Well, you can't use all your scrap corduroy replicating famous works of art, of course. Here's a quick face I made with other pieces from my Big Birthday Box o'Corduroy.
Like a lot of my quilts it's an "original design" that I doodled out on scratch paper -- but, since it's so simple, I'm sure that tens of thousands of other people have had the same idea before me. Probably it's a traditional quilt pattern with a long-established name. Possibly you are itching to tell me what its name is in the comments, even now.
Kind of a handsome one, I think. It's officially designated StormQuilt #11.
Speaking of How Hard It Is to Do Something Original...
I've been walking around all week feeling I was possibly the cleverest person ever born to have thought of replicating an abstract painting with scrap fabric. Well, of course I'm not the first person to think of that. It turns out, in fact, that frequent commentor Jovaliquilts' daughter did the same thing for her first ever quilt. Also, Jovali Jr. did a better job than me of matching the colors of her original (although, to be fair to myself, I guess I wasn't really worried about color matching).
Here is Jovali Jr.'s quilt....
and Here is the painting she replicated, Ellsworth Kelly's Colors for a Large Wall.
2 comments:
So do you WANT to be told the name of the pattern. It's Broken Dishes (which is basically Pinwheels) on point - don't know if there's another name for it when it's set on point. I like it! Sorry my first comment had type-os. Oops. So embarassing.
No you are not alone...
http://thesillyboodilly.blogspot.com/2009/03/channeling-josef-albers.html
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