Showing posts with label low key. Show all posts
Showing posts with label low key. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Low-Key in Reverse

Looking at a lot of these "Low Volume" quilts reminds me they are very "low key" which is low intensity in terms of brightness, but the other thing that struck me was that the fabrics in these quilts all had white or cream backgrounds.  I made a quilt years ago from fabrics with all black backgrounds. It was great fun. I used about 32 different fabrics, and included lots of novelties. It's kind of a low-volume quilt in reverse.
The quilt is made from 2-1/2" squares, 4-1/2" squares and 2-1/2" x 4-1/2" and 4-1/2" x 6-1/2" rectangles arranged arbitrarily.

I wanted the colors to dance across the surface. I wanted it to look abstract, and then I wanted the viewer to discover all the different fabrics.

You can read about how I made it here.