allow us to each work on sections alone, and know that they will fit together when finished.

Anne is working on the center section.  She is going to manipulate the chiffon to make it dimensional and add tulle for foam, as well as other embellishments.   I have one of the side sections to start piecing and appliqueing.

(If you’d like to read about our first collaborative project – ‘FIRE: an Element’ you can find the most recent post about it here.)

Thanks for stopping by.  Today, I’m linking up with these blogs – click on the links below, where you’ll find many other creative projects to inspire you.