A Little Tradition with My Contemporary Art

My quilts are contemporary in style and constructed with contemporary materials and techniques. But I always like to include some traditional elements into my designs even though they may not have been done in a traditional way.  For example...

traditional  designs on a painted quilt (in this case the hexagons)



My current works in progress are no different.  For the small , simplified version of my next show quilt (which will become my MQS 2013 auction quilt) I am making the moon from fused silk organza hexagons.  I drafted my pattern  in one of my vector drawing programs and printed my hexagon template from there. Here is a screen shot...



Pretty simple but effective.  I cut my pieces and got them all fused last week... just as I finished I found an email from Greta advertising a hexagon sphere pattern. She calls it Flower Ball.  It was so cool I bought it.  Not for this quilt, but just because it is so cool. Why is it so cool you ask?...because when she drew her design, she skewed her shapes and sizes. It really gives the illusion of  a free floating sphere!   Much better than mine! Be sure to click the link above and check it out.

Anyway, back to my version  after fusing...



I still like it, but I think I'll be doing something  with Greta's pattern in the future...maybe even hand piecing it (gasp!) ;)