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Monday 28 February 2011

Madrone - aka Tree Structure

This quilt is inspired by the bark of the Madrone tree, featured in the book "Bark" by Cedric Pollet, a fabulous gift from my friend Deborah Kemball. When I received the book, I immediately knew that a quilt would result, and "structure" was the perfect theme. Who knew that tree bark could be so beautiful? Using my own hand dyed textured fabrics, I reverse appliqued the different layers, then machine quilted the piece.

9 comments:

  1. Love it, Marion. I was given the book for Christmas and almost every page is a quilt crying out to be made. The colours are wonderful.

    Hilary

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  2. A great quilt from a fascinating book - it looks great Helena.

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  3. It is amazing to me that something so organic can also imply structure, or rather "de-structure".

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  4. Trees lend themselves to so many forms of art, and yours inspires me to dig out all my old photos of bark.

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  5. have also seen this great piece in the flesh! another terrifc interpretation by helena. so abstract and yet not - great use of color and stitch. i love it dear!

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  6. A clever interpretation of tree bark. I too own this book and drool over the images, but had not been able to work out a satisfactory way to translate those images to fabric!

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  7. When I saw the book reviewed I knew I had to send it to you and now you know why! A gorgeous piece of work. Perfect.

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  8. Trees and their bark talk to me! Great interpretation.

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  9. The colors and the texture draw me into the piece looking for more surprises. Thank you for sharing your interpretation of the cover photo of this amazing book!

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