Sonia Crabb
CAUGHT IN THE NET
Inspiration
At Festival of Quilts 2019, I loved the quilts from Eszter Bornemisza and sought to incorporate her ‘nets’ into my work. Since patchwork and quilting are essentially a process of putting fragments together to create new pieces of work.
The idea of ‘catching’ pieces of patchwork in a net brought these two ideas together and ‘Caught in the Net’ is the result.
Materials and techniques
The background is machine pieced patchwork silk which I have screen and block printed with nets of various proportions before machine quilting ‘nets’ too.
The foreground ‘net’ was created by machine stitching a grid on ‘Trick Film’. Hand-pieced fragments of a log cabin patchwork were then added and after ironing to partially melt the film and create the gaps trapped.
The layers were in turn quilted together by hand ties with beads.
Click on image to enlarge
At Festival of Quilts 2019, I loved the quilts from Eszter Bornemisza and sought to incorporate her ‘nets’ into my work. Since patchwork and quilting are essentially a process of putting fragments together to create new pieces of work.
The idea of ‘catching’ pieces of patchwork in a net brought these two ideas together and ‘Caught in the Net’ is the result.
Materials and techniques
The background is machine pieced patchwork silk which I have screen and block printed with nets of various proportions before machine quilting ‘nets’ too.
The foreground ‘net’ was created by machine stitching a grid on ‘Trick Film’. Hand-pieced fragments of a log cabin patchwork were then added and after ironing to partially melt the film and create the gaps trapped.
The layers were in turn quilted together by hand ties with beads.
Click on image to enlarge