Gaudi’s Windows

Lisa Walton March 28, 2022 Light,Lisa Walton,Musings,Revealed Quilts

It was my turn to choose the prompt for this round and I have been saving this idea for such an opportunity.
In keeping with my overall theme of Antoni Gaudi I went through my pictures taken on my last trip to Barcelona. It had been a few years since I had seen Sagrada Familia and instead of scaffolding, the interior was now flooded with light from the magnificent stained glass windows.

After selecting my image I manipulated it in a photo app called VectorQ. I saved two versions – one a vectorisation which posterised it and plotter style which gave me the overlay design I wanted. These two images were printed out full size at my local copy shop.

Although I have a good stash of hand dyed and painted fabrics I still needed some more colourways so I painted them with fabric paint using the original image as a guide

All these fabrics were fused on the back with Mistyfuse which is a soft fusible web which I love.

Then each piece was traced and put in position. I have some large clear teflon sheets which I place over the original image so pieces can be ironed into place. I have to make some pieces larger than the original shape so the next layer has somewhere to stick to.

Once this is done (and it takes quite a while), I open the plotter image in my Silhouette Cameo digital cutter software. I painted Pellon 830 stabiliser with acrylic paint and fused the pieces with Mistyfuse. This is run through the Cameo in sections and then I have the fun task of trying to match up where all the tiny pieces go.

Then comes my favourite part – the quilting. I have a Bernina Q20 which makes quilting a breeze. I quilted around each of the overlay shapes and then the coloured background in a variety of designs.

GAUDI’S WINDOWS
Lisa Walton

33″ x 40″
Hand dyed & hand painted fused fabrics
Raw edge applique
Digitally cut overlay

23 thoughts on “Gaudi’s Windows”

  3. Wow, you did it! Like everyone else, I loved visiting La Sagrada La Familia — and Barcelona in general. I really appreciate how you detail your process. Eventually I’ll catch on to it! The piece is magnificent. Congratulations.

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  4. I feel that La Sagrada de Familia is the most spiritual place outside of the forest. No other cathedral can match it. You have captured the beauty, light and spirituality of the place perfectly. I LOVE this piece!

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  7. Wow! This is amazing. Thanks for sharing
    I am interested in your process. Would you mind explaining the use of the pellon? When you say acrylic paint, is that fabric paint? These are the black pieces for the stained glass?

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    1. I paint the pellon with cheap student quality paint. It gives it additional stability to run it through the cutter. All the black pieces are the pellon

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  8. When I saw this yesterday it took my breath away. It is stunning and the colors talk to me. The process had to have been fun from the beginning. I have a stained glass window from a church in Rio I have been wanting to do something with and you have inspired me.

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  9. I saw this beautiful piece of art posted on Facebook and I had to read your blog. Thank you for detailing the process you use to create your artwork. It is fascinating.

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      1. I found these on Amazon. Unfortunately they are expensive and took forever to get here. I really wanted bigger/wider widths but it was all I could find.

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  11. I have been simply intrigued by not only the beauty of this five piece series so far, Lisa, but the complexity and design work that goes into each composition… carefully planned, so intricate the placed bits and pieces, and the colours… stunning!

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