Just came cross The Blogger Quilt Festival. I think this is a nice idea, read more about it by clicking on the icon below.
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So here is my entry for The Blogger Quilt Festival:
nimmermehr quilt "palimpsest"200 mm x 260 mmsilk, yarn, wadding, inkI made this quilt in 2008 and there were many things going on at once. It was an experimental piece, I used different techniques and was very pleased with the way it finally came all together. The quilt was part of my Diploma work and it is in fact part of a series.
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detail
The main theme was
vulnerability. The poem on the right is taken from Goethe's Faust - it is one of the most beautiful poems I know. Gretchen, a young girl, is describing how she feels, when she realizes that she has fallen in love and given her heart away.
I did digital printing on silk, by using my ink jet printer. The poem was actually a scan of a old book page and this is the reason for calling it palimpsest as other words shine through. The image on the left is a scan of an old medical book that used to belong to my great grandmother, who was a midwife.
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I used to do life drawing and transfered one of my drawings onto the fabric by using an ordinary sewing machine to embroider the figure.
While I stiched pieces of fabric together things started to make sense, and I can still see all the thoughts and work that went into it.
Thanks for reading - feel free to leave a comment.
You can see more of my work on my website.
Blog entry about the Quilting workshop in Kosovo here.