This photo was taken many years ago by my first husband, who was an excellent photographer. He had a way of printing the pictures that made all the shadow areas go completely black--I was not actually posing in a dark room. Yes, that's me! This piece is being framed right now, it is quite small--the entire quilt is only about 16 inches by 20 inches. I did something new--I covered the pieced photos with a layer of hand dyed silk mesh fabric that I bought at the SFQG quilt show in Feb. just for this quilt. The silk has some variations of color (mostly red) that you can see in this picture--the photos underneath are more evenly black.
4 comments:
This is wonderful, I really like it, wonder if I could have that done? Hmm...
Yes, it could be a lot of fun! Immortalize your body before it gets any older :-)
marina, this piece is wonderful AND I really like it without a border.
have you given thought to no borders on your photo pieces?
Yes, I have started to do some pieces without borders and also without any binding--that seems to be the new trend in art quilts. It is a bit tougher--I have to stop the machine quilting about a half inch from the edge, fold the edges inside, then finish quilting. On one piece, I left about an inch of edge and folded it to the back, folding the raw edge under. In that case, I did not have enough fabric on the photos, so I had to sew a piece on to the edge, just to have enough to sew to the back.
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