Design Concept

Scribble #1 began with a free-form scribble, hand-drawn with a stylus directly on the touch screen of my Surface Design computer. Using a trace program, I turned the spaces between the lines into closed shapes and filled them with bitmaps from a photograph of a 60” x 96” fabric I hand painted twenty years ago. I moved the images around within the shapes, rotating, mirror-imaging, stretching and shrinking, until I liked the way it looked. I designed binding strips, blending the colors along the edges, and sent a bitmap of the whole composition to Spoonflower to be printed. The quilting was done with many different colors of polyester and acrylic thread, echoing the shapes of the scribble, with an occasional spiral thrown in.

Exhibitions:

• Color Play, Peninsula Fiber Artists, Fifth Avenue Gallery, Sequim, WA, April 1-29, 2024

Publications

• None as of 04/08/2024