I'm useless when it comes to ideas about binding, you know. This, "there's a row of triangles/strip that goes into it just over half way up, where you have three turquoise triangles on the left, two greenish triangles on the right, and a fairly subtle medium/dark blue for the rest of the strip. That fabric might work," I'd assumed was pieced. It seems to me you need to ask yourself how well-defined a *frame* you want for this quilt, because binding or borders do act as a frame, visually. Do you want the quilt to allow the viewer "zero entry," as they say of swimming pools without a distinct rim or edge but where you begin by stepping into the outer edges of a puddle (in the shallow end, of course?) That allows the viewer to drift in an out. Do you want something clearly defined, even "walled off" from the rest of the environment, something which has its own unmistakable space in your visual space or in the viewer's visual space, so that entering or leaving the view of the quilt is like entering or leaving a building with a doorman or an actual *guard?* A barrier you have to pass to 'get into' the work of art? Or something less formidable, more like a garden gate with no lock: you have to open it in order to enter or leave the garden (it closes automatically behind you), but you can do it easily and you can just as easily leave the space that is the garden, yet you're aware of leaving; it just doesn't feel so abrupt a transition as the "walled off" experience, immediately above?
As for the threads, I think on the shell I'd look for a "low contrast" which would provide texture because of the stitching (it does make slight, subtle 'ditches'), without shrieking "Here I am! Look at me!" Not stark white, but perhaps a pale beige? A sand color? In the water/sand area, I being the person I am, would go all or nothing: either threads which blended very closely with the colors of the fabric they're being used on, or threads which made themselves very obvious by their high contrast against the colors of the fabrics they're being used on. Until we get to the border area, and then I'd be looking for "equal value," something as light or as dark, but not necessarily a matching *color.* Hope that makes some sense.... This hasn't been a good weekend for e-communication, so far. ):^(
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branchandroot
Re: Quilting Water Ripples
Date: 26 Feb 2011 04:38 pm (UTC)I'm useless when it comes to ideas about binding, you know.
This, "there's a row of triangles/strip that goes into it just over half way up, where you have three turquoise triangles on the left, two greenish triangles on the right, and a fairly subtle medium/dark blue for the rest of the strip. That fabric might work," I'd assumed was pieced.
It seems to me you need to ask yourself how well-defined a *frame* you want for this quilt, because binding or borders do act as a frame, visually. Do you want the quilt to allow the viewer "zero entry," as they say of swimming pools without a distinct rim or edge but where you begin by stepping into the outer edges of a puddle (in the shallow end, of course?) That allows the viewer to drift in an out.
Do you want something clearly defined, even "walled off" from the rest of the environment, something which has its own unmistakable space in your visual space or in the viewer's visual space, so that entering or leaving the view of the quilt is like entering or leaving a building with a doorman or an actual *guard?* A barrier you have to pass to 'get into' the work of art?
Or something less formidable, more like a garden gate with no lock: you have to open it in order to enter or leave the garden (it closes automatically behind you), but you can do it easily and you can just as easily leave the space that is the garden, yet you're aware of leaving; it just doesn't feel so abrupt a transition as the "walled off" experience, immediately above?
As for the threads, I think on the shell I'd look for a "low contrast" which would provide texture because of the stitching (it does make slight, subtle 'ditches'), without shrieking "Here I am! Look at me!" Not stark white, but perhaps a pale beige? A sand color?
In the water/sand area, I being the person I am, would go all or nothing: either threads which blended very closely with the colors of the fabric they're being used on, or threads which made themselves very obvious by their high contrast against the colors of the fabrics they're being used on.
Until we get to the border area, and then I'd be looking for "equal value," something as light or as dark, but not necessarily a matching *color.*
Hope that makes some sense.... This hasn't been a good weekend for e-communication, so far. ):^(