Who am I? This month’s journal quilt is a self-portrait. I started by combing through my fabric stash and scraps to find fabrics that expressed something about me. Then I took a photo of my face into Photoshop and played with effects until I found something I thought I could reproduce in fabric. I crazy-quilted the different fabrics onto a piece of muslin. Then I added the face and few other appliqués. Each of the appliqués is machine outlined with a different stitch, but you can’t see them all in the picture. My machine doesn’t have any decorative stitches, or I would have gone crazy on this one. I may still do some hand embroidery on it to dress it up a bit.There is one thing about me represented in this piece that I forgot to include in the description on the back. I have one piece of dark brown fabric (behind the cross) that represents chocolate. I didn’t have any fabric with chocolate on it, so I just had to go with the color!
10 comments:
Definitely a great page for your journal! I think a person could look at it and see what is important to you. Nice job!
Oh Becky, I LOVE IT. You've included so much information about you in such a small space. It's wonderful.
What a wonderful journal page. It's nicely designed and very interesting. I also likes your writeup on the back very much. Next I'm going to read about your jungle trip, with photos!
Great job Becky! Your face superimposed on the background has a wonderful pop art feel, and yet it's very personal. Nice job!
Fantastic self portrait. Love what you did with your photo and the fabrics tell a great story. One of my favorite self portrait quilts.
Well, pretty much what everyone else has said! I love the almost symbolic revelation of self and the "pop art" face!
Becky, It really is a wonderful piece. The only thing missing is a spider! I was browsing through your jungle blog. Yikes, I am so arachniphobic! I love living in Alaska, spiders are very small here. I'd never go to the bathroom again if I found a tarantula in there!
This is a very wonderful journal page. It tells us so much about you.
This is great! I think you did a great job with the photo. and it is so interesting seeing all the fabrics that speak of you.
very creative!
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