Gaudi’s Columns

Lisa Walton January 28, 2022 Building,Lisa Walton,Revealed Quilts

Keeping with my current theme of inspiration of Antoni Gaudi I was thrilled with the Building Prompt. My only problem was which building to select.

Parc Guell is a privatised park system composed of gardens and architectural elements in Barcelona. With urbanisation in mind Eusebi Guell assigned the design to Gaudi. It was built from 1900 to 1914 and was officially opened as a public park in 1926. In 1984 UNESCO declared the park a World Heritage Site.

The park was originally part of a commercially unsuccessful housing site but only two buildings were built. The focal point of the park is the main terrace, surrounded by a long bench in the form of a sea serpent. Under this terrace is a series of columns and ceiling mosaics which were the inspiration for this quilt.

Original Image
Vectorised Image
Plotter Image
The (purchased) image was manipulated in Photoshop Elements & Vector Q to create two distinct layers.
Hand painted fabrics
Fabrics positioned
The fabrics were hand painted and all fused with Mistyfuse and then the shapes were individually traced and positioned
Once the first layer was done the plotter image was imported into the Silhouette Cameo 4 digital cutter and the pieces were placed into position
Some of the threads used
Echo quilting
Quilted mosaic
Quilting was done on a Bernina Q20 using a selection of threads

Gaudi’s Columns
– 58″ x 40″
– Hand painted fabrics
– Raw edge applique
– Free motion quilted

7 thoughts on “Gaudi’s Columns”

  3. this is pretty beautiful, and amazingly done. How would you have approached it if you didn’t have the use of any technology, like photoshop etc and do you think it would have taken much longer to plan and make. It would be interesting to know

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