Hello everyone!
Today's my turn with the Art with Fabric Blog Hop.The hop is hosted by Alida from Tweety Loves Quilting - you can go to her site to see all the amazing art created by those who joined in.
Our brief was - to make a quilt or fabric/fiber object inspired by a specific piece of art.
The theme is: My favourite colour.
I chose Greens as my favourite colour and then more specifically - Turquoise.
The pinks just seemed to add a little punch, so why not....
This time around I chose the artist MC Escher. A Dutch graphic artist (1898 - 1972).
His work with Tessellations really fascinates me. I love geometrics that form a secondary pattern too, so tessellations seemed to be a great fit.
A tessellation is a 'tiling using one or more shape with no overlaps or gaps'. Its usually a repeating pattern.
This is MC Escher's 'Horseman'
Totally awesome!!
Here is the "Penguins" image that I used from Escher, to make my tessellation project. I had to first find the original square or the repeat and make a pattern to work from.
and here is my Penguins mugrug (10" - 26cm) and is really easy to sew. I used up every piece of Turquoise scrap that I had. The pattern also includes a 'mirror' image where you can then make one or a block of them.
You can download a copy of the Penguins HERE....<<<<
I'll leave it up for the rest of the week.
I'll leave it up for the rest of the week.
I also made myself a 16" (42cm) tessellation of this 'Johns Tessellation'.
The line-up for today's Blog Hop is:
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018
- Janeen: http://quiltartdesigns.
blogspot.com/......You are here now. - Carol: http://www.quiltedfabricart.
com - Andrée: http://quiltinglearningcombo.
blogspot.com
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I've started a QA Designs Group on Facebook where you are welcome to join and add any of your finished blocks made with the QADesigns patterns. I really love to see them all.
(when you open the shop.... click on the right side 'sort by tab' and press NEWEST.... then everything will show up)
18 comments:
Your penguins are awesome, Janeen. Thank you for sharing the pattern with us as well. You are so generous - thank you.
Ronelle
I find tessellations very interesting and your penguins are fabulous! Thanks for sharing.
I really like MC Escher and your take is wonderful! Love the penguins!
I've never tried a tessellation quilt, but your little penguins are very cute!
I have been fascinated with these patterns since I saw a Jinny Beyer one, a long long time ago! Tessellating penguins couldn’t be any cuter and certainly inspired by MC Escher.
Those penguins are adorable. Thank you for generously offering the pattern.
I love tessellations, too! Great penguin design.
I love your penguins. There is a exposicion of M.C.Escher work in Lisbon, Portugal. It is great. I love his work also.
Very nice!!! Thanks for the pattern. I'll have to sew one or two. You are very creative.
I'm always impressed with what you do, but wow, Escher? Really amazing! Both pieces are wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing your process.
Cool. I love Escher's work. Thanks for the pattern.
Escher is such a fascinating inspiration, and you did a great job with both of your designs!! They are very creative and so much your style!! And I love your color choice too!! Thanks for participating in the blog hop!!
Oh that so cool! I wanted to do him a couple years ago but couldn’t come up with an original tessellation. You did a great job doing just that. Bravo! ❤️❤️
Oh that so cool! I wanted to do him a couple years ago but couldn’t come up with an original tessellation. You did a great job doing just that. Bravo! ❤️❤️
What a stunning design. I love it. Thanks for sharing.
Lovely little mug rug. Thanks for sharing :) MelvaLovesScraps at nolanqualitycustoms dot com
Hi Janeen, your pieces are really interesting. I'm so glad to have learned about tessellations.
I love mc Escher! Once had a book with cutouts for mskmak fun paper balls so of, some twisted around..
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